Pollo Campero, Latin America’s largest chicken restaurant chain known for its signature fried and grilled chicken and side dishes, will open its first restaurant in Caguas on Feb. 20, marking its official debut in Puerto Rico’s gastronomic arena.
If you’ve gone to a fast-food restaurant lately and noticed a sign announcing a minimum purchase of $10 if paying with a credit card, you should know the policy responds to a federal law passed late last year regulating so-called “swipe fees,” or what merchants must pay debit card companies to process transactions.
The controversy over whether Nutritional Assistance Program benefits should be expanded to include more fast-food restaurants escalated another notch Thursday when the Alliance for Adequate Nutrition supported its claim that it would be a mistake to do so by citing the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s recent opposition to the proposal.
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