An English professor from Manhattan was forcibly ejected from an Upper West Side Starbucks after refusing to order her bagel “without butter or cheese,” which she claimed was linguistically stupid.
[NY Post]
Fruits and vegetables are ripening early this year due to warm weather, likely leading some farms to harvest fall crops before Labor Day.
[Wall Street Journal]
Kids’-style birthday parties for adults are all the rage. Betsey Johnson, Charles Rangel, and Tracy Morgan are among celebrities leading the trend.
[NY Post]
More and more restaurants are accepting cash only as a means to avoid paying credit-card fees and perhaps even fudge their books.
[NY Post]
The Great Atlantic & Pacific, or the A&P, once a market leader, now runs just 429 stores in eight states, and is paring down those numbers even further.
[Time]
Following in the footsteps of the makers of Hunt’s ketchup, Gatorade, and Starbucks’ pastries, Sara Lee is the latest food corporation to cut down on high-fructose corn syrup.
[Chicago Tribune]
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