Despite truly staggering flour prices and a swelling number of fast-casual sandwich-centered concepts opening in the U.S., it appears there’s room for more. Last week’s opening of Bountiful Bread (in Westport Village) and the future opening of Calistoga Bakery Café (first in Lexington and later in Louisville) signal well-heeled investors’ belief that companies like Panera [...]

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Oh yes he did, and in more ways than one.
Countless foreheads surely were slapped at Papa John’s headquarters when Fox-41’s report on founder John Schnatter ran yesterday and today. Why? Because Schnatter, also the chain’s board chairman, declared he uses no technology in his office such as computers or the Internet.
Said he’s never even been [...]

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Now baking at Bountiful Bread: Westport Village’s newest client is Bountiful Bread, a bakery and sandwich café that, looking at its Web site, appears to be a neat place. This is the second store for the Albany, N.Y.-based company whose sandwich and salad menu is quite broad. BB serves breakfast as well. It’s located at [...]

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Other than the most-aged Baby Boomers, no one really likes, cares about or remembers real fruit cake. My mother swears good fruit cake really is good, but merely hard to find. Even though my mom’s reliable palate made her a fine southern cook, convincing me fruit cake ever was good or could be never worked. 
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