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In-N-Out improves the quality of their food

In-N-Out improves the quality of their food

Why does Coca-Cola at McDonald's taste so much better than elsewhere?

What kind of what kind of potatoes does McDonald's use for their fries?

The Minimum Wage: What It Was For, What It Buys Now, and Whether a Fast-Food Job Should Pay a Living

Lewis Hine, Addie Card, 12 years. Spinner in North Pownal Cotton Mill, Vt., February 1910, for the National Child Labor Committee. Library of Congress, nclc.05282. Public domain;…

The Night It Ran Out of Everything, at Five Guys

Six o'clock on a Friday evening, National Cheeseburger Day, and the Five Guys on SE Mill Plain Boulevard in Vancouver, Washington had already run out of buns. And lettuce. And…

The Correct Way to Eat Pho, at Pho Hung

Lunch was a bowl of beef pho at Pho Hung, on SE 82nd Avenue in Portland, Oregon — the kind of restaurant most people drive past a hundred times before they ever walk in. Green…

The Cheapest Tacos on the Planet (Possibly Not Beef)

Decent fast food. That's the whole review, really, before I dress it up with anything else — Jack in the Box, the location on NE 117th in Vancouver, Washington, on a Friday night…

Dress It Yourself, at Philly Bilmos

Dinner tonight was the Italian sub at Philly Bilmos, a cheesesteak shop in Vancouver, Washington — and the sandwich I'd point someone to isn't the one in the name. This is, I…

A Lamb and Beef Gyro, and a Request for Sunglasses

Dinner tonight was the Lamb and Beef Mix Gyro at Anoush Deli & International Market, on NE Fourth Plain Boulevard in Vancouver, Washington, ordered at the counter under a backlit…

O-M-Cheese, and a Water Hole That Isn't Anymore

The Applebee's on SE 2nd Circle in Vancouver, Washington, has a new line over the door this year — Welcome Back! — and a window etched with the word Neighborhood, the same rebrand…

Fully Involved, at Firehouse Subs

Dinner last night was a New York Steamer at Firehouse Subs in Vancouver, Washington, which is the kind of sentence that requires no further explanation to anyone who already…

The Trick with the Peppers, at In-N-Out

Quarter to five on a Saturday afternoon, and the new In-N-Out on SE 3rd Way, in Vancouver, Washington, was three months old and still finding its rhythm — a line stacked two deep…