The Pub at Wegmans might have been a reliable place to hang out on your own after a supermarket run, or with family and friends for an after-work beer, but this week it became another restaurant casualty of the coronavirus pandemic as it was announced that all locations would permanently close.
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America's iconic, checkered-overall-wearing restaurant buddy Big Boy is being replaced by a girl named Dolly. She dates back to the 1950's and is one of Big Boy's oldest friends, often interviewing famous stars.
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Walmart will be teaming up with Tribeca Enterprises, the production company founded by Robert DeNiro, to turn 160 of its parking lots across the nation into drive-in movie theaters. Walmart says their parking lot drive-ins won't roll out until August, but once they do, will run through October.
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Soon, travelers will no longer be able to grab doughnuts and coffee from Dunkin' when they fill up their tank at Speedway gas stations. Dunkin', formerly known as Dunkin' Donuts, recently put the word out that the popular chain is closing all 450 of its Speedway locations by the end of the year.
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We might not be done with the red, white, and blue desserts from the Fourth of July, but Hershey's is already looking forward to Halloween. Here's what you can look forward to this upcoming Halloween season.
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Costco has had some ups and downs over the past few months, to be sure. While not all of the changes they introduced in an attempt to keep shoppers safe were all that well-received, one change that was generally regarded as a good thing was their instituting special shopping hours just for seniors.
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Redefine Meat is replacing the constituent parts of a steak with so-called "alt-muscle," "alt-fat," and "alt-blood" in an attempt to approximate the complexity of beef. According to the company's calculations, printing one of their fake steaks takes 95 percent less land than the real thing.
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Once upon a time, IGA supermarkets carried 40 different varieties of toilet paper; it now carries just four (via The Wall Street Journal). Progresso used to make 90 different kinds of canned soup (it cut half of that inventory), and Amy's Kitchen had an organic product line of 228 products.
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It's hard not to love Taco Bell for its iconic mainstays like Baja Blast and comical hot sauce packets. However, the chain's inventive specials are brilliant enough to reel in plenty of customers, whether they're Taco Bell fanatics or not. This new burrito is no exception.
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Fast food burger chain McDonald's has recently announced it will halt its company-wide reopening plans in the wake of a spike in COVID-19 cases in the United States.
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Beloved burger chain Whataburger will forever be associated with its native Texas, and for good reason. Lately, though, they've been talking about extending their range, and Whataburger fans everywhere are thrilled to bits — especially those in Kansas City and Tennessee.
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One of the great food-related setbacks of the COVID-19 pandemic involves all the beer that went to waste when law-abiding bars closed down for a few months. The draft beer that would ordinarily have been supplied to these bars had nowhere to go, with only a limited shelf life.
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One hugely important item on the Burger King value menu is the $1 cheeseburger. On the Burger King website, the chain describes this menu item as a flame-grilled beef patty, topped with melted cheese, pickles, mustard, and ketchup on a toasted sesame seed bun.
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In April 2020, electric car manufacturer Tesla released a new feature called 'Traffic Light and Stop Sign Control' to assist drivers of the pricey vehicles with reacting to stop signs and traffic lights. This led to an interesting quandary for some drivers — and a Burger King promo.
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Like Shaq himself, Papa John's new pizza is sized and styled to feed one larger-than-life athlete, or several humans, in most cases. The 16-inch pizza has extra cheese than, and 66 slices of pepperoni. It's also cut into eight slices instead of ten because, you know, hungry athlete.
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Costco's food court now has vanilla soft serve ice cream. While there hasn't been an official nationwide rollout of the creamy frozen treat, photos of ice cream at Costco and its food court menu have been popping up all over social media during the last days of June.
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Stouffer's has just announced the coming of Mac on Tap, a food dispenser that pours warm mac and cheese like beer, which you may recognize as the ultimate comfort drink, as countless bar tabs can probably attest. Here's what you need to know.
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After a last ditch effort to save itself from collapsing, CEC Entertainment, which owns Chuck E. Cheese and Peter Piper Pizza, has filled for bankruptcy protection and will close 34 more locations — including 5 in California, 4 in Florida, 4 in Massachusetts, 3 in Ohio, and 3 in Oklahoma.
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Aldi's alcohol game is surprisingly good. From delicious wines year-round to light and fruity sangrias for spring, the budget grocery chain tends to roll out exactly the boozy concoction we didn't know we needed at just the right time. Their new offering is one that will definitely fit the bill.
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When Amber Lynn Gilles was refused service at a San Diego Starbucks for not wearing a mask, she put barista Lenin Gutierrez on blast, posting his picture on her Facebook feed. Her attempt to shame the barista, though, has backfired.
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It may not be too difficult to find free coffee — but chances are you'd be drinking mud-colored water, or something so strong you might be able to use to clean a dirty oven with it. Free good coffee is another story. For that, Panera is hoping you'll head over to their site on.
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While most McDonald's restaurants are pretty ho-hum affairs, the Mickey D's at West 42nd Street in Times Square was four stories and 17,500 square feet of opulence, with a marquee lit up in 7,000 lights. But the flagship store is shuttering, and it's not because of the pandemic.
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IHOP is making a change that might not be welcomed too warmly by true IHOP aficionados, but may ultimately improve the restaurant's profit margin: Fox News reports that IHOP will be reducing their 12-page menu to one that is just two pages in size.
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If you're into sports, then you know some of the greatest to ever play their games: Tiger Woods in golf, Michael Jordan in basketball, Tom Brady in football. But the biggest GOAT (greatest of all time) may be Joey "Jaws" Chestnut. His sport: hot-dog eating.
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When we buy bottled water, we do so on the assumption the stuff we pay for is better than the liquid that comes out of our taps, but that doesn't seem to be the case with Whole Foods' Starkey Spring Water. With 9.49 to 9.56 parts per billion of arsenic, Starkey is slightly below the federal limit.
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The next time you go to Target to pick up your toilet paper and pet food, chances are you'll also be able to pick up orders from a list of about 750 fresh and frozen grocery items, all of which can either be delivered right to your car, or picked up from inside the store.
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In an effort to expand their Starbucks drink creations with fewer calories, the secret menu rockstars behind Totally the Bomb have created a treat that would fit in perfectly alongside Elle Wood's lounge chair on the Harvard lawn. Yes, there is now a Legally Blonde Starbucks secret menu drink.
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