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☆ McDonald’s Growing Appetite for Fashion
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-15 | by ( Kyle Macneill | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Jeremy Scott had just started interviewing for the job of creative director at Moschino when he had an epiphany of sorts while driving through Los Angeles. “I saw the iconic McDonald’s logo,” Mr. Scott said, “and it just hit me: Moschino, McDonald’s.”“I’ve always been very much about pop culture,” he added. He got the job at Moschino not long after, and he then began to work with its graphics team to contort the fast-food chain’s golden arches into the shape of a heart, a signature motif of the Italian fashion brand.

Persons: Jeremy Scott, “, Mr, Scott, “ I’ve Locations: Los Angeles, Moschino

☆ McDonald's and Crocs are releasing a line of $75 shoes inspired by Grimace and the Hamburglar
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-13 | by ( Nicolas Vega | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

The home of the McNugget this week is rolling out a line of custom-designed clogs in collaboration with Crocs. The fast food-inspired lineup will feature three classic Crocs and one Crocs sandal based on McDonald's mascots Grimace, Hamburglar and Birdie, as well as the chain's classic red and yellow color scheme. The shoes will be released on November 14, retailing for between $70 and $75. Matching socks for each pair of shoes will retail for $20. Customers will be able to buy them at Crocs retail locations and wholesale partners.

Persons: McDonald's, Grimace, Hamburglar Organizations: Crocs, Mac

☆ At Dubai Design Week, an architect created a space for humans and pigeons to share
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-10 | by ( Manav Tanneeru | Arya Jyothi | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

Among them, Dubai-based Syrian Ahmad Alkattan has created a cocoon-style intimate outdoor social space where designers can “hatch” their ideas. Alkattan’s design is part of the annual Dubai Design Week and won first place in its Urban Commissions competition, which invites designers and architects to develop innovative outdoor furniture. This year, more than 30 designs for installations submitted for DDW have been built in the city’s Design District. Dubai Design WeekAhead of the upcoming COP28 climate conference in Dubai, the theme for this year’s design week emphasizes sustainable practices and materials. “So [the competition] is a very relevant project not just for what is staged in Dubai Design Week, but where we can see this in the future.”Designest is Alkattan’s third attempt at winning the Urban Commissions category.

Persons: Ahmad Alkattan, “ Designest, Alkattan, Designest, “, I’ve, Mette Degn, Christensen, DDW, it’s, ”, Abdalla, TEE VEE, Degn Organizations: CNN, Design, Dubai Design, DDW, Mitsubishi, Tea Locations: Dubai, Dubai —, Venice, Arabi, UAE

☆ I compared breakfast at Taco Bell and McDonald's. The Golden Arches should be worried.
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-07 | by ( Nancy Luna | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Taco Bell is stepping up its breakfast game to compete with McDonald's. But lately, fast-food chains such as Wendy's and Taco Bell have demonstrated that they want to steal breakfast customers from McDonald's. So I decided to put the breakfast menus of McDonald's and Taco Bell to the test. McDonald's and Taco Bell have more than a dozen breakfast items on their menus. Taco Bell leans into burritos and breakfast wraps, while the McDonald's menu is heavy on breakfast sandwiches.

Persons: Taco Bell, —, McDonald's, Wendy's, Mark King, King, I'm, Keith Organizations: Taco Bell's, Service, Egg, Taco Locations: McDonald's

☆ A Taylor Swift Airbnb is a bachelorette dream home where megafans can bask in her "Eras" for up to $1,400 a night
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-01 | by ( Dan Latu | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

An Arizona Airbnb with rooms themed around Taylor Swift's different "Eras" is welcoming guests soon. AdvertisementAdvertisementTwo months ago, interior designer Kelly Straka had never listened to Taylor Swift's music. Straka said her favorite one has been for the "Reputation" room, which leans heavily on newspaper imagery, like the album's front cover. The "Reputation" room. Courtesy of Kelly StrakaStraka's favorite detail has been the flow between the different rooms and eras.

