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      "title": "MRM Research Roundup: Road Trips, Cheese Obsessed, and Burger Bucks",
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      "summary": "This edition of Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Research Roundup features how summer drinking is being redefined, burger pricing, American’s love affair with cheese, and fast-food location changes. Rethinking Dining Rising energy costs and forcing Americans to rethi",
      "source": "Modern Restaurant Mgmt",
      "published": "Mon, 01 Jun 2026 16:09:13 +0000",
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      "title": "North America’s 50 Best Restaurants in 2026: The Full List",
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      "summary": "The 2026 edition of the North America’s 50 Best Restaurants list was announced live tonight at an awards ceremony in New Orleans, where the best chefs from across the U.S., Canada, and the Caribbean gathered to compete and celebrate. This year, Smyth in Chicago was named the No. ",
      "source": "Eater",
      "published": "2026-05-28T23:00:00-04:00",
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      "title": "From Star Wars to Stranger Things — IP Experience Is Now a Powerful Ingredient On The QSR Menu",
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      "summary": "The era of celebrity meal and seasonal menus as LTOs is giving way to something far more immersive — full IP experiences where the food, the packaging, the app, the collectible, and sometimes the movie itself are all one seamless brand moment. Consumers no longer see food as only",
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      "title": "I Tried Erewhon’s New $15,000-a-Year VIP Membership for a Month",
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      "summary": "When I have friends visiting Los Angeles and I ask where they’d like to eat, of all the incredible restaurants that the city has to offer — old Hollywood steakhouses, elite sushi counters, taco trucks, bustling Korean barbecue spots — there’s one place that always comes up these ",
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      "title": "Crypto meets Wall Street: MEXC unveils 'RealStocks' with 0-fee U.S. equity trading and real dividends",
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      "summary": "MEXC, a leading 0-fee cross-asset trading platform, today announced the official launch of 'RealStocks.'",
      "source": "Cointelegraph",
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      "title": "Where to Eat in Chicago, From Touchdown to Takeoff",
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      "summary": "On June 15, the culinary world will descend on Chicago for the James Beard Awards. For the uninitiated, this esteemed ceremony, hosted by the James Beard Foundation, recognizes the country’s best chefs, restaurateurs, authors, and journalists — the people dedicated to cooking, sh",
      "source": "Eater",
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      "title": "Dogecoin gains Paxos support in push for broader institutional adoption",
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      "summary": "The integration gives fintech and institutional platforms a new pathway to evaluate DOGE amid signs of slowing crypto adoption.",
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    {
      "title": "How a Sliding-Scale, Worker-Owned Sandwich Shop Makes It Work",
      "url": "https://www.eater.com/pre-shift/962846/sea-soil-coop-sandwiches-sliding-scale-pre-shift",
      "summary": "This excerpt was originally published in Pre Shift, our newsletter for the hospitality industry. Subscribe for more first-person accounts, advice, and interviews. Everyone needs a convenient, accessible place to socialize. But maintaining a cafe, bar, restaurant, or hybrid space ",
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      "published": "2026-05-20T10:00:00-04:00",
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      "title": "Japan’s ruling party pushes crypto ETFs, yen-denominated stablecoins",
      "url": "https://cointelegraph.com/news/japans-ruling-party-crypto-etfs-yen-denominated-stablecoins?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound",
      "summary": "The Parliamentary Association for the Promotion of Blockchain delivered recommendations to Japan’s finance minister on crypto and blockchain.",
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      "title": "A New Ode to British Pubs Takes NYC By Storm",
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      "summary": "A decade after opening beloved Soho bistro King, chef and owner Jess Shadbolt and co-owner Annie Shi just opened a classic British pub right next door. Dean’s serves standout British dishes like stargazy pie, a pot pie with a whole fish head gazing up from crust, as well as class",
      "source": "Eater",
      "published": "2026-05-18T13:43:05-04:00",
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    {
      "title": "Crypto funds suffer second-largest outflows of 2026 while XRP and HYPE attract inflows",
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      "summary": "Investors pulled $1.67 billion from digital asset investment products last week, with bitcoin funds posting their largest weekly outflow of the year, according to a recent report from CoinShares.",
      "source": "CoinDesk",
      "published": "Mon, 01 Jun 2026 17:59:06 +0000",
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    {
      "title": "The 38 Best London Restaurants, According to Eater’s Local Dining Expert",
      "url": "https://www.eater.com/maps/best-london-restaurants-eater-38",
      "summary": "The story of the London food scene is one that includes dim sum, Sunday roasts, curries, pizza, sinasir, rarebits, banh mi, udon, pepper pot, sweetbread suya, and natural wine. Across cuisines, neighborhoods, and price points, all these dishes and drinks place London among the ve",
      "source": "Eater",
      "published": "2026-05-18T09:00:00-04:00",
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      "title": "Strategy sparks panic with bitcoin sale, but analysts say it was 'immaterial'",
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      "summary": "The move suggests a greater willingness on the part of Michael Saylor and Strategy to use BTC holdings to support the capital structure, said one analyst, while others disagreed.",
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      "title": "How I Got My Job Running Cafes Out of Climbing Gyms",
      "url": "https://www.eater.com/pre-shift/961011/georgies-vital-joeleen-ng-cafe-pre-shift",
      "summary": "This excerpt was originally published in Pre Shift, our newsletter for the hospitality industry. Subscribe for more first-person accounts, advice, and interviews. Everyone needs a convenient, accessible place to socialize. But maintaining a cafe, bar, restaurant, or hybrid space ",
      "source": "Eater",
      "published": "2026-05-13T10:00:00-04:00",
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      "title": "Bitmine acquires 26,497 ETH as it targets a slower approach to 5% of Ethereum’s total supply",
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      "summary": "Bitmine Chairman Tom Lee said the company would reach its 5% acquisition target of Ethereum's total supply \"sometime in 2026.\"",
      "source": "The Block",
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    {
      "title": "Restaurants Are in Their Blue Period",
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      "summary": "Amid a stretch of red-brick buildings, the Brooklyn restaurant Margot, right at the corner on a busy intersection, stands out. It’s blue: very blue, its two-story exterior painted the color of a pair of Prue Leith’s glasses, a chore coat worn by a server at a trendy natural wine ",
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      "title": "Debate on CLARITY Act continues this week as US Senate returns",
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      "summary": "Many Democratic lawmakers have said that they will not support any version of a crypto market structure bill without provisions on ethics to address potential conflicts of interest by elected officials.",
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      "title": "New York’s Buzziest New Restaurant Is a Pub",
      "url": "https://www.eater.com/pre-shift/961028/deans-pub-new-york-pre-shift",
      "summary": "This excerpt was originally published in Pre Shift, our newsletter for the hospitality industry. Subscribe for more first-person accounts, advice, and interviews. Now Open is a yearlong series celebrating some of 2026’s most exciting new restaurants. Throughout the year, we’ll ch",
      "source": "Eater",
      "published": "2026-05-11T10:00:00-04:00",
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