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March 21, 2018

8 air travel perks that have all but disappeared

Try not to become misty-eyed at the bygone era of in-flight amenities.

March 21, 2018

Top 10 business class airlines

Long gone are the days when business class simply meant slightly larger seats and an extra pillow. Today's top business class airlines are pulling out all of the stops to make sure that passengers arrive at their destinations well-rested, well-fed (you can forget that microwaved airplane meal), and looking forward to a comfortable ride back home. With once-enviable amenities like fold-flat seats and in-flight films becoming the standard for intercontinental travel, more and more air carriers are looking to distinguish themselves through luxurious cabins that incorporate on-board lounges, personal entertainment systems and high-altitude haute cuisine. Read on to discover which airlines really mean business when it comes to giving their business class passengers the top-tier treatment.

March 21, 2018

5 outrageous Spirit Airlines fees

Customer service? Sorry, there’s a fee for that. Spirit Airlines recently made the quiet announcement that it will no longer offer its fliers a toll-free customer help number. Instead, the airline is switching to the not-free 801 area code. This tacks on yet another charge to the airline’s already outrageous fee list. According to a 2013 report by the marketing firm IdeaWorks, Sprit only came in one behind JetBlue for being the airline to make the most revenue from fees – and that was out of a sample of 50 carriers. We’ve rounded up some of the craziest fees on Spirit’s long list of charges. Here are some of the more ridiculous ones:

March 21, 2018

How to not get suckered by carnival games

It’s almost that time of year again, when we stock up on cotton candy, hop on Ferris Wheels and try our hands at winning big on carnival games. While it’s always tempting to go double or nothing on the balloon pop, just remember that you don’t have to get duped into forking out a fortune to have a good time. Here are our top insider tips for not getting suckered into blowing your life savings at the carnival this summer.

March 20, 2018

14 menu items fast food workers confess they would never order

Prepare to have your heart broken and childhood memories destroyed.

March 20, 2018

Unhealthiest hot Starbucks drinks

Some of these beverages contain enough sugar to induce a diabetic coma in a Shetland pony.

March 20, 2018

10 ways to reduce your restaurant tab

We’ve rounded up ten ways to save money when dining at restaurants.

March 20, 2018

Failed Starbucks drinks and products

Ever heard of the Starbucks Chantico? Seven products and drinks that didn't quite click for Starbucks.

March 20, 2018

Which states drink the most (and least) beer?

Which state takes on the most share of our national beer intake? The Beer Institute is able to answer that question.

March 20, 2018

McDonald's 10 most spectacular menu flops

The McDonald’s that we know and love, identified by those iconic Golden Arches, had humble beginnings. The restaurant first opened as McDonald’s Bar-B-Q Restaurant in San Bernardino, Calif., in 1940, serving a simple menu of hamburgers, cheeseburgers, fries, and shakes. Over the next several years, founders Dick and Mac McDonald renovated the restaurant and highlighted their $0.15 hamburger.   In 1954, Ray Croc visited the restaurant and talked the McDonald brothers into creating a national burger chain. The first franchised McDonald’s location opened in Des Plaines, Ill., in 1955 incorporating the very first Golden Arches, designed by architect Stanley Meston. Today, McDonald’s is the largest hamburger fast-food chain in the world, and serves more than 58 million customers daily. While McDonald’s continues to have a set staple menu throughout most of their locations, the chain is continuously trying to invent both local, national and international menu items to bolster its offerings.   For instance, specialty menu items such as the Big Mac or Chicken McNuggets have been huge commercial successes across the board. But other items have been launched, and have subsequently vanished just as quickly. Items such as the Bacon Bacon McBacon, the Chicken Parmesan Sandwich, and the Home-Fried Chicken never quite caught on with American consumers. In local markets, McDonald’s has even rolled out items like the McLobster on the East Coast, poutine in Canada, and the McCrab in parts of Maryland, Delaware, and Virginia In order to assemble our list of the top 10 McDonald’s flops, we took into account the cost of the (unsuccessful) advertising campaign, the lack of commercial success of an item, as well as the duration of which the particular product or promotion existed. So the least successful of the lot were ones that not only came and went quickly, but wasted plenty of the company’s money as well. McDonald’s continues to roll out new products all the time; some will make it big, others will vanish off the menu without a trace.