Persons: Taylor, —, Kelly Straka, It's, Straka, Kelly Straka Straka, Taylor Swift, she's, Swift Organizations: Service, Facebook, Home Locations: Arizona, Scottsdale , Arizona, Scottsdale

☆ The Big Cheese (Tour)
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-31 | by ( Alexander Lobrano | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

On a sunny October afternoon in the London neighborhood of Bermondsey, a cool breeze surprised me with the winy smell of apples. It brought on a sudden sharp craving for a nice chunk of Cheddar, the fruit and the cheese together being a favorite after-school snack when I was growing up in Connecticut. This was an appropriate prompt, too, since I was on my way to a very privileged lesson in British farmhouse cheeses at the beginning of an eight-day, cheese-themed trip to London and Somerset run by the specialty tour company Cheese Journeys. My destination was the empyrean address for anyone who really loves best-quality British cheeses: the aging cellars of the Neal’s Yard Dairy. This trip was also a sort of homage to my paternal grandmother, since she’d been the one who’d first pricked my curiosity about cheese with her love of crumbly black-waxed extra-sharp New York cheddar.

Persons: I’d, she’d Organizations: Somerset Locations: London, Bermondsey, Connecticut, York cheddar, Cheddar, Somerset

☆ China’s newest museum is straight out of science fiction
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-30 | by ( Rebecca Cairns | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

It looks like something straight out of science fiction. Which it is, in a way: it’s the brand new Chengdu Science Fiction Museum in the capital of Sichuan province in Southwest China. The museum was commissioned in 2022 to host this year’s 81st annual World Science Fiction Convention, nicknamed Worldcon. The Science Fiction Museum is part of a larger “Future City” development in the Pidu district, outside of the city. Known as Chengdu Future Science and Technology City, the 4.6-square-kilometer (1.8-square-mile) site will house multiple new universities, laboratories and offices.

Persons: ”, Paulo Flores, Flores, Sydney Opera House —, Zaha Hadid, Satoshi Ohashi, Ohashi, ” Ohashi, Dave McCarty, ” McCarty Organizations: CNN, Chengdu Science Fiction Museum, Zaha, Architects, Science, Sydney Opera House, Fiction, Chengdu Future Science, Technology City Locations: Sichuan, Southwest China, London, City, Chengdu, Pidu, China, Asia, ”

☆ Weight-loss drug worries add to US restaurants' weak traffic woes
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-26 | by ( Deborah Mary Sophia | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

Investors' knee-jerk reaction to those comments sent the under-pressure S&P 500 restaurants index (.SPLRCREST) down 1.3% at the time. THE FUNDAMENTALS** On Thursday, Chipotle is expected to report a 4.5% increase in Q3 same-store sales, according to LSEG data, slower both on a year-over-year and a sequential basis. Profit likely rose about 18%. WALL STREET SENTIMENT** The S&P 500 restaurant sub-index (.SPLRCREST) has risen just 0.4% year-to-date, lagging a more than 10% jump in the benchmark S&P 500 (.SPX). Growth in top restaurant stocks has broadly lagged the benchmark S&P 500 indexReporting by Deborah Sophia in Bengaluru; Editing by Savio D'SouzaOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Brendan McDermid, Peter Saleh, Taco Bell, Wells, Chipotle, Deborah Sophia, Savio D'Souza Organizations: REUTERS, KFC, Yum Brands, Walmart, Conagra, Taco, WALL, Thomson Locations: New York, McDonald's, Wells Fargo, Bengaluru

☆ In Sanliurfa, the Silk Road Meets the Stone Age
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-17 | by ( Barry Yourgrau | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The next morning we took a winding route through Eyyubiye toward one of Urfa’s great religious jewels, the Pool of Abraham. On the way Anya beelined to a carsi firin, a communal oven where customers waited by the window with pans of Urfa’s glossy peppers and eggplants to be char-roasted and handed back with chewy flatbread straight from the wood-fired stone oven. Dr. Bedlek reprised the details as we strolled around the large, rectangular stone pool where pilgrims and tourists were feeding the plump sacred fish. All about, couples posed in gaudy rented Ottoman outfits — and despite my protests, Anya pressured me into dressing up likewise. Just beyond lies the Dergah complex of a park, a rose garden and more mosques alongside a venerated small cave.

