Local breweries learned a lot too. Their pivots and cross-stitches required just as much work, maybe more, than our personal journeys. Before the pandemic, Dallas breweries were humming right along; craft beer drinkers turned taproom hopping into a regular weekend event, while operators honed in...
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Oil Demand Set To Surge As Travel Picks Up
As restrictions ease across Europe, we are slowly seeing a resurgence in fuel demand for travel, not only in gasoline and diesel but also in jet fuel as travel and tourism gradually pick up. In recent weeks, there has been some optimism across Europe as U.K. fuel sales reached their highest level...
Smoked Beer and Whiskey Are Now Brewing in Texas
The entrepreneurs behind TexMalt, a Fort Worth–based malt processor, are the only purveyors of smoked malt in the state—for now. Two tons of two-row barley malt in TexMalt's new smoker. Photograph by Daniel Vaughn JB Flowers climbs a ladder looking for smoke, then peers over the edge of a shiny...
Detailed investigation of global chip shortage
Did you recently go to the store to buy an updated phone model? Or maybe you wanted to get the latest gaming system and the shelves were empty. I recently moved to a new home, but the refrigerator or washer / dryer combo I wanted to install is backordered. Maybe there are a lot of new cars you...
Elon Musk Is Turning Boca Chica Into a Space-Travel Hub. Not Everyone Is Starstruck.
Residents of the South Texas beach town say SpaceX’s billionaire owner is ruining their “little piece of heaven.” Perhaps in the distant future historians in far-flung corners of the solar system will note that the twenty-first-century Texas space program did not get off to a particularly strong...
Great Lakes Cheese officials at ground breaking event tout Texas-style welcome to Abilene
A banner welcome for Great Lakes Cheese, including breaking ground at its future site Wednesday, was "overwhelming," said Dan Zagzebski, president and chief executive officer of the company. "(We're) really a company that just kind of sits in the background and does what we hope is right,"...
Local pool supply store owners say nationwide chlorine shortage not affecting Central Texas
Although there's no shortage locally, they mentioned prices for chlorine tablets have increased by 50% in recent months and they may go up again. HEWITT, Texas — Summer is right around the corner and swimming pool owners are facing a chlorine tablet shortage nationwide, as well as dealing high...
Why Exxon And Chevron Are Not Going All-Out In The Permian
The U.S. oil supermajors are leading by example what shale drilling discipline should look like. Neither ExxonMobil nor Chevron are rushing to boost production in the biggest American shale play, the Permian, despite the oil price rally this year that has sent WTI prices to above $60 per barrel....
United Airlines stock plunges after another big loss
Shares of United Airlines tumbled by 8.5% Tuesday after the airline reported a larger first-quarter loss than expected and suggested that key business and international travel won't recover significantly until next year. United reported a first-quarter loss of $1.36 billion after the market closed...
Shale Executive: US Production Rebound Will Lead To New Oil Price War
The U.S. oil industry faces a new oil price war if shale production rebounds next year by rising 1 million bpd compared to this year, Scott Sheffield, chief executive at shale giant Pioneer Natural Resources, said at BloombergNEF’s annual summit. Last year, the OPEC+ group broke up their...
Smoothie King Reports Outstanding 18% Same-Store Sales Growth During Q1
Dallas, TX (RestaurantNews.com) After closing out the second half of last year with 12.2% sales growth, Smoothie King announced today it continued its impressive pace during the first quarter of 2021. The world leader in healthy smoothies experienced a record-breaking 18% same-store sales increase...
Dental Care of Texas now operating in Flower Mound under new name and ownership
6 Day Dental, located at 6050 Long Prairie Road, Ste. 100, Flower Mound, has become Dental Care of Texas-Flower Mound after the business was acquired by North American Dental Group. The name change went into effect Feb. 22. Dental Care of Texas provides general dentistry for adults and children,...