Chewing The Fat: Wednesday Ground 'Round

Restaurant-ing through History has a nifty bit of nostalgia about the old automats that served Philly and New York starting in the early 20th Century. You can think of automats as part vending machine, part post office, walls of little windows where customers deposited coins and then opened the door to get everything from a lobster soups to bottled beer. It's bound to stage a comeback. A short-lived comeback.

Ever try that Dr Pepper made with real sugar, the stuff outta Dublin (TX)? Now it turns out they're ahead of the curve as other brands are turning real sugar into a marketing trend.