Persons: Abraham, Anya beelined, chewy, Bedlek, Abraham — Balikli, Nimrod, —, Anya Locations: Eyyubiye, Turkish, Damlacik

Oct 13 (Reuters) - President Joe Biden will announce in Philadelphia on Friday the recipients of $7 billion in federal grants for the development of regional hydrogen hubs, advancing a key part of his administration's broader plan to decarbonize the U.S. economy. "The regional hydrogen hubs will kickstart a national network of clean hydrogen production, consumers and the connected infrastructure necessary, while supporting the production, storage and delivery and end use of clean hydrogen,” a senior administration official said. The hubs selected will serve the mid-Atlantic, Appalachian, Midwest, Minnesota and Plains states, the Gulf Coast, Pacific Northwest and California. The grants are expected to leverage over $40 billion in private investment, generate tens of thousands of jobs and create a national hydrogen economy. Most of the selected hubs include the use of natural gas to power hydrogen production, which administration officials said would need to install carbon capture technology to qualify.

Persons: Joe Biden, ”, Biden, Chris Hannan, Rachel Fakhry, Valerie Volcovici, Diane Craft Organizations: Industry, Administration, of, Treasury Department, Natural Resources Defense, Thomson Locations: Philadelphia, U.S, Pennsylvania, California, Appalachian, Midwest , Minnesota, Plains, Gulf Coast, Pacific Northwest, Texas, of California

☆ Suleika Jaouad and Jon Batiste open the doors to their Brooklyn townhouse
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-04 | by ( Christy Choi | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

Newly home to best-selling author, activist and motivational speaker Suleika Jaouad and Grammy-winning musician, singer-songwriter and TV personality Jon Batiste, the 1890s Italianate townhouse in Brooklyn, New York is a potent space for them to live and create. Jon Batiste pictured in the studio lounge of the Brooklyn home he shares with author Suleika Jaouad. “The vision for the house was deeply tied to who Jon and I are as humans — to our creativity and our lineage,” Jaouad wrote. Jaouad recalled Batiste exaggeratedly exclaiming, in reference to a lamp: “Now this light is healing!”“It cracked us up, and we put it on repeat,” she wrote. Fried chicken sandwiches and champagne were served to the small group of guests, while Batiste serenaded Jaouad on a grand piano he rented for the night.

Persons: CNN —, Suleika Jaouad, Jon Batiste, Jaouad, “, ”, Frank Frances, Hallie Goodman, Jon, ” Jaouad, Jaouad’s, Mokhtar Lahmar, Designway, Batiste exaggeratedly, Batiste, Goodman, — Organizations: CNN, Architectural, Brooklyn, New, Facebook Locations: Brooklyn , New York, —, “, Tunisia, New Orleans, Nabeul, French, Quittner

☆ The 500-year-old hamam bringing Istanbul’s past to life
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-28 | by ( Alice Barnes-Brown | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

CNN —Closed to the public for more than a decade, the stunning Zeyrek Çinili Hamam has just reopened its wooden doors to the world. A team of archaeologists and historians at the hamam helped those institutions to identify exactly where their Iznik tiles came from. Ottoman know-how and seamless minimalism come together inside the Çinili Hamam to create the ultimate zone-out space. The glass stars on the domed ceilings (a signature of Ottoman hamam design) allow just enough natural light to shimmer in, but not so much that it dazzles. Yazgan says the Zeyrek Çinili Hamam will closely replicate time-honored Ottoman bathtime traditions.

Persons: Hamam, Mimar Sinan, Suleiman the, Çinili, ”, Koza Yazgan, “, Sinan, London’s, Yazgan, Brüeckner –, Hammam, Murat Germen, Murat, Germen Murat Germen, puffy, ‘, Istanbul’s, It’s Organizations: CNN, hamam, Istanbul Biennial, Marmara Group, Egyptian Museum, UNESCO, Hagia Locations: Istanbul’s Zeyrek, Fatih, Zeyrek, Cairo, Abu Dhabi, Mimar, Turkey, Istanbul, Ayasofya, Hagia Sofia, Ottoman, hamams, Aivita, Marmara, Valens, –

Meanwhile, two indoor farming companies that attracted strong startup money — New Jersey's AeroFarms and Kentucky's AppHarvest — filed for bankruptcy reorganization. Advocates say growing indoors uses less water and land and allows food to be grown closer to consumers, saving on transport. Tom Kimmerer, a plant physiologist who taught at the University of Kentucky, has tracked indoor farming alongside his research into the growth of plants both outdoors and inside. He said some companies may be struggling to scale up, with problems that come from launching in spaces that aren't necessarily built specifically for indoor farming. Several of the companies say they're on the right track.

