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I'm No Business Writer, But I Loves Me Some Pancakes
July 17, 2007Servers Fight Back Against Cheapskate Chili's
July 16, 2008The Unwanted Girl Next Door
August 19, 2008Breakfast Buffet: Tuesday, 8/19
August 19, 2008The $3 Wendy's Breakfast
October 16, 2008Drive-through coffee: We need Java Girls!
October 30, 2008Load That Plate Up, Up and Away
It takes special eating power to get through Super Buffet.
August 17, 2000Mouthing Off
July 27, 2000Best Quiet Place for a Cool Drink
October 19, 2000Seven Layers of Sin
January 4, 2001A Capital Grille Offense
March 15, 2001Plaza library dishes out hamburgers and their history
Author Andrew F. Smith (on the right) getting ready to go on stage.One of the most interesting statistics in Andrew F. Smith's book Hamburger: A Global History is that one in eight people in America have worked at McDonald's. While I am not part of that 12.5 percent (Smith is) I'm interested in McDonald's and the hamburger story, which is why I went to hear him speak at the Plaza Library. The e-mail about free Westport Flea Market burgers also didn't hurt.As advertised, the Flea Market was givin
January 14, 2009Best Steak
October 18, 2001Best Calamari
October 18, 2001Cast-Off Cafes
February 7, 2002Check, Please
August 15, 2002Best Waitress
October 17, 2002Best Waiter
October 17, 2002Best Vegan Bar Food
October 17, 2002Macaroni Grill cuisine...to make at home
There's only one Romano's Macaroni Grill in the Kansas City metro: at 9292 Metcalf in Overland Park. The popular Italian restaurant chain, owned by by conglomerate Brinker International (Chili's, On the Border Mexican Grill), has a bigger presence in St. Louis, where there are five locations. My friend Bob loves the restaurant's Chicken Marsala, which is made with chicken sauteed in sweet marsala wine, roasted garlic and portobello mushrooms served over cappellini pasta. A single
February 5, 2009IHOP flips another executive off the griddle
California-based DineEquity Inc., which owns the IHOP and Kansas City-based Applebee's restaurant chains, announced that Desmond Hague, the president of the 51-year-old national pancake chain formerly known as International House of Pancakes is, in a matter of speaking, getting flipped out of the corporation. Hague is officially retiring next week with, according to DineEquity, "the intent of pursuing a chief executive officer position at another company." As today's story by Reuters report
February 12, 2009Best Place to Buy Live Frogs
October 9, 2003Best Snobby New York Commentary on a Kansas City Export
October 9, 2003Union Specific
October 30, 2003Worden Up
February 12, 2004Counter Intelligence
June 24, 2004Spin the Bottle
September 23, 2004Best Place to Escape the Crowds on First Fridays
October 7, 2004Word of Mouth
April 28, 2005A Chili's Effect
July 21, 2005Darden Restaurants finally post calorie information online
Flckr: William HartzWhile nutritional information must be present on packaged food and beverages, until recently there were no laws requiring restaurant chains to disclose the same information. Most chains released information voluntarily but several did not. Darden Restaurants, the holding company for Olive Garden and Red Lobster, gave out virtually no nutritional information. Quietly, it's finally changed that policy.
March 30, 2009Table for Toe
November 16, 2006Copy Cat
December 21, 2006Downtown, Unchained
January 4, 2007Lisa Sandell
May 10, 2007So Long, Iliki
Surrounded by the Northland's boom, the Iliki Café's owners close up shop to create a boom of their own.
December 14, 2006KC Disasterpiece
Barbecue baron Rich Davis and his saucy sons have left plenty of people feeling burned.
July 21, 2005House of Toys
P.F. Chang's continues to reign as a Plaza hot spot.
November 21, 2002Stock Brokers
It's a short ride from Western Sizzlin' to the LongHorn Steakhouse.
November 9, 2000Salad Daze
Sweet Tomatoes Salad Buffet resurrects a hippie concept of questionable value.
July 13, 2000Fast-food nation, again
Every time America talks about getting in shape and cutting down on obesity, some negative Nancy has to come along with data showing that we're actually eating at fast-food restaurants more. This time that naysayer is a research company called Experian Simmons which just released a study (pdf) of the fast-food industry covering a mammoth five-year time period.Flickr: Major ConfusionSadly the results are not surprising. While Americans' visits to fast-food restaurants slightly declined from 2004
April 21, 2009Calories coming soon to a menu near you
Recently, Maine became the third state to enact a calories-on-menu law for restaurant chains. Similar bills have been adopted in such large cities as New York, Philadelphia and Seattle. The restaurant industry has loudly protested these bills -- and sometimes made itself look foolish. Such as when Dunkin' Donuts said that putting calories on its menu would make the type too small only to have the New York Health Department redesign the menu showing the chain could easily use a larger, easy-to-re
June 16, 2009Fast food logic
Always give the menus at fast food restaurants a second glance because they are often more complicated than they seem. Reporter Jennifer 8. Lee found that out yesterday when she went to a McDonald's and noticed that four chicken McNuggets for 99 cents was a better value than 10 for $4 or 20 for $7. For those keeping score, that's 25 cents, 40 cents and 35 cents per nugget.A McDonald's spokesperson told Lee that the bigger sizes were useful for people who wanted an exact amount or didn't want to
June 18, 2009Fast food industry readying for next month's minimum wage hike
Only July 24, the federal minimum wage will increase 11 percent to $7.25. And even though more than half the states in the country have a minimum wage that's higher than that, fast food restaurants are worried it will mean the end of profits. As a restaurant economist tells CNN Money, even in normal times "profit margins for an average fast-food company stand around 4 percent before tax." And these aren't normal times. Although fast food restaurants have stayed busy during the recession, the mov
June 24, 2009Best Barbecue 2008 -- South: Fiorella's Jack Stack Barbecue
January 8, 2009Eat and Roll
November 20, 2008Would you like some sweet potato fries with that?
Fries used to be an afterthought -- the sidekick to hamburgers or hot dogs. And although you're still likely to find a frozen bag of Sysco fries next to the deep-fat fryer in diners and casual-dining restaurants, french fries have become a serious selling point for burger chains. Endless french fries slowly coat your arteries at Red Robin, while Chick-fil-A offers waffle cut fries with a healthy sprinkling of salt and pepper. Sonic takes a cue from Napoleon Dynamite and features ta
August 31, 2009When TGI Fridays used to be cool
When I lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts, there was a dearth of bars open past midnight. This is often the reason that nobody gets into too much trouble after a night of drinking in Boston -- you're home by the time you would normally be up to no good. But there was one bar that was open until 1 a.m. and that was the bar at TGI Fridays. With oversized mugs and free peanuts -- it was a perfectly functional bar, however, it was definitely not cool. This is not where singles would go to meet and
September 2, 2009When TGI Fridays was cool
When I lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts, few bars were open past midnight. Not many people got into trouble after a night of drinking -- we were home by the time we'd have otherwise been up to no good. But there was one bar that was open until 1 a.m. and that was the bar at TGI Fridays. With oversized mugs and free peanuts, it was a perfectly functional bar even though it was definitely not cool. This was not where singles would go to meet; it would not be the site of a memorable evening. Th
September 3, 2009Lose weight by moving closer to fast food joints
It sounds counterintuitive, but a new study suggests that living closer to fast food restaurants may actually reduce your chances for obesity. The University of Utah discovered that people are less at risk for obesity when there are food options within walking distance, even if those options include convenience stores and fast food restaurants. On the flip side, people living more than a half of a mile from grocery stores or restaurants were more likely to be overweight. "Having access
October 29, 2009
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