Prices on almost everything at the grocery store are up – except rotisserie chicken. Here’s why

(CNN) — At the grocery store, shoppers have seen food prices increase at their fastest pace in decades. Yet the price of one hot, juicy, spit-roasted favorite hasn’t budged at several top chains: rotisserie chickens. Despite a 16.4% annual increase in chicken prices rotisserie chickens remain $4.99 at Costco and BJ’s Wholesale Club. At Sam’s Club they cost a penny less than that. Meijer still sells its rotisserie chicken for $5.99, while Giant Eagle has kept it at $6.99 and Publix at $7.39. There’s a strategy behind these stores’ decision to keep rotisserie chicken prices steady — and it signals a lot about how grocers are trying to manage inflation while still holding onto their shoppers. 

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Keep food safety in mind during summer festivities

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Clean Plate: Restaurants with zero violations in Broward County in April, May

Burger Fi - Lauderdale By Sea - Perfect score 

A list of places that had ZERO VIOLATIONS on their unannounced routine food safety inspection in Broward County in April and May 2022. Most places are inspected twice a year, but it’s a risk-based system. Restaurant inspections are performed by the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation. We thank them all for making our health and safety a priority. 

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Leave the Sweatshirt at Home. Dining Dress Codes Are Back.

A number of restaurants are betting that Americans want to get gussied up again, but not everyone is thrilled about the fashion screening. 

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Here’s a Florida farm that attracts tons of visitors, thanks to this drool-worthy shortcake

Strawberry season is over in Florida -- and one sad part about that is, it means no more world-famous strawberry shortcake from Parkesdale Farm Market. But as is the case in general when trying to reserve rentals or map out vacations for next winter in Florida, it never hurts to start now if you’ll be planning a visit to Parkesdale.

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You'd never guess all the ingredients in Worcestershire sauce!

Worcestershire sauce has been around since 1837, when it was invented in England. It adds body to pasta sauce, spice to red beans and rice and depth of flavor to French onion soup. And you can’t make a good Bloody Mary without it. But what’s really in that paper-wrapped bottle at the back of your pantry? 

 

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Going to Plantation Walk, the hot new food-and-shopping paradise? Be prepared for surcharges

Tacocraft is the first — and so far, only — restaurant to open inside the $350 million food-shopping playground known as Plantation Walk. Diners and shoppers should be prepared for a 1 percent surcharge on their receipts, which was added by the shopping center's developer to finance entertainment events at the complex. (Susan Stocker / South Florida Sun Sentinel) After eating her shrimp salad at the new Tacocraft Taqueria and Tequila Bar at Plantation Walk in April, Ashley Munson scanned her table’s $61 lunch check. There it was, right at the bottom: a 61-cent fee called the “Plantation Walk Surcharge.” Munson and her three girlfriends flagged a server. “I just asked the waitress what it was, and she was like, ‘It’s for the entertainment in the center, I think?’” Munson recalls. “So I joked to the table, ‘Uh, that’s kind of stupid. Tacocraft is the only place here.’ And the waitress laughed and said, ‘Yes, lots of people have been saying the same thing.’ " 

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