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Restaurants have suffered greatly during the COVID-19 pandemic, and many of them have gone out of business for good. Bars have had it even worse, though. Restaurants tend to be larger than bars and...
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Superstitions are folk beliefs, convictions or suspicions that certain behaviors will have good or bad consequences — even though most of us realize, rationally, that there’s no conceivable...
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The restaurant industry was all but devastated when the pandemic struck. Though it has still not recovered, food establishments, including fine dining restaurants, are finding new ways to serve...
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It’s a great feeling when you win a few thousand dollars (or more) from the lottery. It’s even a great feeling when you reach into the pocket of an old pair of pants or down into a purse you...
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Now that we’re firmly into the 2020s, it might be time to take a look back at what America was like a century ago, during the fabled decade known as the Roaring Twenties. In America (and to a...
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The restaurant business is a tough one, and the COVID-19 pandemic has all but destroyed it. Even before closures became mandatory, restaurants came and went with regularity. Statistics on restaurant...
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People across the world love pop music. The best songs can be listened to again and again and can endure for years being played on the radio and on television. As implied by its name, pop music is...
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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services currently defines the federal poverty line at $12,880 for individuals, $26,500 for families of four in the continental U.S. (the rates are slightly...
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“It is a hero among sandwiches, although it is not the one called a hero,” wrote critic Pete Wells in the New York Times several years ago. He was talking about the breakfast sandwich, an iconic...
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Now that restaurants across the country are open again, albeit at limited capacity, we can talk about a typical restaurant experience. There are three main facets to it: Ambiance, meaning the overall...
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Major food companies employ virtual armies of chefs, food scientists, and marketing gurus dedicated to developing, test-marketing, and (if all goes well) eventually rolling out new products. Both...
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The sheer quantity of edible, nourishing food that gets thrown away every year is stunning. According to the U.N.’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), as much as a third of all the food...
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Between June and November of last year, in the heart of the pandemic, the overall percentage of Americans living below the poverty line rose from 9.3% to 11.7% — the highest single-year increase...
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Electric cars are coming down the road. Volvo recently announced that it will sell only electric cars beginning in 2030. In a move that will have even a greater impact on the automotive industry,...
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What was life in America like a century or more ago? We can read about it, of course, in books and articles written at the time as well as in the works of historians of the period. But fortunately,...
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