Persons: AppHarvest —, Jacob Portillo, Eden Green, that’s, ”, It's, they’re, Tom Kimmerer, “, Kimmerer, Hannah Burrack, you’re, ” Burrack, Evan Lucas, he's, Lucas, Eden, Eddy Badrina, Arama Kukutai, Matt Ryan, Curt Covington, isn't, “ It's, ” Covington, ___ Walling, Joshua A, Bickel, ___, Melina Walling Organizations: Eden Green Technology, Kroger, University of Kentucky, Michigan State University, Northern Michigan University, Eden Green, Walmart, AgAmerica, Associated Press, AP Locations: CLEBURNE, Texas, Dallas, Eden, Cleburne, California, Detroit, Elmwood, Farm, Lexington , Kentucky, Plenty, Chicago, Georgetown , Kentucky, Georgetown, ___

☆ American economic power is potent but unstable
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-08 | by ( Peter Thal Larsen | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +8 min

LONDON, Sept 8 (Reuters Breakingviews) - For the past 15 years, the iPhone has been a totem of U.S. economic power. If the country is cooling on the $2.8 trillion company, it’s a potent indicator of increasingly frosty relations with the United States. Perhaps most significantly, the U.S. government realised it could use the internet to spy on adversaries and the financial system to subdue them. The tendency of capitalism to produce a handful of giant companies, many of them headquartered in the United States, helped successive administrations exert their authority. A complete severing of economic links between China and the United States is hard to imagine.

Persons: Norman Angell, Thomas Friedman, Vladimir Putin, Edward Snowden, Henry Farrell, Abraham Newman, Johns Hopkins SAIS, Putin, Biden, ”, Farrell, Newman, Donald Trump, ” Farrell, Allen Lane, Jeffrey Goldfarb, Aditya Sriwatsav Organizations: Reuters, Apple, World Trade Organization, New York Times, National Security Agency, U.S . Treasury, Johns Hopkins, Georgetown University, WTO, Huawei, BNP, Biden Administration, Intel, U.S ., European, United, Thomson Locations: China, Beijing, United States, France, Russian, U.S, North Korea, Iran, New York, Washington, Sudan, Cuba, Ukraine, America, Russia, Germany, United, Europe

☆ The Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show Returns. But Not as You Knew It.
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-07 | by ( Vanessa Friedman | More About Vanessa Friedman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

“The Victoria’s Secret World Tour,” which will stream on Amazon Prime on Sept. 26, is a putting-their-platform-where-their-mouth-is movie conceived to showcase the work of “a new generation of creatives” (all female, of course) from four major cities — Lagos, Nigeria; London; Bogotá; and Tokyo — the better to convince the world that this really is a new Victoria’s Secret. “To finally say, ‘This is it, this is who we are,’” said Raul Martinez, the brand’s chief creative director. “We haven’t forgotten our past, but we’re also speaking to the present. To take our platform, understand the power of that, but show up with a different narrative.”Which is what, exactly? “Hot” is an association the new Victoria’s Secret would rather stay far away from.

Persons: Hadid, “, ’ ”, Raul Martinez, we’re, Akech, Lila Moss Hack, Honey Dijon, Julia Fox, Adriana Lima, Candice Swanepoel Organizations: Prime Locations: — Lagos, Nigeria, London, Tokyo, Spain, Barcelona

☆ Fact Check-Photos show two different gates that survived separate Japanese disasters
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-06 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

Pictures of two Japanese gates that survived two separate catastrophic events in history are being falsely claimed online to be the same. The caption asks: “What the hell is that arch made of?”However, the pictures were taken in separate locations and show two different arches. Nagasaki is situated in southwest Japan, whereas Otsuchi is more than 1,760 km away via car towards the country’s northwest (shorturl.at/gkDY4). The gates are different and survived two separate Japanese disasters. This article was produced by the Reuters Fact Check team.

Persons: torii, Otsuchi –, Read Organizations: Facebook, Reuters Locations: Nagasaki, Otsuchi, U.S, Japan

☆ A woman and her dog were swept away by flash flooding that suddenly surged through a Utah slot canyon. They were saved after the SOS emergency feature on her iPhone notified rescuers.
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-29 | by ( Kelsey Vlamis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A woman was hiking with her dog in a Utah slot canyon Thursday when she heard flash flooding coming. Rescuers were able to find them after she used the emergency satellite SOS feature on her iPhone. AdvertisementAdvertisementShe then used the emergency satellite SOS feature on her iPhone to send a message for help. However, the woman got a message back to her phone that said, "Emergency Services: Message Send Failure." It's unclear why the woman received a message to her iPhone that said her request for help was not sent.

