The folks at one of my favorite local sources of pizza, Smack Dab in Chicago, have the endearing habit of writing me…

Typically The Takeout’s Hot Links stories are dedicated to sharing articles from journalists and websites that have…

I have never been lucky enough to have a boat or have a friend who will take me out in their boat, but I imagine…

Update, August 14, 2020: This has been a tumultuous year for Claudio Velez, aka Chicago’s Tamale Guy. His business…

At the height of the COVID-19 outbreak (which admittedly hasn’t ended yet) a number of cities across the U.S. passed…

It seems so obvious, it’s amazing no one thought of it earlier: Instead of posting food on Instagram simply for all…

As you have no doubt heard by now—or experienced yourself firsthand as you tire of cooking and turn to simpler…

We’ve written a lot about third-party food delivery apps, particularly in recent months, given the increased use of…

“Let me start this newsletter with a story about Pizza Arbitrage.”

It’s not that we didn’t already know that third-party delivery apps had their problems, it’s just that the COVID-19…

How have your local businesses been dealing with in-store shopping during the COVID-19 pandemic? Most of mine have…

Well, this is unexpected. Even as beloved restaurants have found ways to pivot to grocery supply to weather the…

7-Eleven really, really wants you to use its home delivery app. The convenience store chain launched 7Now about a…

A pandemic is not the time to think inside the box. That’s as true for anyone bored and cooped up at home as it is…

The 21st century has introduced professionals of all types to a certain kind of workplace calamity: the reply-all…

Everyone knows that in times of peril, dogs can be trusted to rise to the occasion and do something heroic. They…

If Boober Eats sounds like the sort of thing you’d come up with while free-associating with your buddies late at…

Of all the well-oiled machines the COVID-19 outbreak has thrown a wrench into, you’ll occasionally find ones that…

These are perilous times to be a worker in a restaurant, let alone the owner of one, but the people who run i…

This week has brought back two of my most enduring memories of 9/11 and the immediate aftermath.