10 popular McDonald's menu items that cost up to 168% more now than a decade ago

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A Big Mac, a hamburger, a fountain drink, and french fries sit on a black plastic tray while packaged in McDonald's-branded wrappers.
McDonald's has increased prices faster than other major fast-food chains since 2014.

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New York City is entering a gaudy new Gilded Age

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Lobster on a bed of Diamonds.
New York City dining has embraced a new Gilded Age with luxurious, maximalist restaurants with decadent ingredients as international as the city.

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The bars and restaurants that put the glint on New York City never stopped partying.

Some people are being given thousands of dollars with no strings attached in universal basic income trials. They mostly spend the cash wisely.

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A universal basic income is paid to all, regardless of wealth or employment status.

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GOP politicians like Ron DeSantis are trying to ban lab-grown meat, comparing it to bugs and claiming threats to ranches

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Some GOP state legislators want to ban lab-grown meat.

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IHOP-Applebee's combo restaurants could be coming, but history shows making them work could be tough

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Multi-branded restaurants, like this combination Taco Bell-Pizza Hut, have been around for decades.

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Fast-food chains like Burger King, Shake Shack, and KFC are doubling down on digital order kiosks — but watch out, you'll probably end up spending more

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Kiosks are becoming ubiquitous at fast-food locations across the US.

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I visited a McDonald's test kitchen to try its biggest menu overhaul in a decade. The burger patties are a big improvement, but the new Big Mac is too sweet.

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The new and the old Big Mac burgers.

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How one Maya chef is preserving one of the oldest forms of barbecue

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Rosalía Chay is one of the few chefs in Mexico who still cooks using an underground oven called a pib to make cochinita pibil. Maya people in the Yucatán Peninsula have prepared it this way since at least 400 AD.

A 105-year-old man who has been going to Bojangles every week for decades was thrown a surprise party for his birthday by the restaurant

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A photo of Bojangles regional manager Horace Spencer and Charlie Lentz at Lentz's 105th birthday celebrations at a Bojangles restaurant in Winston-Salem, NC in March 2024
Charlie Lentz (right) pictured at his 105th birthday celebrations at a Bojangles restaurant in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, with Bojangles regional manager Horace Spencer (left).

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Vintage photos show what it was like to eat at a diner in the 1950s

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Teenagers sitting at a diner counter circa 1950.

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