Here's somewhat encouraging news in discouraging times. Although “at least eight people were laid off this year from the company's office in Woodland Hills”, according to an article in the LA Times, about a dozen Daily Grill executives — whose annual salaries range from $100,000 to $350,000 — are going to take a 10% pay cut, effective immediately, instead of resorting to more lay-offs.
Before becoming an award-winning restaurant critic for OC Weekly in 2007, Edwin Goei went by the alias “elmomonster” on his blog Monster Munching, in which he once wrote a whole review in haiku.