A world-renowned sushi restaurant where Barack Obama dined has been dropped from the Michelin gourmet guide. Sukiyabashi Jiro, focus of the 2011 documentary Jiro Dreams Of Sushi, has earned three Michelin stars every year since 2007. But the Tokyo restaurant has been dropped from the 2020 guide because it no …
A group of McDonald’s cooks and cashiers is suing the fast-food chain over the company’s handling of what the lawsuit presents as a “nationwide pattern” of customers attacking and harassing workers. The lawsuit, filed Thursday by 17 workers from the Chicago area, alleges that McDonald’s and its franchisees have failed …
Chick-fil-A said it would no longer donate to the Fellowship of Christian Athletes and the Salvation Army, two groups that have been criticized by LGBTQ advocates. While Chick-fil-A stopped donations to several controversial groups in 2012, it continued to work with the Fellowship of Christian Athletes and the Salvation Army on specific programs for …
Third edition of Thai guide expands to cover Chiang Mai Five restaurants got two stars but none won three stars The latest Michelin guide for Thailand increased the number of starred restaurants in the country but once again none won the top accolade of three stars. Sorn and R-Haan, both of which …
DAKAR, Senegal — The Senegalese phone salesman didn’t expect “finger lickin’ good” to be so literal. But the grease! He needed three, four, five napkins. And the American portion size left his jaw aching. “Eating KFC exhausts me,” Momar Lissa Ndiaye said. He’d wondered why people were lining up around the block …
NEW YORK (AP) — Soon after calories were posted on fast-food menus, people cut back a little bit on what they ordered. But it didn’t last. Customers at fast-food chains in Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas ordered an average of 60 fewer calories per transaction in the weeks after the figures …
Walk into any café in Porto, Portugal, and you’ll likely see one common thing on the menu: the Francesinha. This indulgent sandwich now has many variations, but they all include a stack of ham, steak, sausage, and cheese, covered in a tangy tomato sauce. It was invented in the 1950s …
The Trump administration has proposed a new rule governing the wages of tipped employees, after an earlier effort sparked a backlash from waitstaff, bartenders and other workers. The proposed rule from the Labor Department would allow employers to require more widespread sharing of tips with “back of the house” coworkers, such as …
No chance in hell that Colonel Sanders could have imagined this day when he founded his friendly chicken joint Kentucky Fried Chicken back in 1952. From that point to this very day, KFC has hawked wings, breasts and drum sticks ripped from the carcass of ever fatter farm-raised chickens. Until …
After You offers brownies, pancakes and cheesecake in cafes China’s Haidilao, Chipotle are next-best restaurant performers The world’s best-performing restaurant stock this year comes from the home of “tom yum goong” soup and pad thai. But Thailand’s After You Pcl isn’t about spicy red peppers or curry, instead it sells …
This restaurant has been a haven for D.C.’s LGBTQ community since the 1950s. Annie’s Paramount Steakhouse, located in Dupont Circle in Washington, D.C., wasn’t originally prefaced with Annie Kaylor’s name. Customers simply began using the title themselves. The exuberant bartender, sister to founder and World War II veteran George Katinas, …
(Reuters) – Vegetarian burgers may finally be getting the recognition they need to go mainstream. On Monday Burger King and Silicon Valley startup Impossible Foods announced the rollout of the Impossible Whopper in 59 stores in and around St. Louis, Missouri. To mark the launch on April Fool’s day, the …
