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Dining insperiences, Parisian style

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French Kit a bien manger is doing for Paris what Leaping Salmon did so well for London until they sadly disappeared: delivering semi-ready meals to busy urbanites, who want to dine well, but don’t care for the shopping and chopping.

Deliveries include all the ingredients for a stylish dinner, and cooking instructions. Part-time gourmands put it all together and get the satisfaction of having prepared their own fresh starters, entrees, and desserts.

Prices charged rival those at top-end restaurants, and reflect the fact that Kit a bien manger is sourcing its ingredients from exclusive purveyors, going after moneyed professionals looking for a proper insperience. Needless to say, customers can choose from a wide range of wines to accompany their meals (which is, as every food expert knows, where you make the real margins).

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Indian food that was both fast and healthy

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Founder Jared Ross started Veda with the intention of serving Indian food that was both fast and healthy. Veda cooks with minimal amounts of oil, has a simple menu and uses high quality, healthy ingredients, with plenty of vegetarian options.

VEDA in Toronto

Bangkok's Smallest Hotel LUXX,

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probably the smallest hotel in Bangkok introduces a new taste of luxury for its guests. Going by the theme, “Beyond Hotel…Stay with LUXX,” this home for the young, hip and trendy traveller is bringing design, comfort and experience to a new level. From being a home of one of the owners to a left alone building, a young architect and designer merge a vision to create a premium class accommodation facility to fit the taste of the young, hip and trendy.

LUXX

Family dinners

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Dinner assembly companies offer essentially the same service: customers schedule a session online, picking meals from a monthly menu. The store, a large commercial-grade kitchen, organizes freshly chopped and prepared ingredients in practical stations. Customers move around the store, assembling a meal at each station by scooping ingredients into freezer bags or disposable baking pans. Meals are easily customized to accommodate personal tastes or diets – the customer just adds more or less fresh garlic or ginger, or substitutes pork for beef. Finally, the packaged meals are clearly labeled with cooking instructions.

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The whole process takes about 2 hours, preparing 12 six-serving, or 24 three-serving meals at a cost of around USD 3 per serving. And no time spent shopping for food, planning meals, prepping beforehand and cleaning up afterwards.

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The quick, portable breakfast at Starbucks

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The coffee chain, which has become known for much more than just coffee, jumped into the fast-food breakfast fray Wednesday with the introduction of five sandwiches on toasted English
The sandwich line — now available in 126 Chicago Starbucks stores — is their take on the quick, portable breakfast that Oak Brook-based McDonald’s has made its hallmark and that more American consumers seem to want.

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Los Angeles Times

Harrods luxury convenience store

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Dubbed Harrods 102, the new store brings luxury and convenience together in a one-stop concept. Besides selling groceries and wine, Harrods 102 also houses a Yo! Sushi bar, a Krispy Kreme stand, florist, pharmacist, dry cleaning service, and oxygen bar.

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A latte with your bank loan

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As competition for deposits intensifies, a number of banks are trying to capture customers’ attention by revamping their buildings to look more like coffeehouses and retail boutiques, and less like the stodgy brick-and-mortar operations of old. The new designs stress more open spaces and softer lines to create a less-formal environment, and more common areas and activities to encourage people to linger longer — and get them to shop for more banking products.

NC Financial Services Group Inc.’s PNC Bank is unveiling more than 40 newly designed branches this year that feature amenities such as Internet cafes and coffee bars.

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Umpqua Bank customers often stop by the local branch to print out business documents using the bank’s computers or to have a cup of coffee.

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Wall Street Journal