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[Photo: Michael Dorausch] Should Yelpers be compensated for their reviews like actual, professional writers? A group of Yelpers have filed a California class action lawsuit against the site, claiming that they are actually unpaid employees and legally deserve pay for their work, TechDirt reports. Plaintiffs are seeking "just compensation of wages, benefits, and reimbursement for…

When you’re up at 2am six days a week and facing a punch list that includes baking loaves of breads by the dozens, rolls and scones by the score, plus quiches, brownies and cookies by the batchload – then prepping fixings for the hundred-plus sandwiches you’ll sell come lunch time – what people say about…

Ruth Reichl has given an amazing interview to Fashion Week Daily. She describes the lavish lifestyle of Conde Nast, confirms that Gilt Taste is "basically over" and admits that she never looked at Gourmet Live, the digital offspring of her beloved Gourmet magazine (RIP), where she served as editor-in-chief. Ruth really lets the claws (okay,…