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Did your favorites make the cut? On Monday, Trader Joe’s announced the 15th Annual Customer Choice Awards. The only products not eligible for these honors are the ones that won so often over the years that they’ve been installed in the TJ Hall of Fame. (Hello, Mandarin Orange Chicken.) This year’s winners are: Favorite overall: For the second consecutive year, it’s the Rolled Corn Tortilla Chips, Chili-Lime flavor. (The Steamed Chicken Soup Dumplings took second place.) Favorite beverage: Spiced Apple Cider, a seasonal…

Parkway Food Hall, a 16,000-square-foot facility featuring eight restaurant spots, a full bar and several other amenities, is planned to open in the former Alfalfa’s grocery store spot at 700 Ken Pratt Blvd. in Longmont in May. “There’s nothing like this in Longmont,” Chris Nehls, Blackfox Parkway Associates vice president, said in a release. “Though Denver has one of the highest rates of food halls in the country, Longmont has been left out of the fun, until now.” Blackfox Parkway Associates owns the building where…

Scientists have discovered that a genetic mutation that triggers a molecular domino effect causing hearing loss mirrors the mechanism involved in noise- and age-related hearing loss. They believe that inhibiting the key player in this mechanism could instead protect all ears from damage and even prevent deafness.Finding specific and important commonalities in animal and human studies, University of California San Francisco (UCSF) researchers found that Tmtc4 gene mutations trip a mechanism known as the unfolded protein…

Kat Marie sometimes meets her adult clients in private places, where she swaddles them in baby blankets, fixes bowls of cereal, plays Saturday morning cartoons and even changes their diapers. It’s all in a day’s work as a Denver-based lifestyle model, and building trust and confidence among her clientele is essential. Without it, they won’t pay Kat Marie for her attention as an adult baby caregiver or for her work satisfying other sexual fetishes. But when a fraudulent website in the United Kingdom stole her photograph…

The drive-thru entrance to a Salad and Go location.Source: Salad and GoWhen Sweetgreen went public two years ago, co-founder and CEO Jonathan Neman said the salad chain aspired to be the "McDonald's of its generation."But another salad rival could beat Sweetgreen to the punch: Salad and Go.Founded in 2013, the upstart chain is nearing its publicly traded rival's store count, with more than 100 locations and counting. With backing from private equity firm Volt Investment, it has ambitious expansion plans for 2024 beyond…

Burger King fast food restaurant with menu and customers.Jeff Greenberg | Universal Images Group | Getty ImagesRestaurant Brands International is buying Carrols Restaurant Group, the largest Burger King franchisee in the U.S., for about $1 billion in cash.Restaurant Brands will pay $9.55 per share to acquire Carrols, which operates more than 1,000 Burger King restaurants and 60 Popeyes locations. Carrols' stock closed at $8.42 on Friday, giving it a market value of $459 million. The company's shares closed up 12% on…

If you are experiencing feelings of distress and isolation, or are struggling to cope, The Samaritans offer support; you can speak to someone for free over the phone, in confidence, on 116 123 (UK and ROI), email [email protected], or visit the Samaritans website to find details of your nearest branch.Paul Mescal hopes that he does not become even more famous than he is after the release of his upcoming film, Gladiator 2.The 27-year-old Irish actor, who is taking on the lead role in the upcoming sequel to Ridley Scott's…

A popular event series that closed Denver’s streets to cars and opened them to cyclists and pedestrians will not return in 2024 despite attracting an estimated 40,000 people to experience downtown in a new way. The monthly event series, called ¡Viva! Streets, was inspired by similar events in Latin America called ciclovías, meaning “cycleways.” During the event, 3.5 miles of roadways in the heart of Denver closed to vehicles. The goal, according to organizers at the Downtown Denver Partnership, was to bring people…

The custom marble bar is in, the chandelier installed and ambience is set. Time to pour drinks. Done Deal, Troy Guard’s newest concept and first wine and cocktail bar, opens Tuesday, Jan. 16., in the Republic Plaza lobby at 370 17th St. “I think it’s a sexy bar,” Guard told BusinessDen inside Done Deal last week. “I think this area up here needs something like this. Everything is focused down towards Union (Station) and nothing is up this way.” Guard, his wife and sommelier Nikki, and manager Miranda Thomson, crafted Done…

Updated Jan. 15, 2024 2:27 pm ETAppleis removing a blood-oxygen sensor from some of its smartwatches to get around a patent dispute related to the technology, a step likely to avoid further sales disruptions but one that may raise questions about the company’s push into health.The company halted sales of some watch models briefly last month after a U.S. import ban went into effect stemming from an October ruling by the U.S. International Trade Commission. The trade agency found Apple had violated the patents of…