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The COVID-19 pandemic has been devastating to the restaurant business. Well over 100,000 establishments of various kinds — from fast-food outlets to pricey Michelin-starred dining rooms — have...
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Somebody once proposed that any town in America with a population of more than about 10,000 had at least one Chinese restaurant. That may or may not be true, but according to some estimates, there...
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It’s hard to tell how America’s most successful restaurant chains will emerge from our year-plus of pandemic restrictions and changed eating habits — but the industry got a good head start in...
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Americans spend millions of dollars a year eating and drinking at fast food establishments. The coronavirus pandemic did not stop the trend. In fact, drive-thru orders surged in 2020. By December,...
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As states continue to loosen restriction on movement and gatherings, Mother’s Day celebrations this year may provide a platform for togetherness that many people have been sorely missing. A...
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Grilled cheese is America's favorite sandwich, with nearly eight in 10 survey respondents saying they liked it.
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Pablo Picasso, the rapper Prodigy, and the fourth president of the United States have something in common: They all died while eating. There’s an old Catalan proverb that says “The table kills...
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In an earlier era, choosing an ice cream flavor was easy. The standard options were vanilla, strawberry, and chocolate, and sometimes a slab of Neapolitan — which was a banded combination of all...
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Even before the pandemic, 48% of American food shoppers were already buying at least a portion of their groceries online, with that number expected to rise to 59% in 2019 and to as much as 70% by...
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Sandwiches are a comfort food staple, a go-to snack and meal for millions of people. The popular story is that we have John Montagu, the 4th Earl of Sandwich, to thank for that. He often asked for...
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Sometimes putting cold cuts between two slices of bread is more than one can manage on a weeknight, not to mention when the fridge is empty and so is the gas tank. We’ve all been there. Delivery is...
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McDonald’s launched the first Happy Meal in 1979. It was the brainchild of marketer Dick Brams, who had the idea of creating a meal just for kids — one that included a toy. The offerings back...
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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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