Rats Run Wild in NYC Fast-Food Joint
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NEW YORK - When the owner's away, the rats will play. Video shot Friday morning through the window of a KFC/Taco Bell restaurant in New York caught several rats running around the floor, between counters and tables and on children's high chairs.
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NEW YORK -- A major owner of Pizza Hut, KFC, and Taco Bell franchises saw a majority of its New York City restaurants shut down yesterday as the fallout continued from a video showing rats overrunning one of its Manhattan eateries.
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NEW YORK -- Want 300-calorie fries with that? The city Board of Health voted Tuesday to approve a new version of a law requiring fast-food outlets to display calorie counts on their menus, hoping the fat-filled truth will shock New Yorkers into eating healthier.
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A Pittsburgh start-up, HyperActive Technologies Inc., is testing technology at area fast-food restaurants designed to give kitchen workers a good indication of what customers want before the hungry souls even get close enough to place an order. -AP
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A high-priced food fight has erupted in New York, with the owner of a high-end eatery seeking revenge on the city's top food critic, who dished out a brutal review complaining of rubbery pork and limp lettuce.
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June's comps suggest the fast-food giant is playing to win.
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Even cars are at risk as floods and building sites drive out rodents from their underground lairs
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Recession? At New York City's Cipriani, it's all optimism and $32 burgers.
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By Elinor J. BrecherAbout 8 every morning, Max Habermann walks a couple of blocks north from his condo in the South Pointe neighborhood to a nearby market for coffee. He passes Big Pink, the restaurant at 157 Collins Ave. He spots the dumpsters out back.
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As the rising sun danced across Florida's coastal waters, government workers in shorts and T-shirts knelt in a grassy island field and plucked wriggling rats from traps laid the night before. These weren't just any rats. They were 3-pound, 35-inch-long African behemoths. They squirmed as the workers, wearing protective gloves, removed green radio collars that had been tracking the rodents' movements.
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NEW YORK - A hawk down in midtown Manhattan? Another bird of prey grounded across town? A sheep loose in the Bronx? It wasn't shear fantasy. The odd series of animal adventures began 10 a.m.
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An obsessive, fearsome rodent assassin in Mumbai, India, is a dying breed in a city whose dreams of being rat-free recede year by year.
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Business & money: World's biggest fast food chain surprises Wall St with warning that consumers are cutting back on Big Macs
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Squirrels hit the genetic lottery with their chubby cheeks and bushy tails. It's hard to imagine picnickers tossing peanuts and cookies at the rodents if they looked like rats.
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Yum Brands Inc. has hired an urban pest control expert to review standards of its New York City restaurants, it said on Friday, a week after television cameras filmed rats scurrying around a KFC/Taco Bell.
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Rats are gnawing at beer cans and making holes in caps of whisky bottles stored in police storehouses in eastern India and apparently getting drunk, authorities said on Wednesday.
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The burgermeister's latest numbers are meatier than they seem.