El Estoque

The cost of fresh food

Sagnik Nag Chowdhury and Ethan Yang • January 29, 2024

According to a KTVU article, on Nov. 10, 2022, Cupertino restaurant Pho Ha Noi announced it would automatically be putting an 18% gratuity fee on orders for all orders. This announcement caused a wave...

Unfolding Cupertino city limits

Meggie Chen, Crystal Cheng, Aletheia Ju, Sagnik Nag Chowdhury, Aidan Ruan, Trisha Sannappanavar, Ethan Yang, and Michelle Zheng • January 28, 2024

As author Kelly Loy Gilbert once said in her book Picture Us in the Light, "Cupertino is a bubble," and within this bubble many of us find ourselves surviving but not truly living. From high housing prices...