Test run: Piccadilly Restaurants opens its new full-service location at 11 a.m. today in Denham Springs’ Juban Crossing shopping center. The 7,000-square-foot restaurant is smaller than a typical Piccadilly and features an open kitchen, high-top seating and a takeout area for guests on the go. The location will serve as a prototype for future full-service restaurants. Read a recent Daily Report story about the changes at Piccadilly.
Price index: Higher energy prices lifted U.S. overall consumer prices in November. The Labor Department said this morning that its consumer price index rose 0.3% last month after rising 0.4% in October. Energy prices, led by a 1.1% uptick in gasoline, rose 0.8% in November on top of a 2.7% jump in October. Excluding volatile food and energy prices, so-called core inflation rose 0.2% in November, matching October’s increase. Overall consumer prices were up 2.1% and core prices were up 2.3% from November 2018. See the full report.
Crackdown: YouTube is taking another step to curb hateful and violent speech on its site. The video streaming company said it will now take down videos that lob insults at people based on race, gender expression, sexual orientation or other “protected attributes.” The Google-owned company has been slapped with criticism for the material it allows on—and bans from—the site, and it has been accused of allowing and fostering hate speech and extremism and creating spaces for harassment to linger online. Read the full story.
