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  • Comparing the Minimum Wage Across Europe Using the Price of a Big Mac
    Comparing the Minimum Wage Across Europe Using the Price of a Big Mac

    Yesterday Portugal announced it was increasing the country's minimum wage. How will its €505 per month compare to other countries in Europe? We've used The Economist's Big Mac index to find outYesterday Portugal announced it ...

  • Servers Seek Raise, Restaurant Owners Defend Tip System
    Servers Seek Raise, Restaurant Owners Defend Tip System

    State law say servers can be paid less than the minimum wage as long as tips make up the difference.

  • Fast-Food Economics - Can Workers be Paid More?
    Fast-Food Economics - Can Workers be Paid More?

    American fast-food workers often earn about $7.25 an hour to make the $3 chicken sandwiches and 99-cent tacos that generate billions of dollars in profit each year for McDonald's, Taco Bell and other chains.Thousands of ...

  • Fast Food Protestors Handcuffed Demanding Higher Pay
    Fast Food Protestors Handcuffed Demanding Higher Pay

    Police handcuffed dozens of protesters who blocked traffic in dozens of cities across the country in their latest attempt to escalate efforts to get McDonald's, Burger King and other fast-food companies to pay employees at ...

  • No-Tip Restaurant Offers Food for Thought
    No-Tip Restaurant Offers Food for Thought

    Does a 'no-tip model' in a restaurant mean happier staff and, ultimately, happier guests?

  • Fat Is Not the Enemy
    Fat Is Not the Enemy

    A group of Harvard scientists has waged war against the low-fat diet myth, singling out the muffin as its first target.For decades, full fat has been cast as a villainous food group, with manufacturers clamoring ...

  • Indian Scientists Use Neem Protein to Fight Cancer
    Indian Scientists Use Neem Protein to Fight Cancer

    The medicinal power of the humble neem, widely used in India as an insecticide and germicide, is now being channelised by a group of Kolkata scientists to wage a war against cancer.The team of researchers ...

  • Fast-Food Workers in NYC Stage Strikes, Rallies
    Fast-Food Workers in NYC Stage Strikes, Rallies

    Workers at McDonald's, Burger King and Wendy's restaurants across New York walked out Monday in a one-day strike to demand better pay and the right to unionize, calling for minimum wage to more than double ...

  • Chefs fight for the right to serve their pork pink
    Chefs fight for the right to serve their pork pink

    Gourmets say rare meat tastes better as inspectors warn of potentially fatal virus in undercooked meatFoodies have waded into the battle being waged against rare meat by championing the delights of "pink pork", which environmental ...

  • A Christmas Cookie Quarrel Waged With Butter
    A Christmas Cookie Quarrel Waged With Butter

    Good cooks know their strengths, which is why I thought Julia Moskin would understand she had no business making Christmas cookies. Christmas cookies are the pop-culture expression of the biggest Christian holiday in America. A ...

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