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Thank you for your service. These discounts are available year-round to active and retired military and family members, reservists and Gold Star families, and first responders without a military background. Military discounts include restaurants, clothing, travel, entertainment, cars and trucks, technology and even engagement rings. These deals are 365 days a year, not just during
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The parades may be cancelled this year but the spirit of Mardi Gras in New Orleans will be in full swing online Feb 12-15 with music including by the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, virtual tours of famous restaurants including Antoine’s and Dookie Chase, and more.
Ovolo Hotels, which operates hotels, restaurants and bars across Australia and Hong Kong, is going completely vegetarian. It’s not permanent – just for one year, except for the hotel restaurants already permanently vegan or vegetarian. The company is calling it an “initiative”, but that is corporate-speak for a trial run. If guests love it, it
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Ageless Adventurer: Although regular exercise and a balanced diet with healthy foods is the best way to stay healthy at any age, there are some tweaks you should be making as you age, including to your daily vitamin and mineral supplements. Here’s some healthy advice about what to eat in every decade of your life,
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Once again this year, national chain restaurants and other businesses are thanking our veterans and active military members on Veterans Day with FREE or discounted food or services on Saturday, Nov. 11, 2017. Some deals are available for veterans only, while others are valid for both vetarans and active military personnel, and some deals are valid the day
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Scam alert: restaurant upselling. Ever wonder why your restaurant bill is so much more than you expected? It’s probably because restaurant employees are trained to lure you to ordering more, and higher priced menu items, than you planned. What used to be called “bait-and-switch” is now called upselling, and restaurants are not alone in the
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Few things beat the smell and taste of a warm, freshly baked chocolate chip cookie. It has become the signature welcome greeting at DoubleTree Hotels around the world, the chain is celebrating the opening of its 500th hotel by publishing a FREE cookbook with cookie recipes, and more, to download. Although the original chocolate chip
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Any time is a good time to plan a visit to the city where every Chevrolet Corvette in the world is produced. Tour the National Corvette Museum and Mammoth Caves, one of the largest national parks in the USA.
Buyer Beware: Your favorite Starbucks beverage might contain as much as 25 teaspoons of sugar. That’s more than 1/4 cup of sugar and around 400 calories. Starbucks has just changed its Rewards program to reduce perks for purchases, but not the sugar content. Watered-down Starbucks Rewards program brews customer complaints 25 teaspoons of sugar in
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The real winner on Super Bowl Sunday will be chicken wings. According to the National Chicken Council’s 2015 Wing Report, 1.25 billion wings will be eaten Sunday during Super Bowl XLIX, as fans watch the Seattle Seahawks and New England Patriots battle for the Lombardi Trophy. That will match the chicken wings record last year
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