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Oprah spotted at Atlanta’s Busy Bee Cafe ahead of wellness tour

Quick Facts About Oprah Winfrey Oprah Winfrey's famous mononym is a typo. Her name is written "Orpah" on her birth certificate. Oprah's name spelled backward forms the title of her media company, Harpo Productions. She's the first African-American woman billionaire and the world's richest black woman. In 2013, Winfrey was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by former President Barack Obama. The TV channel OWN wasn't her first foray into network television dealings. She was an investor in the Oxygen
By Crystal Villarreal
Jan 25, 2020

Oprah Winfrey will be at the State Farm Arena today for her 2020 Vision: Your Life in Focus tour, but the media mogul was spotted yesterday at an Atlanta eatery.

Busy Bee Cafe, located on Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, posted on their Facebook page that Oprah stopped by for lunch. The restaurant also mentioned their partnership with WW (formerly Weight Watchers).

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For each stop of Winfrey’s tour, WW collaborated with restaurants to create “WW Favorite” dishes that fit a healthy lifestyle. At Busy Bee, WW recommends baked haddock filets with yellow rice, and roasted squash and zucchini.

The tour is presented and produced by WW and a part of each of the daylong event will focus on taking charge of your health. For her Atlanta stop, Oprah is bringing Dwayne Johnson with her.

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Her tour started in Fort Lauderdale in early January and is continuing through early March, and includes upcoming stops in Brooklyn on Feb. 8, Dallas on Feb.15, San Francisco on Feb. 22, Los Angeles on Feb. 29 and Denver on Mar. 7.

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