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Bar and nightlife consultant Jon Taffer talks about helping businesses be profitable and hosting a new reality show on Spike TV. In-your-face business consultant Jon Taffer has spent 20 years turning around struggling food, beverage, and nightlife companies

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Toyota plans to teach its well-honed assembly line techniques to community organizations like the St.

Pepper your table with these dispensers.

Matthew Corrin's aha moment came one afternoon six years ago in a Midtown Manhattan deli.

What do hundreds of dollars worth of parking tickets, people cued up on Southern California streets, and Vietnamese Banh Mi sandwiches all have in common?

The market was created to avoid the red tape that keeps many small-time food operations from getting off the ground.

In the most significant change to U.S. cigarette packs in 25 years, the Food and Drug Administration released nine new warning labels that depict in graphic detail the negative health effects of tobacco use.

To stop honeybees--some of the planet's most important food pollinators--from continuing to disappear at an alarming rate, London has launched a tongue-in-cheek campaign to raise awareness about the problem. It's hard to say exactly why honeybees the world over are disappearing. Evidence points to viruses , fungi, cell phone use , pesticides, and climate change as potential causes (or parts of a larger cause).

The Fast Company reader's essential rundown of who's breaking into and shaking up your tech space--updated all day. Google's Reputation-Management Tool New Dashboard tools streamline alerts about personal information that crops up on the web--wanted or not. This will be especially valuable to businesses wary of negative comments or outright lies.

The House voted Wednesday to prohibit the Food and Drug Administration from approving genetically modified salmon for human consumption.

When food prices rose steeply in 2007 and climaxed in the winter of 2008, politicians and the press decried the impact on the billion or so people who were already going hungry. Excellent growing weather and good harvests provided temporary relief, but prices have once again soared to record heights

Researchers at the University of California and the Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology in Korea have been looking at the technology for two years now, and have come up with a proof-of-concept design that really could result in smell-o-vision, TV that pumps out odors to heighten to your immersive-TV experience. Nasal nostalgia is made possible by your brain's hippocampus --where long-term memories get sorted out--and it seems it's a very primal instinct, which may explain its power. You know what I mean: The way an unexpected whiff of scent will spark off memories of a long-forgotten partner

Dear EarthTalk : I thought “farm raised” was the way to go when buying fish, to avoid mercury contamination. But are there other concerns about farm-raised that make some fish a poor choice for good health? What are the safest fish to buy and which should be avoided

The Power Dinner: This is where we want to go to pop some corks, get pampered, and celebrate deals, promotions, partnerships in style, without stuffiness. And if you happen to spot a luminary or two a few tables away, even better. These restaurants are our top picks.