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Summer is here again, and Carlo's Cucina in Sandy Hook is hosting a Challenge Burger, this time at The Viking. There's an 11-pound bun (made with Arborg Bakery fries and cheese), burgers (17 of them!), and a ton of toppings, including bacon, cheese, lettuce, tomato, and Cajun or regular mayo. The burger also comes with a full order of onion rings. This weekend, the prizes start at $250 and are awarded to anyone who finishes it in 17 minutes, but owner Carlo Guzzi wants families and groups of friends to come along and enjoy the burger together, cutting it into pieces like a cake. Also new this year, Carlo and his wife Marni will donate every Viking burger eaten to Evergreen Basic Needs, a food bank in Gimli. Challenge burgers are fun, but too many people don't have enough to eat. Well done to both of you! Carlo didn't want to say much, but he did say that he's been working on his La Burger Week entry all winter. We'll see if what he has planned in September is enough to retain the Canadian title he won last year at The Magnifico.
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3 Rules of Celebrity Chefs
Gordon Ramsay has released a short but interesting list: his three golden rules when dining at a restaurant are:
1. Beware of restaurants that make questionable boasts about the quality of their food. Any restaurant that throws around buzzwords like famous or best in the country without any evidence to back it up should raise alarm bells. After all, who said those things? Who named them?
2. Too many specials: Ramsay said the specials tend to disappear over the course of the night, and having 10 specials isn't really specials.
3. When ordering wine, ask for an end-of-the-bottle list, which consists of bottles with blemished labels or from vintages that didn't sell well. This is a good way to get the best bottles at a bargain price.
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Menu of the Future
Researchers at the University of York used artificial intelligence to predict tomorrow's popular menu items. They asked Midjourney to create what dinner would look like as we transition to a more sustainable diet. The menu for 2054 includes lab-grown steak, cricket salad, and spaghetti and meatballs made with aquatic plants. Experts say future recipes will be high in protein and have a low carbon footprint.
Keto boosts brain power
A new study from the University of Chile suggests that the keto diet may benefit cognitive function in older adults. Researchers fed older mice a normal diet and a high-fat diet. After four months, the mice that alternated between a normal diet and a high-fat diet performed better than those that only fed a normal diet. The keto diet has also been linked to changes in the brain, including improved neural connections and plasticity.
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Highly paid manager
California's new law requires fast-food workers to earn a minimum wage of $20 an hour, but it also includes another little-known rule: Fast-food managers must be paid a minimum salary of $83,200 a year. One manager at a Raising Cane's restaurant near Los Angeles makes $174,000, including bonuses. Chipotle Mexican Grill and Shake Shack also pay their top managers six-figure salaries.
The restaurant employee lied.
A former restaurant employee confessed that he was trained to lie about the freshness of takeout meals. TikTok user Dom, who also goes by the handle @matchafanboy, admitted in a recent video that the food ordered wasn't fresh, but that the manager had trained employees to imply that the food was fresh when customers arrived by saying, “Perfect timing!” The manager also replaced the clear takeout lids with opaque ones so customers wouldn't see that their food had obviously been left outside.
— Hal is a longtime columnist and host of “Connecting Winnipeg,” which airs weekdays from 10 a.m. to noon on 680 CJOB. Email him at Hal@HalAnderson.ca.
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