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“Management let it happen”: Netizens slam Burger King Faribault with negative reviews on Yelp as company speaks out following viral black face video
Burger King restaurant sign in San Francisco, California - December 4, 2025 - Source: Getty On Saturday, October 31, the Halloween celebrations in Faribault, Minnesota, took an unexpected turn after an employee at a Burger King outlet showed up at work with a black face. A video of the incident has since been posted online. Multiple customers at the Burger King joint also snapped pictures of the black-faced employee at the takeout counter, posting them on Yelp alongside negative feedback to express their disdain at the reportedly racist gesture and blame it on the management. Here are some of ...
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This Old-School Minnesota Butcher Shop Still Offers Custom Meat Cuts That Families Swear By
Some shopping trips are worth planning a whole Saturday morning around. In a tiny southern Minnesota town, a butcher counter has quietly built the kind of loyalty most big stores can only dream about. Families drive in for custom cuts, hunters bring in their deer, and road-trippers stock up on...
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Winona eyes big changes to promote housing
Winona is considering taking a couple big swings to address the city's housing challenges and promote more development. Last month, city staff presented to the City Council on barriers to development, and proposed eliminating parking minimums and replacing lot size minimums and dimension standards with aesthetic rules. Winona has faced...
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WinCraft yanks line workers’ chairs, then yields
WINONA, Minnesota — Nobody would ever call Sharon Langve a rabble-rouser, but the 71-year-old production line employee at WinCraft, one of Winona’s largest employers, maneuvered the company into reversing a worker-unfriendly policy change. A boss in Langve’s 30-employee unit were told in September that their chairs were being take away. They would need to stand all shift at their tedious assembly benches. The change, unexpected, was alarming for Langve, who has two artificial knees, and also for co-workers with leg and back issues. An immediate suspicion was that WinCraft, which has 360 employees, was not budget-cutting — getting rid of senior employees and replacing them newcomers at lower starting wages. No, no, explained bosses. The workplace floorplan was being redesigned to increase production, which squeezed outs space for chairs. Either way, this is what happened next:
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This Gorgeous Small Minnesota Town Is Cheap Enough That Retirees Live Comfortably On Social Security
A monthly Social Security check does not stretch very far in many parts of the country. Rent climbs, groceries creep up, and plenty of retirees start wondering where their money can still breathe a little. In southern Minnesota, one river town offers a quieter answer. It has two lakes, a...