Diners, Drive-ins and Dives Miss Shirleys episode

BALTIMORE (WJZ) -- Miss Shirley's Cafe, known for their southern style brunch, will be featured on the Food Network's Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives Friday.

Ron Matz has more on the talk of the town in Roland Park.

The buzz at Miss Shirley's is about more than the delicious Coconut Cream Stuffed French Toast. The Roland Park landmark is ready for its close up appearance on Guy Fieri's Diners Drive-Ins and Dives.

The cafe's chef Brigitte O. Bledsoe is featured in the episode as well as the cafe's original Roland Park location. It's opened up two other locations since.

"It's very exciting to be on the Food Network," said Bledsoe. "The crew was amazing to work with, they made you feel right at home."

The Food Network crew filmed in October and everyone was sworn to secrecy.

Bledsoe says the hardest part was not being able to tell anyone.

"Every year we're very fortunate. Every year we feel like we sort of reached them all and they just keep coming, says David Dopkin, managing member of Miss Shirley's Cafe. "We have a very talented team and my father taught our management team a lot over the years"

The national recognition for Miss Shirley's comes as it celebrates their 10th anniversary and as it remembers its founded Eddie Dopkin.

"My father is really looking down and smiling and enjoying this because he was a regular fan of the show," said David Dopkin. " He would come in and say did you see this episode, did you see where Guy went, we gotta go check it out."

Miss Shirley's will join over a dozen Maryland restaurants featured on the show -- who have since gained more fame with the help of celebrity chef Guy Fieri.

Locations Guy Fieri visits in the USA - Places to eat comfort home-style, healthy, gourmet & fast food meals!

MISS SHIRLEY'S CAFE

Listen folks, first and foremost please be aware that Miss Shirley is found across three locations spread out in Maryland. They've become so popular that they are expanding rapidly and can currently be found in two Baltimore locations and one Annapolis joint. Serving American traditional meals and excelling in both breakfast and brunch menu items, it has quickly become our go-to place when in this beautiful state. Stemming and staying true to Southern traditions, they have won several awards and continue to innovate with new and classic ideas. Fresh ingredients are brought in daily from Chesapeake Bay area, and you know how much we prefer fresh and local. Very warm and welcoming, you'll leave with a full belly and and smile. Running over a decade now, their experience and traditions help keep it on the right track. Consider their famous Coconut Cream French Toast or Crab Cake Po' Boys, but also browse over the White Chocolate Pancakes, Chicken n' Waffles, Bees Knees Oatmeal, Grits, Southern Slammer Sandwich, Funky Monkey Bread and tons more. Sit back and really enjoy a great meal to start the day right here.

Address / Location:

513 W. Cold Spring Lane
Baltimore, MD 21210

For menu, health nutrition facts, hours, delivery, reservations or gift cards please call: 410-889-5272

This trip, Guy Fieri's visiting spots keepin' up with their family ties. In Pleasantville, N.J., a wife carries on her husband's legacy with his down-home chicken and waffles and righteous ribs. In Baltimore, an inherited breakfast-lunch joint still servin' their noteworthy coconut cream French toast and crab cake po' boys. And in Colorado Springs, southern family recipes mark a barbecue spot piling up a "sloppy pig" sandwich and scratch-made meatloaf.

Microsoft has responded to a list of concerns regarding its ongoing $68bn attempt to buy Activision Blizzard, as raised by the UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), and come up with an interesting statistic.

In response to continued questions over whether Microsoft owning Call of Duty would unfairly hobble PlayStation, Microsoft claimed that every COD player on PlayStation could move over to Xbox, and Sony's playerbase would still remain "significantly larger" than its own.

Microsoft does not go into detail on its mental arithmetic here, but does note elswhere in its comments that PlayStation currently has a console install base of 150 million, compared to Xbox's install base of 63.7 million.

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That claim is part of a range of comments given to Eurogamer sister site GamesIndustry.biz in response to the CMA's latest report, which otherwise mostly repeats many of the same concerns raised by the UK regulator - and others around the world - already.

For those following the case, the CMA's latest intervention will not come as a surprise - it is the next step on the regulator's recent roadmap for how and when it will weigh in with its final ruling. This month, we were due the CMA's October "issues statement" - and it seems that this is the document to which Microsoft has now publicly responded.

The usual topics are covered - surrounding the potential for the deal to harm competitors should Microsoft gain too much of an advantage owning Activision Blizzard franchises (mainly, Call of Duty) and therefore being able to leverage their brand power to become a dominant market leader in the console market and cloud streaming.

Specifically, the CMA sees potential for the deal to harm Sony but also other streaming services such as Google (perhaps a moot point now), Amazon and Nvidia.

"Having full control over this powerful catalogue, especially in light of Microsoft's already strong position in gaming consoles, operating systems, and cloud infrastructure, could result in Microsoft harming consumers by impairing Sony's – Microsoft's closest gaming rival – ability to compete," the CMA wrote, "as well as that of other existing rivals and potential new entrants who could otherwise bring healthy competition through innovative multi-game subscriptions and cloud gaming services."

In response, Microsoft said such "unsupported theories of harm" were not enough to even warrant the CMA's current Phase 2 investigation - which was triggered on 1st September.

"The suggestion that the incumbent market leader, with clear and enduring market power, could be foreclosed by the third largest provider as a result of losing access to one title is not credible," Microsoft told GamesIndustry.biz.

"While Sony may not welcome increased competition, it has the ability to adapt and compete. Gamers will ultimately benefit from this increased competition and choice.

"Should any consumers decide to switch from a gaming platform that does not give them a choice as to how to pay for new games (PlayStation) to one that does (Xbox), then that is the sort of consumer switching behavior that the CMA should consider welfare enhancing and indeed encourage. It is not something that the CMA should be trying to prevent."

The CMA is due to notify Microsoft of its provisional findings in January 2023, at which point it can seek possible remedies to any sticking points raised. The regulator's final report - and overall ruling - will then be published no later than 1st March next year.

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