When Starbucks announced on Thursday that it would shutter more than 100 coffeehouse locations across North America, the company didn’t publicly specify which stores would close. So, Business Insider has begun creating a list compiled from accounts from affected in-store staff members, reporter visits, and verification through the Starbucks “store locator” feature. While incomplete, it…
Whole Foods Market has “an always on process” for evaluating and evolving its quality standards, including which ingredients it features on or bans from its store shelves, allowing it to shape and meet fast-evolving consumer expectations and stay ahead of looming regulatory pressures. “Our quality standards are the nucleus of our brand, and the reason…
A rundown of the challenges and opportunities facing the privately held company, which moved its headquarters to Texas last year but retains design, manufacturing and other operations at its Hawthorne hub. While the world’s richest man might have breathed a sigh of relief after his Starship rocket completed a stellar launch last month, Elon Musk…
Amazon is set to pay a multi-billion-dollar fine to settle claims that it misled customers into renewing their Prime subscriptions. The Federal Trade Commission announced on Thursday that it had settled the case with a $2.5 billion fine, of which $1.5 billion will go toward refunding customers. The settlement came just days after Amazon’s trial…
Oracle’s (ORCL) massive backlog for its cloud business stunned Wall Street and cemented the company’s role as a key player in the AI market, lifting hopes that the broader AI-fueled tech rally has more room to run. Oracle said late Tuesday that its “RPO,” or remaining performance obligations, a measure of future revenue from customer…
At $8.33, this was the most expensive meal I tried. It varies by location, but McDonald’s typically stops serving breakfast between 10:30 and 11 a.m. There are two breakfast meal options at McDonald’s. First is the Big Breakfast, which comes with a biscuit, scrambled eggs, a sausage, and a hash brown. An even bigger option…
Was it a restaurant opening or a car show? On Monday, Cybertrucks and Teslas filed into the parking lot and lined around the block for the opening of the Tesla Diner: a two-story, retro-modern, steel-covered restaurant with two towering movie screens for customers to watch as they “supercharge” their cars. It marks the popular but…
An eerie quiet hung over the Fashion District in downtown Los Angeles on Thursday. Entire stretches of storefronts were shuttered. The only noise was the low thump from a boombox in front of a boba shop. At what few businesses were open, customers were few and far between. A rumor had circulated — via a…
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The beauty of claypot rice, the comfort of chicken pot pie, Panda Inn’s orange chicken redo, a Grocery Goblin’s art discoveries, pie from a cake queen, plus line-worthy sweets and a last meal at Cassia. I’m Laurie Ochoa, general manager of L.A. Times Food, with this week’s Tasting Notes. Newsletter You’re reading Tasting Notes Our…