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Detroit Food Systems Under The Microscope

The Huffington Post | Kate Abbey-Lambertz | Posted 04.05.2012

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It took journalist Tracie McMillan five months and 115 phone calls to line up the job she was striving for: a produce stocker at Walmart. For her ...

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KARAOKE KO: Applebee's Singer Strips, Punches Manager After Bad Review

The Huffington Post | Andy Campbell | Posted 03.19.2012

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He must have been singing Creed. A man knocked out a manager of a Florida Applebee's late Sunday after employees cut him off during his one-man sho...

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Man Arrested After Taking Date To Applebees

Posted 03.16.2012

Read More: Video, Anthony Maldanado, Miami News, Burglary During Date, Miami Crime, Man Robs Woman's House During Date, Applebee's, Romeo Burglary, Miami News

A Miami man was arrested for taking a date to a Coral Springs Applebee's while his accomplice robbed her home. Using the alias Florenciano Valentin...

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Group Brings Guns To Applebee's To Support Open Carry Laws

Posted 03.13.2012

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On Saturday night in Ridley Township, Penn., more than 30 gun owners entered Applebee's, all carrying their weapons. They weren't aiming to bother any...

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Going Undercover in the Belly of Our Beastly Food Chain

Kerry Trueman | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Healthy Eating, Walmart, Labor, Cooking, The American Way of Eating, Migrant Farmworkers, Tracie McMillan, Unions, Industrial Agriculture, Applebee's, Farm Workers, Food News
Kerry Trueman

From the fields of California's Central Valley to the produce aisle of a Michigan Walmart, and lastly, the kitchen of a Brooklyn Applebee's, Tracie McMillan gives a firsthand account of the long hours, lousy wages and difficult conditions that are par for the course in these places.

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Disgrunted Applebee's Employees Allowed To Bring Minimum Wage Suit To Trial

Posted 01.18.2012

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Applebee's may be, as its motto alleges, a place for "Eatin' good in the neighborhood." But if the legal arguments brought forth by a group of restaur...

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I'm With Stupid: Ho, Ho the Mistletoe, Blasted Where You Can See

Todd Hartley | Posted 02.11.2012

Read More: Traditions, Shotguns, National Geographic, Applebee's, Christmas, Southerners, Georgia, Mistletoe, Weird News News
Todd Hartley

Here's what I know about Southern folk, based on my 41 years' experience knowing and being related to some of them.

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Woman Sues After Finding Detached Fingertip In Her Salad

Posted 11.08.2011

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Mealbreaker (n.): a nasty, non-edible surprise found in food while it is being eaten; often lawsuit-provoking, sometimes fabricated, always disgusting...

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Applebee's Food Truck Kills Mobile Dining's Street Cred For Good

Posted 10.05.2011

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It was a little embarrassing for food truckdom when Jack in the Box opened its own food truck this March. But at least the JATB truck tried to mask it...

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The Five Worst Chain Restaurant Cocktails

Zagat | By Kelly Dobkin | Posted 08.01.2011

Read More: Gross Beverages, Chain Restaurant Drinks, Drinks, Planet Hollywood, Chain Restaurants, Alcohol, Beverages, Hard Rock Cafe, Applebee's, TGI Fridays, Food News

Chain restaurants: while they're most often associated with overly perky flair-wearing servers and greasy, nature-defying menu items (read: boneless b...

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Another Child Served Booze At Major Chain?

Slashfood | Posted 06.20.2011

Read More: Chilis, Children Served Alcohol, Chain Restaurants, Applebee's, Alcohol, The Olive Garden, Food News

In what can only be described as a bizarre and unintentional trend in the chain restaurant industry, yet another child was accidentally served alcohol...

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Applebee's Enters Crisis Control After Waiter Serves Toddler Alcohol

Posted 06.11.2011

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CHICAGO (Reuters) - The company that owns the Applebee's restaurant chain said Monday it was immediately retraining its workers nationwide after a...

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Americans' 15 Favorite Restaurant Chains: Cheesecake Factory Tops List

The Huffington Post | Joe Daly and Colin Sterling | Posted 05.25.2011

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Nation's Restaurant News has published the findings of a new Market Force a ("customer experience management firm") survey that asked Americans to ran...

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Applebees, Krispy Kreme, Other Chains Offer Free Food To Military On Veterans Day

Posted 05.25.2011

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Several restaurant chains are offering active duty military free meals or other products on Veterans Day. Applebee's is offering free meals with proo...

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Campaign Ad or Ad Campagin?

Aemilia Scott | Posted 05.25.2011

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Aemilia Scott

To keep us from making some unhealthy choices in the future, presidential campaigns need to be read with the eye of the consumer.

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Fast Food Restaurants Go On A Diet

USA Today Via ABC News | Bruce Horovitz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Weight Watchers, Fast Food, Jack in the Box, Diets, "Skinny" Lattes, Sonic, Starbucks, Applebee's, Panera Bread, Business News

For the millions of Americans who entered 2008 a bit flabbier -- and made that perennial resolution to shed poundage -- some of the most familiar eate...

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