Wednesday, June 4

Eatin' Good in the Neighborhood - Ben will be in heaven on his next trip to Manhattan, for it seems the fabled chain restaurants of suburban middle America are setting up shop in the Big Apple. At last, New Yorkers will have a clue what all those Applebee's TV commercials are about. Yet something about this story rings a bit false. After all, as the report admits, there's been a T.G.I. Friday's in Times Square for ages. But perhaps the point is that the chains are now infiltrating NYC's neighborhoods, not just the tourist traps where natives fear to tread.