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A new restaurant in Manhattan changes its racially tinged name

Published Wed, Aug 23, 2017 · 09:50 PM

    New York

    IN an age of careful branding, restaurateurs put a lot of thought into choosing just the right name. Rarely will they go to the trouble and expense of changing it.

    Yet the chef Tom Colicchio is dropping the name of his newest Manhattan restaurant, Fowler & Wells, after learning that it has historically racist connotations. The new name is Temple Court.

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