Food and Drinks

Forget the partridge in a pear tree, Sam’s Club just released a much more practical gift for celebrating “The Twelve Days of Christmas.”

Maybe not the best idea for breakfast, though.

Coca-Cola is teaming up with beer giant Molson Coors to offer its first ever alcoholic drink in the country.

In both farming and friendship, you reap what you sow.

Walmart is strengthening its retail partnership with Beyond Meat as retailers like Kroger, Whole Foods and more ramp up plant-based meat offerings.

An explosive wildfire that's raging in areas north of San Francisco has damaged iconic landmarks in the famed Napa Valley region, including wineries and parts of a luxury resort.

A teenage McDonald’s employee from Ohio is being celebrated for the random act of kindness he bestowed on a customer.

A fiscal impact study conducted in 2017, before the ban was officially passed, estimated that the minimum financial impact for Maryland could be roughly $41 million dollars, with affected businesses, organizations and consumers in the state estimated to spend an additional $34.9 million annually to replace the restricted products.

IHOP is offering a new incentive for customers who might be on the fence about “pancaking together” again.

Spirits giant Diageo, owner of Johnnie Walker and Smirnoff, expects sales to improve through the end of the year as coronavirus restrictions ease.

Grocers are looking to beef up their inventory ahead of the upcoming holiday shopping season and in preparation for a potential second wave of COVID-19.

St. Louis-based restaurant Lona’s Lil Eats filed a lawsuit against DoorDash this week, saying the delivery company has been incorrectly listing non-partner restaurants as “too far away.”

Maine's lobster fishermen braced for a difficult summer this year because of the coronavirus pandemic, but then the unexpected happened. They kept catching lobsters, and people kept buying them.

In New York City’s Upper West Side, Café du Soleil has taken to the forefront of creative problem-solving with plastic bubble dining pods dubbed as “space bubbles” to cushion the transition to colder and more hostile climates. 

Darden Restaurants CEO Gene Lee told investors Thursday that the Times Square Olive Garden is hemorrhaging money amid the pandemic.

The employee reportedly says she was let go from the company after a white customer threatened to call Whataburger’s corporate office about her Black Lives Matter mask, which after a series of events led her managers to fire her and call the police on her. 

The National Confectioners Association recently reported that Halloween candy and chocolate sales were up 13%.

In a unanimous vote Tuesday night, the Berkeley City Council passed the “healthy checkout” ordinance, which will prohibit large grocery stores from selling food and beverages deemed unhealthy in a 3-foot radius from the checkout. 

These days, the pandemic is determining how and what we eat, from quick shortcuts to slow cookers.

McDonald's is reportedly testing out a new food rewards program to boost sales during the pandemic.