| Chipotle Establishes Scholarships at The Culinary Institute of America
In 1990, a young student of The Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, N.Y., received his toque and headed to California to pursue his dreams of becoming a chef. Some three years later, looking to open a restaurant of his own, he returned home to Denver and, with a loan from his father, Steve Ells opened a burrito restaurant in the hopes of making enough money to some day open a �real�� restaurant. Fourteen years later, that Denver burrito restaurant continues to do a brisk business, along with the more than 640 other Chipotle Mexican Grill locations nationwide. The restaurant has a loyal following, has received critical acclaim around the country, and has become one of the fastest-growing restaurant companies in the country. �My time at The Culinary Institute of America provided a great foundation when I was starting my career and taught me many lessons that are still valuable today,�� said Ells.
The eyes have it in pet look-alike contest
Kathy Smith was all smiles after being told she looked like her pit bull. Smith said her first-place finish in Saturday's owner-dog look-alike contest was a compliment to her pet, Ethel Nicole Smith. "I told her she was a beauty, and this is proof," Kathy Smith said of the stray dog she found two years ago running along East 21st Street. Radio personality Brad Streeter of KZSN (102.1 FM) told Smith he picked her and Ethel because of their eyes. "I love her eyes," Smith said, beaming. Smith also has a Dalmatian mix named Lucy to keep Ethel company and has been known to buy the dogs Happy Meals at McDonald's. Saturday was a dog's day afternoon at Cambridge Market, 21st and Webb Road, at a fund-raiser put together by the merchants for the Kansas Humane Society.
Builder in Spain Crashes, Founder Keeps New York Pad (Update1)
Aug. 22 (Bloomberg) -- From the looks of things at the newly built Aparta Hotel Residencia, you'd never know that it's the high summer tourist season in Canet d'En Berenguer, a town of 5,000 just north of Valencia on Spain's Mediterranean coast. The compound's 308 apartments, completed this spring, are all unoccupied. Grass has started to sprout between the red terra-cotta tiles that lead to the empty, peanut-shaped swimming pool. The residence is just one of a trail of buildings dotting the sandy coastline constructed by Enrique Banuelos as he amassed a fortune of more than 4 billion euros ($5.4 billion) over the past 15 years. Banuelos lost much of that money -- and shareholders' -- as the stock market punished the firm he founded, Astroc Mediterraneo SA, amid a rapid cooling of Spain's housing market.
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