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Sam Fox recently opened his first ever bar concept, Pushing Daisies, in downtown Nashville. The underground margarita bar offers around 100 different tequilas and “a reprieve off Broadway.” Here's a look inside and how Fox crafted the concept.

The gourmet food hall is currently home to over a dozen restaurant concepts including Notorious P.O.K.E. which opened in October and Hiro Sushi which opened in August.

Cannabis Innovation Lab aims to solve some of the industry's challenges with technology.

The restaurant will open for breakfast, lunch and feature a late night menu.

The first location will open in early 2023.

Bob Baumann is president of Edward Baumann Clothiers in Addison, a custom menswear store he opened more than three decades ago. We talked to Baumann for our statewide podcast Texas Business Minds about his career, his growing business, and the big bets he’s made in his life, including a recently announced $11 million development in Addison that’ll be opening next May.

Here are some excerpts from the interview:

On the days of selling sets of ties from office to office in downtown Dallas:

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The restaurant remains busy, the owner says, but one partner is ready to retire. Plus, an Indian restaurant in Elmwood Village holds its soft opening; and a former golf clubhouse in Lockport will be reborn as an event center.

The Minnesota Timberwolves and Lynx announced on Monday that Post cereals will become the official cereal of the organization.

The agreement includes cereal brands like Fruity Pebbles, Honeycomb, and Honey Bunches of Oats, all of which are inclusive of the Wolves and Lynx partnership with the brand. Those cereals are products of Lakeville-based Post Consumer Brands, which is a unit of St. Louis-based Post Holdings Inc. (NYSE: POST).

According to a Monday press release, the partnership includes…

Although Hawaiian Bros is focused on sustainable growth, it’s aiming big with its new franchising model. Vice President of Franchise Development Grant Kreutzer details where the restaurant chain, which recently expanded into St. Louis, is headed.

Track 7 Brewing Co. is permanently closing its East Sacramento taproom, but locally owned University of Beer is already lined up to fill the space.

Track 7 opened the site at 5090 Folsom Blvd. four years ago. It initially included a kitchen with a fast-casual format, which switched to a prix fixe setup earlier this year. Operators then stopped serving food before a Peruvian rotisserie called The Jazzy Bird took over the kitchen at the site.

“We’ve decided that it is time to return to our roots…