So normally when my roomie yells “Check this sh*t out on YouTube!!!” I ignore him, but when he told me Denver had a goose-scaring robot to rid its parks of geese, I had to watch. And I saw the “GoosInator,” a highway cone-orange creation that looks like something sewn on…
Anybody suing a fast-food chain is news, especially if the lawsuit is petty, outlandish or an obvious attempt at a cash-grab by people who clearly have some time on their hands. The recent lawsuit filed by two New Jersey males against Subway, based on the assertion that the $5 footlong…
In case you haven’t heard the collective war cries rising up from the citizens of Boulder, Colorado, they are about to get their first Walmart — one of the new “neighborhood market” concepts. Walmart pisses off liberals everywhere, and it’s not the big-box chain with the best ethics record –…
Garbanzo Mediterranean Grill, the homegrown healthy Mediterranean chain, will celebrate its fifth birthday by offering Colorado customers five days of deep discounts — beginning on Saturday, January 26 — on some of its popular items, including an entire day of free falafel balls. And Garbanzo is also treating itself to…
Riding RTD buses, on certain routes, is an awful lot like using my old roommate’s microwave oven: It’s steamy, filled with food splatter and spittle, smells like armpits, and you just never know what fresh hell you are going to find in there. But the Regional Transportation District’s board of…
You know when you sincerely promise yourself you’ll try something different the next time you eat at a restaurant, but then don’t because you just love that one thing so much? That’s me with the Truffle Mushroom Swiss burger at Smashburger. Every single time I’ve eaten at a Smashburger, I’ve…
Technomic Inc. has released its inaugural list of Chain Restaurant Consumers’ Choice Award honorees, winners, chosen from 115 fast-food, fast-casual and full-service restaurants, with the winners selected by consumers. So now for the two pressing questions: What, exactly, is Technomic, and which restaurants got A+ grades? See also: – Colorado…
MGM studio exec Louis B. Mayer started the Academy Awards in 1929 as a way to bolster the image of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences — and assist in mediating labor disputes. From that modest beginning, the awards ceremony has grown into one of the world’s biggest…
Customers are very fortunate to have fast-food chains that offer adequate — if not 100 percent nutritious or gourmet — breakfast menus for those days when flipping pancakes or cracking eggs at home isn’t time-efficient. And fast-food patrons are also fortunate that not every chain offers breakfast items, since more…
Tom Ryan, Smashburger’s founder and chief concept officer, yesterday hosted the official unveiling of the new, redesigned Smashburger location at 6305 East Hampden Avenue, walking guests through an eight-course menu of Smashburger items as well as a tour of the store. It was a blast, and I discovered that Smashburger’s…
Storytime at the library won’t be for kids tonight when Anythink Library Wright Farms, a branch of the Rangeview Library District, and the Beyond the Bedroom sex-education group host “Orgasm…I want it…Where do I find it?…How do I get it?” Shhhhh, can you keep the noise down, please? Daka Dan,…
I love that we live in a country that’s sexually open enough — not as much as some European countries, but that’s another list for another time — to allow for public education on how to have and give orgasms. Denverites, you have an upcoming class available at Anythink Library…
The Broncos are going to win Super Bowl XLVII — say that with me, and keep repeating it like a mantra because if you say anything else, out loud, in front of other people here in Colorado, somebody will punch you in the stomach really, really hard. And speaking of…
The locally headquartered Red Robin burger chain has produced some weird stuff lately, like the noticeably un-hot Cry Baby and Fiery Ghost burgers, Freestyle Coke machines that will eventually destroy humanity as we know it, and those blecky beer milkshakes. But the chief execs at Red Robin appear to be…
It’s a tricky time for plan-ahead, chain-dining daters. They have six weeks to figure out where to make Valentine’s Day reservations, and despite the fact that dining out on February 14 is way more hassle than it’s worth (big waits even with reservations, crowded dining rooms, flustered staff, long ticket…
It’s a new year, and so a clean plate for all food nerds is in order. We can forget the memories of past food flubs and start this year fresher than a bowl of baby spinach (triple washed, of course.) I’ve been studying other food forecasts for 2013 — including…
The past year was a titillating one for fast-food trends. Yes, 2012 brought us healthy on-the-go, as well as sticky, cheese-covered drive-thru fodder that will linger in our colons well into 2013. We’ve seen the fast-food versions of the good, the bad and the ugly — good things like healthier…
Now that most of the dust has settled from November’s election, President Barack Obama is finally dropping the presidential hammer — “I got yer fiscal cliff right ‘ere, mother*ckers!” — and Mitt Romney has retired from politics into the private sector, working as a busboy at the Salt Lake City…
The soon-to-be-over year of 2012 has given us savory soups, awesome appetizers, munchable main dishes and even a few scintillating smoothies. But these taste-tempting morsels and sips were sadly sullied by the emergence of some unimaginably horrific eats that Satan himself would not take a poke at with his big,…
Some of the best holiday memories are made in the kitchen. The wafting aroma of ham and reheated Hawaiian rolls, the rush to make sure the cream of mushroom soup moistens that green bean casserole, the agonized sighs after reading the calorie count on the Sara Lee pie box. And,…
This last year has brought us some terrible chain restaurant trends, including serving up sodium-soaked “healthy” meals; shrinking dessert sizes and charging the same prices; peddling fancy cocktails with more ingredients than a hair-relaxing solution; and restaurants labeling everything “natural.” But despite the obvious failures, 2012 also produced five trends…
This year has been an interesting and generally productive one for food trends, with global tastes well-established, house-made fruit and vegetable pickles all the rage, gourmet burgers and craft brews holding steady, and Peruvian and Thai fusion cuisine everywhere. But with the good comes the bad, and there are definitely…
