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By Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN Business If you visit an IHOP in the not-too-distant future, chances are you may encounter some unexpected menu items that weren’t available before: beer, wine and bubbly. That’s because for the first time, IHOP is offering its franchisees, which run the vast majority of IHOP restaurants, the chance to add an

By Laura He, CNN Business China’s big crackdown on business appears far from over. Top leaders from the ruling Communist Party on Wednesday laid out a blueprint for how they plan to continue tightening the regulatory screws on companies over the next five years. The country’s latest five-year plan includes promises to strengthen rules that

By Jessie Yeung and Swati Gupta, CNN Two more bodies have been recovered from the rubble of a landslide in the northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh, police said Friday, taking the death toll to 15 — with at least 18 people still missing. The landslide, which hit on Wednesday morning local time, left a

By Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN Business Customers are buying Wendy’s breakfast. And the chain wants to keep it that way. The company announced on Thursday that it will spend an additional $10 million to advertise breakfast this year, bringing its overall spending on breakfast ads to $25 million in 2021. The investment is designed to get

By Brian Stelter, CNN Business When the new season of “Jeopardy!” debuts on September 13, executive producer Mike Richards will be behind the host lectern. Richards was named the official new host on Wednesday, as expected, but Sony Pictures Television also announced a surprise: Mayim Bialik will be the host of occasional prime time episodes

By Moira Ritter, CNN Business America’s prices are continuing to rise as the economy recovers from the pandemic, and consumer wallets are feeling the squeeze. If you’re looking for a bright side, though, prices didn’t rise as much in July as in prior months, indicating that price increases might at least be slowing down a

By Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Business If you walked into a grocery store last year, you may have made some unfortunate discoveries: No reduced-fat Jif peanut butter on shelves. Less Progresso soup. Fewer varieties of Smucker’s Uncrustables sandwiches available. All are examples of food that consumer goods manufacturers stopped making in 2020. So unless there was

By Jordan Valinsky, CNN Business The Delta variant of Covid-19 is weighing on Southwest Airlines’ bottom line. The carrier said in a regulatory filing Wednesday that customers this month have been booking fewer flights and are increasingly canceling the trips they’ve already booked. That prompted Southwest to lower its operating revenue estimates for the month

By Jordan Valinsky, CNN Business The resignation of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo gave the late night shows plenty to talk about Tuesday. On NBC, Jimmy Fallon led with the news of the stunning announcement. “During his remarks, he said it was best he step aside,” the host said. “And then every woman in the

By Anneken Tappe, CNN Business Higher prices have been the pandemic recovery‘s collateral damage. Even though Washington insists higher inflation may just be temporary, America’s prices keep rising — albeit at a slightly slower pace. The pace of consumer price inflation slowed some in July, but it still remained elevated, the Bureau of Labor Statistics

Opinion by Alexi Robichaux for CNN Business Perspectives As the CEO of a company that provides leadership coaching, I struggled during the pandemic to find the balance between the positive impact our products and services could make in the world, and managing my — and my employees’ — exhaustion. It was clear that it was

By Charles Riley, CNN Business American politicians from both major parties have spent years advocating for an overhaul of the nation’s infrastructure. Those efforts always ended in failure until Tuesday, when 19 Republican senators voted with Democrats to approve a $1.2 trillion package that includes money to improve roads and bridges across the country. The

By Matt Egan, CNN Business Americans living in high-risk Covid states are starting to shy away from restaurants, malls and airports as the Delta variant rapidly spreads. And real-time economic indicators suggest the Delta variant is slowing the recovery in some of the hardest hit sectors, even though the impact is not yet being felt

By Christina Maxouris, CNN Serenade Foods is recalling nearly 60,000 pounds of frozen, raw, breaded and pre-browned stuffed chicken products that could be contaminated with Salmonella Enteritidis, the USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service announced Monday. The products were produced on February 24 and February 25, 2021, and were shipped to distributors across the country,