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Pollo Tropical sells catering from its own catering site, and the order form opens every hot package with the same question. Before you pick a protein, a rice or a sauce, you pick a format: Buffet Style or Individual Packaging.

The food stays the same either way. A Classic Pollo package for 25 carries the same chicken, rice, black bea...

The costume parade starts at three, and two kinds of food sit on the table. One is the spread you ordered: caprese skewers, a bowl of guacamole, a tray of cookies. The other is a bowl of fun-size candy that somebody tipped out of a grocery bag at lunch. The bag went into the recycling on their way back to their desk.

That bag carried the only complete label the candy ...

Curryous cooks Fijian-Indian food out of one San Francisco kitchen, and the menu is bilingual. Indian words and Fijian words sit on the same list, and both get used the way a working kitchen uses them, as the name of a thing. One of those words is an ingredient, and that is where this menu becomes easy to read.

The word is lolo, and lolo is the Fijian word for coconut ...

The Firebirds catering order form carries almost no labels. There is no badge for spicy, no badge for popular and no badge for new. There is one mark, a small asterisk after the name of a dish, and it sits on exactly seven of the 64 food items.

Those seven are the grill’s headline dishes: the sirloin, the salmon, the seared tuna, the roast beef and the steak penne. Th...

The all-hands ran short. You ordered for a full room, a third of it dialled in from home, and at two in the afternoon the counter still holds sealed boxed lunches, an untouched tray of grain salad and half a pan of roasted vegetables. You would give it away this afternoon if you knew it was allowed.

The worry that stops an office is liability. Somebody eats the food, ...