A German triathlete has been banned from dining at a sushi buffet restaurant in the south-eastern city of Landshut, after he gobbled up 100 plates of food. Mr Jaroslav Bobrowski, 30, follows a special diet where he fasts for 20 hours at a stretch before eating till he is full, reported German news website The Local last Friday (Sept 14).

Police in Texas are searching for two women who allegedly attacked a restaurant server and punched a baby while fighting over a plate. When officers arrived at the El Matador Restaurant in Denton Tuesday, the two suspects had already left the establishment, KDFW reported. The waitress told police that two women had asked for an extra plate and then became angry over how long they had to wait for it.

The New Zealand pub, inspired by the beloved Lord of the Rings and Hobbit series, offers fans "a place to drink, a place to meet, a place to rest your hairy feet."

The past year and a half has seen an impressive new crop of high-design restaurants that demonstrate as much innovation and flair in their architecture and decor as they do in their cuisine.

Jon Bon Jovi has opened a new "pay-what-you-can" restaurant in Red Bank, New Jersey intended to encourage volunteer work in the area.

Subway customers are whipping out their measuring tapes after Internet postings that claim a short-shrifting of the worldwide chain’s famous footlong sub.

Rude customers, deluxe espressos and the perfect cup of coffee - all in a day's work for your barista. How do they do it? Here are their best-kept secrets.

Steve Palumbi has a few rules when it comes to sushi. If something is labeled tuna, then it probably is, but stay away from the salmon, because it probably isn’t. More likely, it’s steelhead trout—a close relative of salmon.

Old restaurant menus are often beautiful works of epicurean art, created as part of the complete sensory dining experience to entertain and awe guests. Reading these menus today is both a form of mini-time travel and a horrifying glance at the food habits of yesteryear.

If you order a Big Mac, Grand Angus or Chicken Deluxe meal at the McDonald’s in Warilla, Australia between 5pm – 8pm on a Monday or Tuesday, you’ll have the option of having your food served to you on china. We’re talking actual forks and knives accompanying your Mickey D’s burger and fries.

With the collapse of the USSR and the penetration of Western capital into Russia, employers discovered a workforce that adapted only reluctantly to the norms of capitalist work discipline.

Other fast food stocks down as well.

Horse meat continues to turn up in beef products all over Europe. On Monday, Swedish furniture-maker Ikea announced that it was withdrawing its famous meatballs from 14 European locations after trace amounts of equine were discovered within them.

Almost 10 percent of the U.S. workforce is in the restaurant industry. Why is it legal to treat them so poorly?

I gotta admit it: I have a secret love for McDonald's breakfast sandwiches. On the morning after a rough night out, I wake up with a deep hole in the pit of my stomach.

A comic about people who wait tables...

It seems that in at least one part of the world, the golden arches have lost a little luster.

Said no kid EVER.

MORRIS, Man. - When Dave Claringbould and his partner opened a restaurant in rural Manitoba, they knew some people might have a problem with them being gay.But they didn't expect to face blatant ignorance and insults."We were asked if somebody was going to catch something off of the plate because we had prepared the food on it," Claringbould recalled Tuesday.

I'll jut take it to go then, losers.

It was a simpler time back then.

Mexico's new hardline stance on salt has led to the removal of salt shakers from over 200,000 restaurants, pubs and cafes in the country's capital.

A Dearborn McDonald's falsely advertised its food as prepared according to Islamic law. Islam forbids consumption of pork, and God's name must be invoked before an animal providing meat for consumption is slaughtered.

Cheap burgers may be eating into franchisees’ bottom lines, a welcome development for the fast-food scolds out there.

We're bombarded with more messages to eat healthier -- cut back on salt, fat, and sugar -- and more products help us do so. But restaurants, fast food chains and food manufacturers aren't making it easy to eat smarter.

The two owners of Amy’s Baking Company Bakery Boutique & Bistro took over the restaurant’s Facebook page last night to fight unruly commenters, and man, was it embarrassing.

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McDonald's Corp said on Thursday it is phasing out one-third pound Angus burgers from U.S. menus, an anticipated move that comes shortly after U.S. beef prices hit a 10-year high.

The new message makes a lot of sense.

State authorities this morning raided 29 bars and restaurants across New Jersey on suspicion that they have been re-filling empty bottles of their most expensive liquors with cheaper alcohol.

Packed tight into wire baskets sometimes 20 or more to a cage animal rights activists say as many as 200,000 live dogs every year are smuggled from northeast Thailand across the Mekong River destined for restaurants in Vietnam.

Making restaurant reservations is a way of life -- but, for many consumers, so is breaking them. For every reservation that is made in some large cities, around 20% result in an empty table that the business must hope to fill with walk-in consumers.

Deliverymen may be the most misunderstood, and least appreciated, of all gratuity-based workers. Sure, there are some bad eggs in the mix, but the vast majority of them work for tips in a completely unregulated, and unstructured, environment—somewhat like café baristas.

Starbucks is charging customers a little more to help them get up Tuesday morning, as the coffee chain raises the prices of many of its drinks.

French MPs have approved a bill forcing restaurants to label as "home-made" dishes which were prepared from raw ingredients in their kitchen.