Rating restaurants is a business and a fairly large one. Newspapers like The New York Times, employ full-time food critics. Magazines like Food & Wine publish lists every year. Among the most highly regarded ratings is the Michelin Guide which covers restaurants all over the world. Oddly enough, it was […]

New York, NY (CNN)National fast food chain Raising Cane’s Chicken Fingers has a new solution to the restaurant industry’s labor shortage — it’s asking corporate employees to work as fry cooks and cashiers. The privately-held Baton Rouge, La.-based company has a total of 750 corporate employees, 500 in its Dallas […]

Wholesale gas prices have increased 400% this year in Europe, partly due to low stocks and strong demand from Asia, putting particular pressure on energy intensive industries.  Industry bosses held talks on Friday with business minister Kwasi Kwarteng but said these ended with no immediate solutions. Britain's most energy intensive […]

‘There are some high-frequency indicators where uptick is visible and some where it is not’ After announcing the monetary policy resolution, RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das and Deputy Governors Michael Debabrata Patra, Mayank Jain, M Rajeshwar Rao and T Rabi Sankar, spoke to the media on issues ranging from the withdrawal […]

Obesity has become an epidemic in America. The new Obesity Prevalence Map from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows that 35% or more of the adults in 16 states suffered from obesity. Most of these were in the South or Midwest. In some states, the figure was […]

Cases have been steadily declining since the country's most recent peak of about 172,500 average daily infections on Sept. 13. It's the first time daily cases have dropped below 100,000 since early August. About 69,000 Americans are currently in the hospital with Covid, down from nearly 104,000 on Sept. 1, […]

NBCUniversal parent Comcast and publicly traded cable stocks dropped Friday on Wall Street fears of slowing broadband growth post-Covid after the industry rode a wave of new signups. Broadband, as in high-speed internet service, has been the counterbalance to a narrative of cord cutting and the declining video bundle. And […]

Climate change poses a serious threat to U.S. military operations and will lead to new sources of global political conflict, the Department of Defense wrote in its new climate plan. Water shortages could become a primary source of friction or conflict between U.S. military overseas and the countries where troops […]

As a dietitian, I always tell people to think of the brain as the mastermind behind almost everything — our thoughts, memory, focus, movements, breathing, heartbeat — and that certain foods can help make it stronger, sharper and smarter. Our brain and diet also play a key role in longevity. […]

President Biden's spending plan could lead to a tax on stock buybacks, with a Senate plan to add a 2% excise tax potentially raising as much as $100 billion over a decade. While the tax could strike a balance between determent and government revenue needs, it is not nearly high […]