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Can A Restaurant Makeover Make Diners Spend More?

Can tweaking one table turn around a restaurant's prospects?

Are All Vodkas The Same?

What’s the real difference between cheap and luxury vodka? We make our own, and send it to a lab, to find out.

The Great Data-Driven Restaurant Makeover

Can tweaking one table turn around a restaurant's prospects?

Bathtub Vodka

Is there really a difference between cheap and expensive vodkas? We go on a mission to learn how super premium vodka is made and marketed. Then we make our own, to see how it measures up.

A Trunk Full Of Truffles

We follow a young truffle dealer as he hustles his way across New York City, then try to figure out why people pay so much for this funky fungus.

What Is A Sandwich? (Or, John Hodgman Calls In To Leonard Lopate To Argue With Me)

Is a hot dog a sandwich? What about a burrito? This timeless debate turned especially heated when John Hodgman called in to WNYC to argue with me about it.