Persons: Mary Jane Canyon, GCSAR Organizations: Rescuers, Facebook, Apple Locations: Utah

☆ The Bohemian Bungalow in L.A. Was Tiny, but It Had Soul
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-25 | by ( Julie Lasky | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The City of Angels remains a city of teardowns. One house that slipped through the cracks is a 1927 Spanish Colonial-slash-Craftsman in the Fairfax neighborhood, just south of West Hollywood. In the fall of 2020, Siena Deck, currently a production assistant at HBO, won an eight-way bidding war to claim the heartbreaker, paying $1.29 million. Outside, jacaranda trees turn the grounds purple in spring. But what really impressed Ms. Deck, 25, were the decorative and frequently imperfect marks left by the former occupants, who lived there for 17 years.

Organizations: HBO, Melrose, Jewish Locations: Angels, teardowns, Spanish, Fairfax, West Hollywood, Siena

☆ TikTokers aren't McLovin' a 'trash' McDonald's clothing collaboration with skate brand Palace
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-19 | by ( Jyoti Mann | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

McDonald's launched a clothing range in collaboration with British skate brand Palace this week. The McDonald's x Palace pop-up is loading. TikTok user Sneaker Supplier said it's "outrageous" that McDonald's and the skateboarding and clothing company are charging £118 ($150) for a hoodie with its logo. "£118 to put a McDonald's logo and type out Palace is kind of outrageous," Sneaker Supplier said. McDonald's and Palace didn't immediately respond to requests for comment from Insider, made outside normal working hours.

Persons: McDonald's, TikToker Ryan Sullivan, Kayhooz, didn't Organizations: British, Service, McDonald's, Always Air Forces Locations: Wall, Silicon, Downey , California, Downey , CA

☆ Look inside the $44.5 million Tuscan-style mega villa perched 2,000 feet above Malibu
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-16 | by ( Ray Parisi | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

watch nowThe Tuscan-style mega villa that sits high atop Malibu has just been put back on the market with a $44.5 million price tag. Studio 910The French limestone-clad villa's more recent history includes being featured on reality TV and film. Studio 910The primary suite includes vaulted ceilings and two balconies, plus a wraparound terrace. Studio 910The primary suite's third interior balcony overlooks the great room where 35-foot ceilings are clad in walnut wood. Studio 910The kitchen.

Persons: Shawn Elliott, Elliott, Howard Leight, Bob Easton, Leight, Kardashians, Leight's, Howard Leight Jr Organizations: Malibu Rocky, Nest Seekers International, CNBC Locations: Malibu, Santa Monica, Malibu's

☆ 10 McDonald's menu items you can't buy in the US – from Switzerland's 'McRaclette' to Australia's 'Big Brekkie Burger'
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-16 | by ( Nancy Luna | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Karissa's European eating binge at McDonald's restaurants underscores US travelers' excitement when they visit the Golden Arches while traveling abroad. Many food blogs have pointed to these must-try global McDonald's menu items that cater to locals in nearly 27,000 restaurants outside the US. According to the Wall Street Journal, these local menu items make up about 30% of McDonald's food sales. The chain's international menus have such a big following that McDonald's created a rotating global menu in 2018. Still, those items represent a fraction of the palate-pleasing fast food items found at McDonald's restaurants worldwide.

Persons: McDonald's Organizations: Service, Wall Street Locations: Chicago, Wall, Silicon, Italy, India, Australia, Japan, China, Hong Kong, Switzerland

☆ San’in: Japan’s least-populated region is home to some of its finest treasures
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-10 | by ( Claire Hannum | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Matsue, Japan CNN —San’in isn’t the Japan most travelers picture on their first visit to the country. Japan’s famous high-speed rail system does not pass through San’in, which leaves it off many travelers’ radars altogether. The San’in region consists of Japan’s two least populous prefectures, Shimane and Tottori, which sit between the Sea of Japan and the northern side of the country’s Chukogu mountains. “The Kojiki,” an important eighth-century Shinto text, depicts the San’in region as an annual gathering place for the gods. The region is also the backdrop to Japan’s only desert, a 10-mile cluster of rolling sand beside the Sea of Japan known as the Tottori Dunes.

