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might have to pay a little more for this granola after sampling it recently. (hey, those end of the aisle deals at whole foods really work.)
sam mason's line of gourmet mayonnaise.
Two fat ladies on the cooking Chanel sat 10 pm / but with commercial interruption this time round.
My bro Ed is setting up a micro brew in Bangor
worlds largest rooftop greenhouse in nycs future.
Total U.S. sales in 2011 topped 347 million cases — some 4 billion bottles, more than a case of wine for every person in America. Estimated retail value: $32.5 billion, according to the Wine Institute, a leading source of U.S. wine information.
Weight watchers recipe cards from the '70's, with commentary.
Miss NYC? Russ and daughters delivers fe overnight. We just got this.
Any chance recipe for famous MB mac&cheese can be posted...?
thanks you...
as i was standing in line at the duane reade pharmacy yesterday i noticed that candy was going for $1.40 which seemed ludicrously expensive and this article backs me up on that. they used an average price of $1.14 for candy today which would translate to $.78 in 1979 (around the time i was a candy buyer) when the price was 25 cents.
Red meat issues
Chocolate skulls
Kutsher's. Underwhelming, although the veal tongue was an exception. The pastrami is absolutely shamed by Katz's, although I guess most pastrami is. Not the worst meal I've ever had but I doubt I'll go back. There may possibly be a curse on the space (previously Mai House.)
starbucks entering the juice game.
DIY kale chips rock
"pastries?"
By Tiffany Hsu
February 27, 2012, 12:32 p.m.
Restaurant visits have fallen across the country since the recession, and the bulk of those lost customers – 87% – abandoned independent eateries.
Americans ate out 60.6 billion times last year, according to research company the NPD Group. That’s down from 62.7 billion in 2008 and flat compared to 2010.
Of the 2.1 billion visits lost, 2 billion would have been to independent establishments.
Instead, consumers are patronizing larger restaurant chains, which have added 4,511 units since 2009. But from fall of 2008, more than 7,000 independent eateries have closed. Last year alone, visits to chain restaurants were up 1% while meals at standalone businesses slumped 4%.
Small restaurant operations now make up 27% of the U.S. restaurant industry after steadily losing market share to chains.
“Independent restaurant operators have neither the money nor resources that the chains have,” says Bonnie Riggs, an analyst with NPD in a statement. “They lacked the marketing power to drive traffic and the monetary buffer to get through the difficult times during the past several years.”
dontcha hate it when...