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  • Menu labeling lowers caloric intake

    According to new research, menu labeling has made more people aware of how many calories are in restaurant meals and has some people reducing their intake. The study evaluated the effects of new requirements for chain restaurants to label their menu items with their corresponding calorie content by following restaurant patrons 18 months after implementation of the law-a longer period than ...

  • Suddenly hip PBR drives up prices of cheap beers

    With Pabst Blue Ribbon catching on as "quite fashionable" among the hipster set the prices of PBR and other cheap brews are rising, according to a study cited ...

  • Bacchus increases wine holdings with DeLille Panther Creek investment

    Bacchus Capital Management LLC has boosted its wine holdings with capital investments in DeLille Cellars of Washington and the Oregon winery Panther Creek ...

  • Restaurants fear tough drunk-driving law will be buzzkill for light drinkers

    Diners have alcohol with their dinner at Paci Restaurant in Southport, Conn. on Friday, May 17, 2013. Imagine having a drink with dinner at a restaurant only to be pulled over on the way home and slapped with a DUI. That could happen under a proposed plan to toughen the drunk driving laws across the country, and it has restaurateurs alarmed.The National Transportation Safety Board wants states ...

  • Alices Restaurant walk helps fight disease

    GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. -- About 130 people have retraced Arlo Guthrie's journey immortalized in the song "Alice's Restaurant Massacree" to raise money and awareness for Huntington's disease.The six-mile "Guthrie Historic Garbage Trail Walk" now in its 13th year, runs from the former Alice's Restaurant in Stockbridge to the Guthrie Center in Great ...

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Revolutionary Road

Revolutionary Road

When Richard Yates published his first novel Revolutionary Road in 1961, it was part of a wave of social criticism that rejected the comfy conformity of the American suburban ideal of the 1950s--manicured lawns, happy housewives, and bring-home-the-bacon husbands--by ... ...

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  • Go Daddy partners with Locu on restaurant menus

    Go Daddy has partnered with a San Francisco company called Locu to give independent restaurants a new way to help diners find their menus online. Scottsdale-based Go Daddy, the worlds largest domain name registration company, has integrated Locu into its proprietary Website Builder software to make it easy for restaurants to post their menus on their websites. Locu offers hundreds of ...

  • Qatar Airways sued after drinks trolley injury

    An Australian passenger is suing Qatar Airways after he was hit by a drinks trolley, allegedly causing physical and psychological trauma, according to local newspaper The ...

  • Campbell Reports Third-Quarter Results

    CAMDEN, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Campbell Soup Company ( ) today reported its results for the third quarter of fiscal ...

  • Restaurant Cook Skips Court Again On Charges Of Filming Woman In Restroom

    who was arrested and charged with using his cell phone to surreptitiously film a woman in a restroom has failed for the second time to appear in court to answer charges in that case. Meliton Andrade, of Woodridge, was freed on $1,500 bond following his arrest. He did not appear as scheduled on April 3 or last Wednesday in Will County Circuit Court in Joliet. A bond forfeiture warrant was ...

  • Baker McCullough to lead new Saratoga Springs restaurant

    Chef Jason Baker (left) and Paul McCullough will team up at a new Saratoga Springs restaurant. Experimental chef Jason Baker and Paul McCullough, the former manager of Creo and McGuires, will open 15 Church in Saratoga Springs, NY. The restaurant is backed by developer Tom Burke of Malta-based Burke Cos. Burke paid $440,000 for the 1870s-era, three-story building and property at 15 Church St. ...

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