Persons: Japan CNN — San’in, Mount Daisen, Daisen, Masako Ishida, San’in, Mitoku, it’s, “ It’s, ”, Baye Cooper, ” Cooper, “ Organizations: Japan CNN, UNESCO, Getty, Adachi Museum of Art, Journal, Alamy, Hong Kong Airlines, Air Seoul, San’in Tourism Organization Locations: Matsue, Japan, Honshu, Japan’s, San’in, Shimane, Tottori, Nara, Hyogo, Inasa, amana, Inasa Beach, Uradome, Mount, Chugoku, Kaike Onsen, Tokyo, Kyoto, Yamaguchi prefecture, One, Osaka, Shimane prefecture, Okayama, Hiroshima, Izumo, Hong Kong, Hong, Seoul, Air

☆ Israel’s Supreme Court Prepares to Rule on Its Own Fate
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-10 | by ( Isabel Kershner | More About Isabel Kershner | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

For the first time in Israel’s history, all 15 of its Supreme Court justices will crowd onto the bench on Sept. 12 to hear a case together. The reason: This one is so momentous that it could not only decide the powers of the court itself but also kindle a constitutional crisis. The 15-member court — which meets in a graceful building of beige stone, straight lines and arches on a hill in Jerusalem alongside Parliament — includes secular liberals, religiously observant Jews and conservative residents of Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank. One justice is an Arab Israeli; six are women, including the court’s president. Many Israelis fear that the overhaul will weaken the court as a check on the government, currently the most right-wing and religiously conservative in Israeli history; accelerate a rightward shift of the judiciary that started almost a decade ago; and make it more politicized and less independent.

Persons: — Organizations: West Bank Locations: Jerusalem, Arab

☆ The average Chick-fil-A franchise makes nearly $8.7 million in sales and has one of the lowest fast-food franchise startup fee — here's how to open one
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-03 | by ( Hayley Peterson | Dominick Reuter | Nancy Luna | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Chick-fil-A 's fee for a new restaurant is $10,000 – one of the lowest of any major fast-food brand. In 2022, most locations average nearly $8.7 million in sales per year, up from $8.1 million a year ago, according to the chain's 2023 Franchise Disclosure Document. McDonald's, for example, requires potential franchisees to pay from $1.5 million and $2.5 million in startup costs — including a $45,000 franchise fee, according to the chain's 2023 FDD. Total costs to launch a franchised Chick-fil-A restaurant ranges from $518,385 to $2,803,435, according to the 2023 FDD documents. No transfer or sale of a Chick-fil-A business is allowed, not even family inheritance in the event of death or disability.

Persons: Mark Kalinowski, Chick, McDonald's, Noam Galai, Jay Reed Organizations: Service, Business, Taco Bell Locations: Wall, Silicon, York

☆ Villa Palladio: India meets Italy at this boutique hotel near Jaipur
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-26 | by ( Shalbha Sarda | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

On this road lies the Villa Palladio boutique hotel and resort. Palladio was known for combining the elements of Renaissance and contemporary French practices, creating an altogether unique style known as Anglo-Palladianism. “There is incredible sophistication and presence of history in the aesthetics of both cities, and when conversing, they speak together beautifully.”Colors do more than pop in this Villa Palladio bedroom. Atul Pratap ChauhanWinning over the localsThe building that became Villa Palladio has a brief but fantastic story. Villa Palladio, Abhay Niwas Palace Sumel, Jamdoli Chouraha, Rajasthan 302031, India; +91 141 296 9762

Persons: India CNN —, Villa Palladio, It’s, Botticelli, Barbara Miolini, Marie Anne Oudejans, Miolini, Andrea Palladio, Palladio, ” Miolini, Atul Pratap Chauhan, Abhay Singh, ” Marie Ann Oudejans, Villa, Vibhor Mukul Singh, didn’t, ”, Abhay Niwas, Jamdoli Organizations: India CNN, India CNN — Kanota, Villa Locations: Jaipur, India, Rajasthan, Agra, Italian, Dutch, Switzerland, Venice, Italy, Jamdoli Chouraha

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