It’s a new year—a new decade!—at Starbucks, and in order to get with the times, the coffee chain is not only rolling…
Aimee Levitt
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Former associate editor of The Takeout. Chicagoan. Owned by dog.
I once worked in an office with a cereal bar and a refrigerator full of milk and fruit. There was a candy room (more…
A very Midwest-specific tweet began making the rounds over the weekend, a twist on a very NYC-specific tweet about th…
There are cupcake ATMs, salad ATMs, and even meat ATMs, so why not a pizza ATM? And why not install it in a college…
One day, not very long ago (Sunday), three little piggies ran away from home. (Actually, they weren’t really that…
Who among us has never lost control and consumed, say, an entire carton of ice cream or an entire bag of M&Ms even…
Back in 2011, Linh Lee hired Regan Louchart, a contractor, to renovate her cell phone store in Lansing, Michigan,…
In case you missed it, musician/rock star Gene Simmons, on the very first day of the new year, sent Twitter into an…
Dear Prudence, Slate’s advice columnist, fielded an unusual query the other day from a person whose grocery store…
It’s a new year, and you know what that means: food mavens are very excited to pretend they have magical,…
The Charleston Gazette-Mail of West Virginia paid a visit to the Mountaineer Food Bank in Gassaway, a town in the…
It arrived. We saw that it was good. It picked a Twitter fight with its rivals. There was a shortage. People began…
Luckin Coffee was founded in Beijing in October 2017 with the express goal of surpassing Starbucks in…
One afternoon in Lawrence, Kansas, I came across a coffeehouse named Aimee’s. I have never seen anything else in the…
The 2009 Folgers commercial called “Coming Home” aired for just three holiday seasons, but it has lingered in our…
To watch and love Queer Eye is to have firm opinions about the five experts, and this is mine: Antoni is the worst.…
Every McDonald’s in Peru has shut down for two days in mourning of two teenage employees who were killed last…
We’re heading into some of the busiest travel days of the year, when many of us will have to endure interminable…
Welcome, dear readers, to The Takeout Draft, our recurring feature that combines our love of food, fantasy sports,…
Christmas Day is a holiday on which many Jewish Americans enjoy a tradition of going to the movies and eating…