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The internet is divided over people ordering catering from chains like Chipotle to hack their weekly meal prep. We crunched the numbers. In a TikTok video from January, fashion influencer Madi Webb unboxes an enormous catering delivery from a nearby Brazilian restaurant. “I feel like I just cracked the code,” she says, explaining that the order of chicken and veggies cost only $100 for a week of lunches. Since then, all over social media, people like Webb are claiming they’re ordering catering from local restaurants and big chains to hack their weekly meal prep. They take the food home, portion...

U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., was briefly detained by police Friday when she joined airline catering employees in a protest at Detroit Metro Airport, according to reports. Photos posted on social media showed Tlaib, 43, sitting in the road outside the airport’s Delta terminal, along with eight other protesters - while a larger group of protesters demonstrated on the sidewalk nearby. Many held signs reading, “One Job Should Be Enough,” as the group called for better wages health coverage. Initial reports said Tlaib was arrested in the matter, but a union official later said Tlaib was only briefly detained.

The Dept. of Homeland Security has filed legal docs soliciting bids from food service companies to provide meals at the Customs and Border Patrol area of Brownsville, TX. According to the docs, the company will provide up to 600 meals daily for detainees. The vendor must serve "nutritionally balanced" breakfasts, lunches and dinners ... and there are Mexican options. BREAKFAST Potato and egg in a flour tortilla Ham and egg in a flour tortilla Bean and cheese taco option LUNCH AND DINNER Burgers Turkey sandwiches Chicken fajita The docs state all veggies, fruits and beans must be thoroughly cleaned ......

SAN FRANCISCO -- The National Organization for Women filed complaints against local Hooters restaurants Thursday, but not for exploiting its scantily clad waitresses by subjecting them to leering and groping customers. The subject this time was Hooters' catering to children. The restaurants in San Francisco, San Bruno, Sacramento and Orange County are classified as "adult entertainment" establishments but also serve minors, NOW's California chapter said in papers filed with police and prosecutors. What's more, the organization said, Hooters provides child menus, high chairs and booster seats, and sells T-shirts in children's sizes that identify the wearer as a "Future Hooters...

The U.S. Embassy in Islamabad warned that terror groups may have “established links” to a Pakistan catering firm owned by a suspect connected to the May 1 botched car bombing in Times Square. The suspect was among 6 people detained in Pakistan tied to U.S. bombing suspect Faisal Shahzad, a Pakistani security official said.

(IsraelNN.com) Despite an international diplomatic and media campaign to portray themselves as impoverished refugees, local Arabs are expected to swarm into several new luxury malls which are opening in Arab-populated areas of Judea, Samaria, and other parts of Israel. Last month, fireworks burst above Jenin's new Hirbawi Home Center, a luxury shopping center on the outskirts of a city notorious for producing terrorists. In 2002 as part of Operation Defensive Shield, a bloody battle took place between Israel Defense Forces and terror cells in the town, during which 23 Israeli soldiers and 52 Arabs were killed.

Responding to allegations of discrimination, the school district has concluded that an elementary school catering to students of Mexican descent is following its charter, officials said Monday. The district sent observers after Sandy Wells, a reporter working for KABC-AM, was allegedly assaulted outside the school Thursday by a man who demanded his audio tape. Station officials said Wells was also followed as he drove away. Police are investigating the incident. "They have followed the charter that they wrote originally," said Kevin Reed, chief legal counsel for the district. "What we care about is that the curriculum is inclusive and not...

WITH CALIFORNIA political leaders already behaving illogically and erratically on illegal immigration, I have a sense of dread about what they'll do after the May 1 job walkout by backers of amnesty for illegal immigrants. For years, illegal-immigration policy in California has been driven by fear -- fear of being unfairly labeled "anti-Latino" is one reason the California Legislature doesn't study basic questions, such as, "What does it cost the average California taxpayer to support an illegal immigrant?" Nervous Sacramento politicians don't talk openly about crucial policy issues, such as the cost to California's infrastructure from illegal immigration. Now, even...

UNITED NATIONS - In a widening scandal over contracts, the United Nations announced Friday that it has suspended a subsidiary of the world's largest catering company as a U.N. supplier until the outcome of an investigation into alleged contract irregularities. The suspension is the latest blow to U.N. contracting which in recent months has seen the arrest of two Russians by the FBI for alleged money laundering. U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said Eurest Support Services, or ESS, has been barred from seeking new U.N. contracts until completion of a U.N. investigation into allegations that it "improperly obtained" internal U.N. information...