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Who moved my cheese? The silent battle between vegetarians and vegans
When there’s only space for one meat-free option on the menu, chefs often now ditch dairy for vegan alternatives. Is this the end of veggie dining?
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‘They’re stealing our customers and we’ve had enough’: is Deliveroo killing restaurant culture?
Shukran Best Kebab – the finest Turkish restaurant in the Seven Sisters area of north London, according to some people (although it is surrounded by fierce rivals to the throne) – joined Deliveroo two years ago, and back then it seemed like a no-brainer. “Life as a small, independent restaurant is hard and the profit margins are slim,” says Hüseyin Kurt, Shukran’s owner. “We wanted more customers and money coming in and Deliveroo seemed to offer that. I didn’t think there was a downside.”
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Stuntman soaks in bean dip for 24 hours to save favorite restaurant
When your favorite Mexican restaurant is struggling to stay alive, what else would you do but sit in a pool of bean dip outside for 24 hours to attract diners? To drive the point home, stuntman Hunter Ray Barker is wearing a T-shirt and mask with the Los Toros restaurant logo which features three bulls, and getting his arm tattooed with the image during the marathon.
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New restaurant owners get shut out of PPP loans despite their financial losses
Every month, Andrew Darneille says his Smokecraft Modern Barbecue in Arlington, Va., has been losing between $15,000 and $20,000, and the numbers would be uglier if not for breaks from his bank and landlord. December was the worst yet: The owner and pitmaster says he suffered $30,000 in losses, even with a skeleton crew and a separate ghost kitchen selling fried chicken sandwiches.
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Trump People Were the Worst Restaurant Guests, Too
Stephen Miller grilled me about caviar. Paul Manafort came in under a fake name. Wilbur Ross always got the cheapest wine (by the glass).
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Vegan Restaurant Gets Michelin Star in France, a First
“We want to show you can eat differently,” said Claire Vallée, whose restaurant won the star. A growing number of chefs are eschewing France’s traditional, meat-focused cuisine.
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Local restaurateurs hope winter and COVID won't kill them off
At the Academy Tavern on Larchmere last week, Missy and Wilson Heller shared a table but not a comfort level. “I’m freaked out,” Missy said about eating out during the pandemic. “It’s all overblown,” Wilson said about the danger.
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Tom Selleck Leaves a $2,020 Tip and Handwritten Note for Restaurant Servers as Part of the 2020 Tip Challenge
Generosity clearly runs in the Blue Bloods family. On Wednesday night, Donnie Wahlberg shared that his costar Tom Selleck recently left a $2,020 tip on a $204.68 bill for the servers at Elio's restaurant in New York City. "I found out that my TV Dad Tom Selleck has generously accepted the #2020TipChallenge at Elios Upper East Side! Love ya dad," Wahlberg posted on Twitter, along with photos of Selleck's dinner receipt and sweet handwritten note for the staff.
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Singapore becomes first country to approves sales of lab-made meat
The product, created from animal cells without the slaughter of any chickens, will debut as a chicken bite with breading and seasoning in a single restaurant.
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Developmentally Disabled Burger King Employee Only Competent Worker
Despite his third-grade reading level and IQ of 71, developmentally disabled Burger King employee Andy Ehrman is the only competent member of the 22-person Frontage Road staff.
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After 34 years, one of Seattle’s oldest vegetarian restaurants closes permanently
Serving Seattle since 1986, all manner of Fremont’s beloved veggie goods like that of the vegan thai peanut stir fry and vegan BBQ beyond burger are coming to a wistful goodbye as Silence Heart Nest announced its permanent closure last week.
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Pizza restaurant launches Spain's first virtual waiter app
A restaurant on Spain’s northeastern Mediterranean coast is pioneering a dining experience that allows customers to avoid most face-to-face contact with staff and minimise the risk of coronavirus contagion. Customers at Funky Pizza, in Palafrugell on the Costa Brava popular with tourists, can browse the menu, order and pay via the “Funky Pay” app on their phones - the first time a purpose-designed app has been integrated into a restaurant’s ordering system in Spain.
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KFC will sell Beyond Fried Chicken at 50+ California restaurants after wildly successful test launches in Atlanta, Nashville, and Charlotte
KFC will sell Beyond Fried Chicken at over 50 restaurants in Southern California, the chain announced on Thursday in a press release emailed to Business Insider. The plant-based chicken will be sold in greater Los Angeles and San Diego, as well as Orange County, starting July 20. It will be available in six-piece or 12-piece packs or as part of a combo meal, while supplies last.
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The Oldest Restaurant In (Almost) Every Country
Many of the world’s oldest businesses are restaurants for the simple reason that delicious, familiar food never goes out of fashion.
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Uber will acquire food-delivery startup Postmates in $2.6 billion all-stock deal, reports say
Uber is set to acquire the food-delivery startup Postmates in a $2.6 billion deal, The New York Times and Bloomberg reported Sunday.People familiar with the matter told Bloomberg and The Times that the all-stock deal could be announced as soon as Monday. According to The Times, Uber is expected to merge Postmates with its popular homegrown food-delivery app Uber Eats.
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Burger King adds Impossible Foods' meatless sausage on its breakfast menu nationwide
Burger King said Monday it is adding a breakfast sandwich made with meat-free Impossible Sausage to its menu nationwide. The Restaurant Brands International chain, which began testing the menu item in January, is the first national chain to add Impossible Foods’ sausage to a breakfast sandwich. The Impossible Croissan’wich will be available for a limited time at participating locations. Dunkin’ already sells breakfast sandwiches made with Beyond Meat’s plant-based sausage.
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As Diners Flock to Delivery Apps, Restaurants Fear for Their Future
Before the coronavirus lockdowns, Matt Majesky didn’t take much notice of the fees that Grubhub and Uber Eats charged him every time they processed an order for his restaurant, Pierogi Mountain. But once the lockdowns began, the apps became essentially the only source of business for the barroom restaurant he ran with a partner, Charlie Greene, in Columbus, Ohio. That was when the fees to the delivery companies turned into the restaurant’s single largest cost — more than what it paid for food or labor.
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Is It Safe to Eat at Restaurants Yet?
Dining out right now will come with certain risks. Here’s what you can do to keep yourself and others around you safe.
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Burger King says it never promised Impossible Whoppers were vegan
Burger King, saying it never billed its "Impossible Whoppers" as vegan or promised to cook them a particular way, said a proposed class action by a vegan customer over the plant-based patties being cooked on the same grills as meat burgers should be thrown out.
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Vegan restaurants are closing across the UK because not enough people follow the diet to sustain them, analysis finds
Vegan restaurants are closing down across the country because of a lack of interest in solely plant-based food, analysis has found.
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