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White Castle Threatens to Raise Prices to Offset New York’s $15 Wage
Likely craving better wages.Every month or so, a new fast-food executive must assume the duty of talking to CNBC or another sympathetic outlet and catastrophizing New York's $15 minimum wage. For...
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‘Dissatisfied’ Customer Shoots Up Taco Truck With His Shotgun
Already cranking out tacos again.California police say a taco-truck customer upset about his order on Sunday took the logical next step and blasted the joint with his shotgun. The unidentified man, who...
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Starbucks’s New Rewards Program Is Off to a Terrible Start
A dramatization of the rewards program in action.Starbucks's controversial new less-rewarding rewards program debuted today, and based on what customers are saying online, the word underwhelming is...
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Danny Bowien Is Throwing a ‘Frat Party’ With Big-Time Chefs
Wear your best polo shirt.Mission Chinese Food's Danny Bowien has proved time and time again that he knows how to throw an excellent rager. On Saturday from noon to 3 p.m. at Mission Cantina, he's...
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Where to Eat the Best Steak in NYC
April Bloomfield's classic rib eye at the Breslin.New York is full of iconic foods, but steak is still the undisputed king. The city has a proud tradition of hulking porterhouses, convivial chophouses,...
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The World Actually Grew Fewer GMOs Last Year
GM-No.For the first time, data show the world's farmers actually planted fewer GMOs than they did the previous year. A group that tracks crops says that, according to its figures on biotech seed use,...
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Restaurant Bans Alligator to Protest Mississippi’s Anti-LGBT Law
Sorry, gator-tail enthusiasts — you're SOL.Mississippi's new "turn away the gays" law is picking up opponents left and right, and the latest appears to be an eatery all the way over in Utah. Cucina, a...
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Cómodo’s New Menu Includes This Awesome Poblano-Pepper Carbonara
Poblano-pepper carbonara with quail egg, Pecorino cheese, and bacon.There are changes afoot at Cómodo, husband-and-wife team Felipe Donnelly and Tamy Rofe's five-year-old MacDougal Street restaurant....
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15 New Dishes That Highlight the Spring Vegetables You’ve Been Waiting For
Upland's smoked chicken with asparagus and slow-cooked spring onion.Hey, look outside. Spring has finally arrived, bringing with it New York's annual bounty of ramps, asparagus, fiddlehead ferns, young...
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‘World’s Cheapest’ Michelin-Starred Restaurant Opening New York Outpost
This is huge.Hong Kong hole in the wall Tim Ho Wan made waves in 2009 when it received a Michelin star for dim sum that, at the time, all cost around $5 or less a plate. The restaurant's reputation and...
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Disappointing New Study Says Fast Food Could Contain Industrial Plasticizers
With a side of large phthalates, please.Having to swallow a bunch of fake ingredients is basically the devil's bargain for eating a Whopper or Gordita, but new evidence suggests a bonus chemical is...
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Seamless Launching Its Own (New) Delivery Service in NYC
Two ramen burgers, coming up.Seamless has long been the go-to name in online food delivery, but recent competition from companies such as Caviar, Maple, Postmates, and even Uber have made the market...
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Coffee Pot: Feds Say Family Laundered $1 Million of Marijuana Through Java Stand
There's always money in the coffee stand.A real-life Bluth family has been busted by the Feds for allegedly laundering drug money through a tiny Oregon coffee stand. Prosecutors say Blac Sheep Coffee,...
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The Burly, Beautiful (and Sometimes Brightly Colored) Steak Knives of New York
Minetta Tavern's utilitarian carver.A couple of years ago, I had a meeting with an advertising executive at Reynard, Andrew Tarlow's restaurant in the Wythe Hotel. The executive — a self-proclaimed gym...
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Chill Inventors Unveil Pizza Box That You Can Use to Smoke Weed
Best of both worlds.The geniuses who boiled pizza ordering down to one button on an app have now turned their life-hacking skills to the delivery box itself. The Push for Pizza team worked with the...
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Mast Brothers Sign on for $68 Million Brooklyn Navy Yard Project
What scandal?Last year's Mast Brothers controversy — the revelation that the company used industrial chocolate in its earliest days — won't slow down sales after all. Rick and Michael Mast have...
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Yep, Coffee Probably Lowers Your Cholesterol Now, Too
Good choice.Science is back with reason No. 8,472 for why you should stop whatever you're doing and go have a coffee: Italian researchers presented findings this week that suggest drinking a daily dose...
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Tampa Newspaper Blows the Lid Off Entire City’s Bogus ‘Farm-to-Table’ Scene
Boca Kitchen Bar is one of the restaurants critic Laura Reiley called out.Farm-to-table is mostly fiction. That's the thesis of today's most compelling newspaper story, anyway. Veteran Tampa Bay Times...
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McDonald’s Takes Mercy on Employees and Eliminates Its Most-Loathed Menu Item
In memoriam.For the past year, McDonald's has ostensibly been purging its menu — part of its new "The Simpler the Better" corporate ethos. The path hasn't been the most direct one (the chain keeps...
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NASA Thinks Potatoes Can Legitimately Grow on Mars
He wishes NASA more success.Astronauts these days get to enjoy delicious space lettuce and a morning espresso, perks that are definitely going to make Elon Musk's Martian colonists super jealous. So,...
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