Martha Stewart Opening Cafe as Lifestyle Magazines Falter
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Martha Stewart is expanding her home-goods empire, this time by offering food and drink directly to her legions of devotees with her first cafe.
Martha Stewart Cafe will open in the Starrett-Lehigh Building in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood, where the domestic maven’s company headquarters are located. Cafe managers now are hiring baristas, Claudia Shaum, a spokeswoman for Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia Inc., said in a phone interview yesterday.