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...chain of casual-dining fern bars. Amid sky-high gas and food prices and tightening consumer spending, the chain's Texas-based parent company declared bankruptcy July 29, saying it would shutter 150 eateries. While the franchise outlets remain open for now, Americans who want to peruse oversize menus for oversize portions of unremarkable food in unremarkable settings may soon have to check out Applebee's or Chili's. Or Ruby Tuesday or T.G.I. Friday's. Or the scores of other family-style restaurants serving deep-fried mozzarella sticks beneath hypnotically rotating ceiling fans...
...Thomas Frieden, is one of the most effective in the country: under Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Frieden has successfully implemented citywide bans on smoking in bars and restaurants and artificial trans fats, and recently got a city law passed to force fast food restaurants to display calorie counts on menus...
...that my wife and I sat down for lunch with Buffett in a cozy, wood-paneled alcove of the Manhattan steakhouse Smith & Wollensky. Mohnish brought along his wife and two daughters, who sat on either side of Buffett. When the menus arrived, Buffett, now 77 years old, joked with the girls that he doesn't eat anything he wouldn't touch when he was less than 5. His order: a medium-rare steak with hash browns and a cherry coke - a fitting choice, given that his company, Berkshire Hathaway, is Coca-Cola's largest shareholder...
...success, says Jacob Aqraou, general manager of eBay's classified division, is an improved user interface and a more vigilant approach to scaring off scammers and spammers. Whereas Craigslist feels hippie and homegrown, Kijiji features niceties such as images that appear in search results by default and more intuitive menus for refining your search. To drum up interest, eBay also spammed millions of its most active members when Kijiji's U.S. site launched in June...
...undereating disorders. But sandwiched between those who eat far too much and those who voluntarily eat too little are millions of American teens in the moderate middle. Because their eating habits are varied and so difficult to study, it's easy to lose track of what's on their menus--but it's worth trying to find out. In a few years, those teens will be making food decisions not just for themselves but also for their own kids...