🍔Babies Eat Meat While Adults Order Kids’ Meals in America?👶🥩

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✔ Demand for restaurant space in NYC has hit record highs, fueling retail real estate recovery.

• From QSR chains to giant steakhouses, spaces are vanishing fast — some tenants even pay $100K to retrofit spaces.

• Manhattan’s top 11 districts saw availability drop to 12.8%, the lowest since 2014.

🧑🏻💬 “If you can vent it, you can rent it.” Dining truly drives the city now🍴

🔗_{Wall Street Journal}

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✔ 44% of respondents said they’ve ordered a kids’ meal for themselves.

• Reasons include smaller portions, cheaper prices, and simpler choices.

• Circana: Adult purchases of kids’ meals up 30% from 2019–2025.

🧑🏻💬 There’s certainly a kidult demand chasing high-quality collab toys like McDonald’s Happy Meals, but it also aligns with Korea’s single-bowl delivery meals and cup food trends. Smaller, cheaper options reflect both wellness-driven “small eating” habits and today’s economic pressures🍱

🔗_MarketWatch

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✔ Some U.S. parents are raising infants on “Carnivore Baby” diets of meat, organs, eggs, and butter.

• One mom started with raw egg yolk & chicken liver purée, then expanded to sardines, butter, bone-broth popsicles, and lamb legs.

• Facebook groups like “Carnivore Motherhood” share all-meat baby recipes.

🧑🏻💬 “Carnivore kids” show how diet trends trickle from parents to children. Still, experts warn about risks, stressing vitamin C and fiber for balanced growth🥦

🔗_{Wall Street Journal}

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✔ After $26 cocktails, desserts now hit entrée-level pricing at $30+.

• At Sailor NYC: rhubarb meringue $30; Stissing House: strawberry cobbler with chamomile ice cream $39.

• Rising costs push restaurants to differentiate with high-priced desserts, framing “expensive = special.”

🧑🏻💬 Honestly, $30 could get me shabu-shabu in Korea… but in NYC, that’s just dessert🍫

🔗_Eater

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✔ Hudson Valley’s popular Moonrise Bagels set to open in Greenwich Village.

• Star item: the “Stuffed Bagel,” a heftier take vs. smaller bagel balls.

• Options: onion, sesame, everything, plain — with fillings like Buffalo chicken, pastrami, bacon-egg-cheese, vegan sausage.

🧑🏻💬 For bagel fans, this feels like New York’s version of a “bread-wrapped burger.” Curious if we’ll see something similar in Korea too🥯

🔗_{Eater NY}

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