Italian-food-from-a-plastic-bladder eatery and suburban hellscape staple* Olive Garden is revamping its image: by making its signage more closely resemble the sort of label you might see on a jumbo-sized package of dye-free 100% organic disposable diapers.
Serious female sports fans are neither new nor novel, but that hasn't stopped one new sports bar "for women" from treating them as such by attempting to attract patrons with walls the color of a Barbie aisle and fancy sparkly chandeliers.
Over the weekend, a couple brought their eight month old child to Alinea, a Chicago restaurant headed by Chef Grant Achatz that has 3 Michelin stars. Alinea is considered one of the best restaurants in the country/world, and is heralded for its complex prix fixe tasting menu that runs over $200 and is purchased with…
On one hand, this place looks dope as hell. I finish five plates and I get a toy? Hell yes.
Well, this is fucking disgusting. Or maybe it's genius? Or maybe it's just the first honest restaurant in America? Either way, I hate it and I can't wait to eat there.
Someone (someone awesome/probably mean) thought it was a good idea to put famously angry tong and fork-wielding man Gordon Ramsey on a reality competition show featuring child contestants. Swearing (predictably) ensued. For the aid of joke-conveyance, I will be capitalizing and asterisking all cooking related puns in…
It's been almost exactly six months since Hooters announced their stupid plan
By now, you've no doubt seen the viral story about the Washington state family, who, after dining out Italian with their three young pods aged 2, 3, and 8, received a bill with a $4 "well-behaved kids" discount and some free ice cream as a reward. The Internet, in love with a simple platitude that purports to explain…
I spent most of my college life waiting tables. The heftiest chunk of that time was at the Chevy's in Times Square, where I spent weekends and evenings singing their bastardized version of "Happy Birthday" to the legions of yahoos who lied about it being their birthdays so they could get a free cartoon sombrero. I worked …
Here's the most nouveau riche crap you've seen in awhile. This commercial for STK restaurants is just... it's the sort of thing someone who made a lot of money selling mc mansions would make. Just super fucking tacky, and attempting to "wink" at the viewer, but failing miserably. The takeaway here is: STK. It's AXE body …
Show me a woman who works in the service industry and doesn't have horror stories about being treated like crap by her male employers/coworkers/customers and I'll show you my winning Powerball jackpot ticket. Is it surprising that three former servers who used to work at La Fogata, a Mexican restaurant and bar in…
A fancy French restaurant in Boston is serving a serious side of sass with their pumpkin pie. Well, maybe it's more ass than sass but I wanted to employ some alliteration.
Hooters execs think they can convince women to accompany their husbands inside their breastaurants without altering the server's "iconic uniforms" or the restaurant's cheesy sexism.
Want a side of sexual harassment with your dinner? Twenty-two former employees who say it's a permanent part of the seasonal menu at Juventino, a successful restaurant in Brooklyn's Park Slope area, are sharing their stories on the internet in hopes they can give a voice to women everywhere who think that being groped, …
A 15-year-old visually-impaired girl from the far-flung New Orleans suburb of Mandeville recently noticed a really frustrating trend in the local restaurant industry — hardly anybody was offering braille menus, which means that visually-impaired diners either have to listen to a menu-long recitation from a patient…
Hooters-like restaurants are are in the midst of a renaissance — the top three so-called "breastaurant" chains behind Hooters each grew by at least 30 percent last year, according to Technomic, which means that we can all look forward to such cleverly-named eateries as Twin Peaks, Tilted Kilt Pub & Eatery, and the more…
Unless you're a hipster and want to take your mom to Hooters for Mother's Day dinner with an ironic attitude that might be just as offensive as a handsy drunk dude is to your beleaguered waitress, you might not want to take advantage of the famous wing-slinging eatery's Mother's Day special: a free order of 10 boneless …
A former employee of one of Paula Deen's restaurants has alleged that the Baroness of Butter and her brother Bubba Hiers have been cooking something besides candied vegetables and deep fried ham fat in their restaurant's kitchen: piping hot racism and from-scratch sexual harassment. Mmm. Just like Mom used to make.…
Alexis Madrigal at The Atlantic has an interesting piece on a new gadget called "The Presto" that might replace waiters at restaurants across the country. It works well for customers, since it's a menu, a way to order food, and a method for paying the check all in one Kindle-like package, and it can save restaurants…
Applebee's may be great place to wash down your cheese-infused dinner with an Oreo milkshake (they still have those, yes?), but, according to an undercover reporter who spent time on the prep line at one of the popular restaurant chains, its male-dominated kitchens simmer with sexual aggression.
