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Food Halls Are the New Meal Ticket for Bricks-and-Mortar Restaurants Dining spots are using the food hall model to curb rent costs and expand their footprints

When the team behind the Italian restaurant dell’anima, a mainstay in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village neighborhood for more than a decade, faced a sizable rent increase last year, they decided it was no longer feasible to… Food Halls Are the New Meal Ticket for Bricks-and-Mortar Restaurants Dining spots are using the food hall model to curb rent costs and expand their footprints

The story of how Kit Kats, once a British chocolate export, became a booming business from Hokkaido to Tokyo — and changed expectations about what a candy bar could be.

The seven-story Don Quijote megastore in the Shibuya district of Tokyo is open 24 hours a day, but it’s hard to say when it’s rush hour, because there’s always a rush. A labyrinth of aisles… The story of how Kit Kats, once a British chocolate export, became a booming business from Hokkaido to Tokyo — and changed expectations about what a candy bar could be.