If you like eating mediocre food while surrounded by weird crap, there was no better time to be alive than the 1990s. That’s when theme restaurants exploded, growing from a novelty into a multimillion dollar industry. The enormous popularity of chains like the Hard Rock Cafe and Planet Hollywood inspired countless restauranteurs and wealthy financiers to try … Read more
Annecy fundamental comoetition contender “Dying Does Not Exist” is a political movie. And Quebec director Félix Dufour-Laperrière isn’t afraid to confess it. “There’s urgency to redistribute wealth. There’s urgency to maintain this world respectable. I’m a father of two: a middle-class white man with a good looking household, and considered one of my deepest wishes … Read more
The fast food business is more cutthroat than an island inhabited by Geena Davis and Matthew Modine. The big chains constantly develop new menu items to generate publicity and steal new and lapsed customers from their competitors. Sometimes those new items hit in a big way and become permanent additions to a restaurant’s menu. But more often … Read more