Save for food addicts and social butterflies, no one likes grocery shopping. But the 76-store Wegmans Food Market chain is changing that by—get this—installing casual dining pubs at its stores.
Ticked because your coupons aren’t current? Offended by surly service at the meat counter? Then take the edge off with a pint at The Pub (or [...]

You’re right, American football fans, soccer will never be as popular here as the gridiron game. But crowds gathering at restaurants and pubs this summer to watch the World Cup tournament prove “European football” is finally catching on.
What’s that? You say that’s not happening at your place? No semi-rowdy foreign jersey-clad fans arriving for a [...]

Betty White, the legendary 88-year-old comedienne on a renaissance run of late, recently hosted Saturday Night Live—an achievement she owes largely to a Facebook group that helped her get onto the show. Ironically, White didn’t even know what Facebook was until recently, when she took a look and surmised it “a huge waste of time.”
That [...]

The IRS says 20 percent of taxpayers file on April 15, and 61 percent who owe file later. That means a lot of worried citizens aren’t thinking of how they’ll manage meals for the next couple of nights. Luckily, many restaurant and hotel companies are helping.
* At the Deer Creek Inn in Nevada City, Calif., [...]

It may seem like madness to advertise in March, when every advertising channel is choked with NCAA basketball tourney pitches. But it’s in these situations that restaurant chains have proven clever in getting the word out and scoring sales.
Ruby Tuesday promised to award $1 million to anyone who submits a perfect bracket (which, given this [...]