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Fairway Market Officially Files for Bankruptcy
Fairway has racked up $267 million in debt.As rumored would happen, Fairway has reached its last resort. The grocer filed for bankruptcy protection on Monday, after losing $300 million in five years,...
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Girl Finds Razor Blade in Her Soda at Wendy’s
Whoops?Presumably, this isn't what Wendy's means by its new tagline "Deliciously different": A location in the New Hampshire city of Keene says it served a little girl a soda that had a razor blade in...
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Oxford Student Refuses to Tip Server Because She’s White
Strange.A black Oxford law student is getting the internet's full wrath after celebrating how he and a friend had screwed their white South African server by putting "We will give tip when you return...
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Why This Leading London Chef Feels Energized by New York Kitchens
"They're excited about food. I love that about America."Margot Henderson is one of London's most influential chefs: She turned an old-school bike shed in Shoreditch into Rochelle Canteen, a beloved...
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A Farming Cartoonist Was Fired for Joking About Big Agriculture
Big Ag needs to lighten up. After 21 years and nearly 1,100 cartoons, the longtime editorial cartoonist of Iowa's small-circulation Farm News was canned for a critical cartoon noting farmers' shrinking...
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Congress Introduced a Bill to Keep Journalists From Snooping Around Big Food
More egg in the face.Wily lobbyists for Big Food have convinced the House to introduce a bill that would make their respective industry ad groups exempt from the public's prying eyes. It's essentially...
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Supreme Court Won’t Stand in the Way of Seattle’s $15 Minimum Wage
Safe for now.Supporters of America's $15-minimum-wage experiment can breathe a little easier: The Supreme Court Monday refused to hear an appeal filed by the fast-food industry that challenged...
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America Finally Realizing Subway’s Sandwiches Aren’t Very Good
You can do better than this for lunch.After decades of cramming stores into basically every available nook and cranny around the country, Subway — the sandwich chain whose stores make entire blocks...
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Hundreds of Frozen Foods at Costco, Walmart, and Trader Joe’s Recalled Over...
Trader Joe's Organic Foursome is on the do-not-eat list.CRF Frozen Foods, a company that cranks out a suddenly alarming amount of the country's frozen fruits and vegetables, has issued a recall of epic...
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Grim New Study Says Some Pacific Oysters Contain ‘a Cocktail of Pharmaceuticals’
A good excuse to eat local.You might want to stick to East Coast oysters for a while: A new study from Portland State University researchers has found that the Olympia oysters, a prized and intensely...
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FBI Apprehends Whole Foods Customer It Says Sprayed Mouse Poison in the Store
Book him, Danno.The local jerk who was filmed spritzing the unpackaged food at a Michigan Whole Foods with an "unknown liquid substance" is now in federal custody. In fact, investigators say it took...
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Mayor de Blasio Urges New Yorkers to Avoid Chick-fil-A
Don't go, says de Blasio.Chick-fil-A's New York invasion has finally gotten real enough to trouble the mayor. The chain's third New York City location will land at Queens Center Mall this fall, and...
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Café Henrie’s Light, Bright Dinner Menu Launches Tonight
A Dragon Bowl with a side of meat.Since Camille Becerra (formerly of Navy) took the reins at André Saraiva's Café Henrie, the Lower East Side restaurant has become a lunchtime mecca for fans of...
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Introducing the Pie Sundae, Which You Can Go and Eat Right Now
Chocolate-peanut pie with Nonna D's Oatmeal Lace ice cream, hot fudge, whipped cream, "crack cookies," and chocolate sprinkles.There's a brand-new outpost of Ample Hills Creamery attached to Bubby's...
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Trader Joe’s Hit by Another Massive Listeria-Related Recall
Bad week.Not a reassuring week for Trader Joe's shoppers: The grocery chain has followed Tuesday's announcement that it's recalled a bunch of frozen vegetables over fears of Listeria monocytogenes with...
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Here’s Your Last-Minute Guide to Celebrating Cinco de Mayo
Roberta's will have a DJ and mariachi music, as well as beer and tequila specials.If you're just realizing that it's Cinco de Mayo today and you have no plans to speak of, don't give up and settle for...
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Jewish Leader Accuses Michelin of Being Anti-Semitic
Taking heat.Estée Lauder heir and political activist Ronald Lauder has a bone to pick with Michelin. The World Jewish Congress president says it's "concerning" that there isn't an Israel guidebook, and...
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The Metrograph Movie House Serves Steak Tartare at Its Commissary
Steak tartare with fried capers, spring onions, and spiced mayonnaise.The newly opened Metrograph is no ordinary movie theater, so it of course offers advanced snacks. Its on-site restaurant, the...
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New York Times Getting Into the Business of Delivering Food to People’s Homes
It launches this summer.The powers that be at the New York Times, perhaps realizing there isn't much future in the business of delivering news printed on paper, is jumping on the meal-kit-delivery...
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Donald Trump Celebrates Cinco de Mayo With ‘the Best Taco Bowls’
We don't even need to consult the experts putting together our Absolute Best of New York package to know that there's no way the best taco bowls are actually made in Trump Tower. Even still, future...
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