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The mother of a sixth grader is irate after a Hooters waitress was invited to speak at her son's school career day, comparing the incident to a California school's decision to invite Sasha Grey to read to students. More »
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America is suffering from a current lack of screens on every possible fucking surface, says no one. So it's no surprise that McDonalds is getting in on the action by launching its own in-restaurant TV channel, so its patrons taking comfort in their sandwiches made of chemicals designed to approximate meat and contemplate how much further they'd have to fall in order to hit rock bottom. More »
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It's safe to assume that the sometimes-sticky, graffiti-ridden, often-dirty play areas in places like McDonalds, Burger King, even Chuck E Cheese's are not germ-free. But how dirty are they, really? Very dirty. And filled with feces. More »
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Having the POTUS dine at your restauarant must be a rush — but also a major hassle. How, exactly, does it work? More »
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Elaine Kaufman, whose legendary NYC restaurant Elaine's attracted the likes of Mick Jagger and Woody Allen, has died from complications of emphysema. Besides running her restaurant, Kaufman appeared in movies, became a "living landmark," and gave support to her patrons. More »
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We're more than aware that jerks exist in every corner of the Internet. Yet when they turn to Yelp, they're so darn entertaining. After the jump, our six favorite kinds of hostile (and occasionally friendly) Yelp reviewer. More »
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It's strange: walking down the streets of a city, mid-recession, one will often come across what looks like a Deprression-era breadline. But upon closer inspection, it's people waiting for a table at an expensive restaurant. More »
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Count this as one for Team Human: the sushi restaurant in Huntington Beach has pulled their "me love you long time" promotion and issued an apology. RA Sushi claims they didn't know about the racist history of the phrase. [OCWeekly] More »
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If you bring your family to a Mexican restaurant in West Yorkshire, you might expect some horrible food. A receipt reading 'Thankyyou littell f*****'? Not so much. More »
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Today, Frank Bruni has a terrific piece about the dining idiosyncrasies he's encountered over the years as a professional critic. But he's never met me, or the Ordering Challenge. It will change your life, and not in a good way. More »
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Female restauranteurs are beating the recession, odds, eggs. (Sorry.) More »
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"Mad Men–style ass-pinching may have gone the way of aspic, but women, for all of their gains in the restaurant industry, are dealing with a more subtle form of sexism: visibility, or lack thereof." More »
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When it comes to today's "challenge" in the New York Times' "Dining" Section - Great Meals for Two, Under $100 (It’s Possible) - most of us could probably have given restaurant critic Frank Bruni a pointer or two. Bruni describes his task as finding "a dinner for two that was at least three courses in a restaurant structured that way — and a similar amount of food in a restaurant that wasn’t — would be $99 or less, including tax and a tip of 20 percent on the total of the check before tax." (Wine, obviously, is out of the question on this pauper's budget.) Amazingly, he manages it! We say: no one wants to deny these writers the fun of slumming it, but "experiments" like this are an insult to those of us for whom the budget he describes is a challenge of quite a different kind. Emputhee: ur duin it rong. [New York Times] More »
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FYI: You like meat. But you kind of feel bad about it, so menus have to trick you into ordering it. Oh, and you're really sensitive to harsh lighting, too. What, you didn't know? Well, according to the Times, every restauranteur does: it all comes out in a piece on the often "laughably clichéd" differences — traditional and otherwise — between diners of different sexes. More »
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