Greece's brilliant marketers have resorted to adding the "visit Greece" slogan on seven million placemats that will grace the tables of thousands of diners up and down the Northeast corridor of the United States. Dumfounded describes my initial reaction.
Tom Morris | Posted 01.09.2012
I started off with a huge plate of pulled pork and beef brisket, accompanied by fried okra, potato salad, sweet collard greens, Brunswick Stew, and thick toast, all washed down with two or three bottles of Bud Light on tap. You have to cut your calories somewhere.
Cynthia Kounaris | Posted 11.25.2011
All big businesses started as small businesses -- from Ford to Apple, from General Electric to McDonald's. They were started by entrepreneurs, by people with a dream and the drive to make it happen.
Charlie Carillo | Posted 07.24.2011
I walk into the joint and I'm shocked to see that it's turned into one of those coffee shops heavy on the raw wood. There are loads of coffees to choose from on the blackboard, most of them ending in "cino."
Josh Ozersky | Posted 05.25.2011
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Jordana Zizmor | Posted 05.25.2011
You can eat all the datenut and cream cheese sandwiches you want but that won't change the fact that things are just not the way they use to be.
Bill Barol | Posted 05.25.2011
Is glory real if it's anonymous? That's one of the questions raised by today's front-page New York Times obit for Leslie Buck, the designer of the iconic Anthora to-go cup.
usatoday.com | Posted 05.25.2011
As summer approaches, two chains, Sonic Drive-In and Ruby's Diner, are re-embracing carhops on roller skates whose jobs are as much to entertain exper...
Nick Carr | Posted 05.25.2011
Recently, I've been scouting New York looking for Detroit (don't ask), a search that ultimately led me to northern Jersey and the White Mana Diner -- originally created for the 1964 World's Fair in Flushing.
Jon Chattman | Posted 05.25.2011
A few years back, I went to a nearby diner for some iced coffee and was turned down on a refill. Why is it coffee coming from the same pot can be bottomless yet tossing in a few ice cubes makes it not so?
The New York Times | Florence Fabricant | Posted 05.25.2011
Restaurants that once served two distinct meals a day, lunch and dinner, are acting more like diners, opening early in the morning and keeping their k...
Gregory C. Pappas | Posted 02.07.2012