TikTokers are calling out DoorDashers using others people's accounts. 'You open the door for Ebony, and Ebony actually happens to be Steve, that's not okay!'

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Some gig delivery drivers aren't who they appear to be.

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Pret a Manger was fined $1 million after an employee was trapped in a freezer for more than 2 hours and thought she was going to die

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People walk past a branch of Pret a Manger in February 2022
Pret a Manger was fined $1 million on Tuesday.

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Burger King must face a lawsuit claiming it makes its Whoppers look much larger and meatier on its menus, a judge rules

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The lawsuit claims Burger King changed its images of Whoppers to make its meat content look twice as large.

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Self checkout could be making Americans lonelier

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People wearing coats and other cold-weather clothing scan and pay for groceries at a supermarket in New York City. Lighted signs that read
Self-checkout stations are one example of technology making Americans lonelier.

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Instacart's profitability relies in part on batching orders together — something that its gig workers hate

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A man wearing a face mask and sunglasses backwards on his head looks at a receipt while standing in front of a shopping cart at a Giant grocery store in Washington DC in 2020.
Instacart has gotten its shoppers to deliver more orders at a time for the same or less pay over the last few years.

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CloudKitchens, ghost restaurant news and updates

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Travis Kalanick.

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Instacart just filed for its IPO and revealed a plan to sell $175 million in stock to PepsiCo

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Instacart filed a prospectus, a document outlining its business and planned IPO, on Friday afternoon.

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A TikTok appears to show a Dollar Tree customer working the register herself when she can't find an employee

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Customers shop at a Dollar Tree store in the Austin neighborhood on August 02, 2022 in Chicago, Illinois.
A recent TikTok video appears to show a customer working the checkout stand at a store in Tennesse.

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The rise of Subway: the triumphant and turbulent last decades of the world's largest fast-food chain

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Subway's sales have been on the decline in recent years.

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Subway is being sold to a massive private-equity firm, finally moving the sandwich chain away from family ownership after nearly 60 years

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Subway is being bought by private-equity company Roark Capital.

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