Has your Vitamix blender broken down? If you can hear the motor working, but the blades aren’t spinning correctly, chances are that the drive socket just needs to be replaced. In this video, Chris Tavano walks you through the procedure to get your Vitamix back in working shape! To be …
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Lemp Mansion: Haunted Restaurants That Make You Say ‘NOPE’
4. Lemp Mansion | St. Louis, Missouri Want to dine with ghosts? How about get married around them? Or you could decide to spend the night with them; either way, the Lemp Mansion is probably one of the scariest restaurants I’ve had the pleasure of researching, so far. It was …
Read More »Brennan’s Restaurant: Haunted Restaurants That Make You Say ‘NOPE’
2. Brennan’s Restaurant | New Orleans, Louisiana Built in 1795, Brennan’s Restaurant is one of New Orleans most famous restaurants, both for its menu and ghosts. Chef Paul Blange was known for helping to build Brennan’s menu and inventing choices that are well known around the world today, like bananas …
Read More »St. James Hotel: Haunted Restaurants That Make You Say ‘NOPE’
St. James Hotel | Cimarron, New Mexico Out of the 5 restaurants (some within hotels) that I’ve written about so far, this one is likely one of the most famous, simply because of its former, famous guests and the more than 26 murders that occurred in the building. The guest …
Read More »Patsy Clarks: Haunted Restaurants That Make You Say ‘NOPE’
With Halloween around the corner, I thought I’d bring together a list of 5 haunted restaurant stories to get you in the mood for tricks with a little side of treats. And although I love a great horror movie, some of these tales got me a little frightened, even in …
Read More »Catfish Plantation: Haunted Restaurants That Make You Say ‘NOPE’
Catfish Plantation | Waxahachie, Texas Another restaurant with plenty of ghosts to help you enjoy your meal, is the Catfish Plantation. Located in Waxahachie, Texas, the Catfish Plantation has three ghosts named: Elizabeth, Will, and Caroline. Elizabeth was murdered in the house back in the early 1920’s on her wedding …
Read More »Today’s Food Scraps = Tomorrow’s Soup du Jour
Did you know that here in the United States we toss 40 percent of our food—perfectly edible food—into the trash? That’s a 50 percent increase since the 1970s. At our nation’s restaurants, a pound of food is wasted per meal created. Food waste is the single most abundant material in …
Read More »Recipe Measurement Converter & Equivalents
As the holidays start coming closer, we thought it would be a perfect opportunity for our blog team to work together with the graphics team to put together some printable material that would make great gifts for those Chefs in your life. Our very talented Audrey Diaz and I thought …
Read More »Are You Ready to Go Lead Free in 2014?
The Reduction of Lead in Drinking Water Act takes effect Jan. 4, 2014. Are you ready? Under the act, signed by Congress three years ago, “lead free” will be redefined as “not more than a weighted average of 0.25 percent lead when used with respect to the wetted surfaces of …
Read More »When Employees Help Restaurants Go Viral, For All the Wrong Reasons
Vampires. Ghosts. Monsters. Zombies. Cadbury Screme Eggs. These things don’t scare me. (Actually, Cadbury Screme eggs do kind of scare me.) But do you know what truly terrifies me? What sends shivers down my spine? Stories of fast-food workers behaving badly. Like these two chuckleheads at Dominos. Or this guy …
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