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Michael La Corte

Pho restaurant closed by city "for odor"

A "potentially discriminatory" city code is now being revisited due to a recent backlash of complaints after a Vietnamese restaurant in Portland, Oregon was closed.

As reported by Emi Tuyetnhi Tran of NBC News, the pho restaurant received "anonymous odor complaints" that were filed to the city officials. The restaurant, Pho Gabo, closed in early February after facing the threat of a hefty fine. Since then, though, city officials "halted all subsequent investigations of odor code violations related to food establishments in order to re-examine the policy."

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