Can AI take your order? Welcome to the restaurant of the future.

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A robot serving popcorn

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Chipotle used to be a dream gig. Then employees started singing the burrito bowl blues.

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Chipotle signage.

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The CEOs of Din Tai Fung think robots would ruin their iconic soup dumplings

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Din Tai Fung's offerings.
Din Tai Fung is leaving dumpling-making to humans for now.

Din Tai Fung

How Wall Street unwinds: The 7 Hamptons hot spots to know this summer

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Hamptons beach house
A beach house in the Hamptons

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The clever way that Domino's is making AI feel more real — and better at taking your pizza order

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A man holds a pizza box in a navy heat-saving bag. The pizza box says
A Domino's pizza being delivered

Gabrielle Bienasz

The latest change you'll see at Starbucks: a new barista dress code

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A Starbucks barista working at an espresso machine.
Starbucks will start requiring baristas to wear black shirts under their green aprons.

AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson, File

I've taken my family to 5 major steakhouse chains in the US. We enjoyed most, but one is the best by a landslide.

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Author Terri Peters smiling outside of a Texas Roadhouse
My family has been to many steakhouse chains, including Texas Roadhouse.

Terri Peters

I went to Red Lobster and saw how much work its new CEO has to make the chain cool again

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A Red Lobster restaurant in Maryland.
The entrance to the Red Lobster.

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Sorry, rich New Yorkers — there's no more legal black market for restaurant reservations

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Ardesia, a wine bar in NYC, photographed in 2022.
A new crackdown on third-party reservation vendors is an effort to democratize New York's restaurant scene.

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Starbucks' new CEO said he wants to improve work for its baristas. They aren't happy yet.

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A Starbucks barista works at an espresso machine
Roughly 10,000 Starbucks baristas are close to going on strike.

AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson, File

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