On a cold Monday morning I was sitting at the counter of a diner. It was buzzing; omelets, French toast, and eggs Benedict flew by. And as I sipped on my coffee, my eyes were darting all over, putting price tags on every fixture, every chair, every packet of ketchup. I knew a secret through the grapevine that employees and customers didn't. Seven hours from now, this restaurant was going to die. And I was going to pick over the remains.

A North Carolina man has used his “Never Ending Pasta Pass” from Olive Garden to eat 95 meals over the last six weeks. Alan Martin bought the pass for $100 and says he has received $1,510 worth of food so far.

Yelp's self-interest, rather than any objective set of criteria, is what determines a real review.

As it becomes increasingly likely that the FDA will require restaurants to post the calorie content of their food, some chains seem to be taking preemptive steps to cut back: The number of calories in newly introduced menu items at large U.S. chain restaurants is on the decline, according to a new study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.

Lauren Hilgers on employment agencies that can get Chinese immigrants kitchen jobs across the country in a few hours.

Pizza Hut has gotten a lot of attention lately with its Cheesy Bacon Stuffed Crust Pizza and Skinny Slice, but the company's latest move is the little slice of nostalgia we've been waiting for.

James Thomlinson got first-hand accounts of cannibalism in order to get the flavor as correct as possible. The new sandwich coincides with the premiere of ‘The Walking Dead’s’ fifth season.

Although “sushi” is often thought to mean raw fish, that’s not actually what the word means. The name actually refers to vinegared rice, and some varieties of sushi don’t contain any fish at all. Kappa maki, for example, are rolls of seaweed, rice, and cucumber, while inarizushi is made with rice and fried tofu. On the other end of the spectrum, if you’re in the mood for non-seafood sushi but also don’t want to go vegetarian, you can try horse sushi, like we recently did.

The Cuban government announced plans Friday to sell nearly 9,000 state-owned restaurants to private operators, the latest step in the communist island's economic reforms.

In the 1970s, every McDonald’s coffee came with a special stirring spoon. It was a glorious, elegant utensil -- long, thin handle, tiny scooper on the end, each pridefully topped with the golden arches. It was a spoon specially designed to stir steaming brews, a spoon with no bad intentions.

For years, long, windy menus were the fad. The more options a restaurant offered, the less likely that diners would want to go elsewhere, the thinking went. And the thinking was widespread: Everywhere from Ruby Tuesday to the Olive Garden and McDonald's obliged, channeling their inner Cheesecake Factory with menus that spanned several continents and cuisines, challenging even the sturdiest attention spans.

Pizza Hut is testing out “skinny slices” in two U.S. cities for those who are trying to cut calories without cutting their favorite foods, the Associated Press reports.

A Japanese restaurant in New York City has officially placed a ban on tipping and instead, its owners have opted to pay workers a salary with paid vacation and sick leave. Sushi Yasuda co-founder Scott Rosenberg said that customers tend to be very pleased when they realize they don’t have to tip.

No-shows for reservations are an age-old problem for restaurants. But one restaurateur thinks he has cracked the problem by replacing bookings with paid-for tickets, and he's bringing the system to the UK.

The owner of a Philadelphia burger joint has responded to criticism he has received after posting an image that allegedly shows a tiny tip left by Eagles running back LeSean McCoy. The image was posted to the Facebook page of PYT, a Northern Liberties restaurant know for unique burger combinations. It shows a receipt for a $61.56 bill with a tip of only 20 cents.

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If you want to dine at State Bird Provisions, you’ll have to get in line. The small restaurant, winner of the James Beard Award for Best New Restaurant (2013) and a Michelin Star, only accepts a few reservations that are snapped up as soon as they are released -- at midnight, sixty days in advance. So nearly every day, people line up on Fillmore Street in San Francisco an hour or more before State Bird’s 5:30pm opening time to score a table.

A friend with long experience in every corner of the Catskills predicted the rise of hickster restaurants as the wave of the future. "What the hell is a hickster?" I inquired. "Well," he said with a knowing smirk, "a hickster is just a hipster who decides to become a hick, who finally gets driven out of the city by high rents and relocates to the countryside. And then he thinks about starting a restaurant."

Four McDonald's outlets are temporarily closed due to "sanitary violations" as tensions continue between Russia and the West.

Most Chinese people have never even heard of a General Tsao, and are completely befuddled by the overly sauced fried chicken dish that Americans know as General Tsao's chicken. In fact, authentic Chinese food almost looks nothing like American Chinese food. It varies tremendously by region: Sichuan cuisine is spicy, Shangdong cuisine is generally salty and crispy, and Cantonese cuisine is sweet, for example.