Wall Street Is Ready to Eat Trump"s Lunch

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Donald Trump exits after speaking during a joint session of Congress in Washington, D.C., February 28, 2017.

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The overdone Trump bump, a reference to the Dow Jones Industrial Averages relentless post-election romp to 21,000, is finally coming to an end, and with good reason. It was always a chimera anyway, and just a matter of time before the moneyed class, which recognizes executive incompetence when it sees it, finally came to its collective senses. After all, what is the president of the United States if not our nations C.E.O.? And two months into the job, it has become blatantly obvious the we have made the terrible mistake in hiring someone so deeply unqualified, and without the slightest aptitude for the challenges of the big desk. If Trump were beholden to a genuine board of directors, like most C.E.O.s, he would have been already fired for cause.

Instead, we are stuck with our duly elected buffoon, though he must contend with his 360-degree reviews, which are a veritable poo-poo platter of losing. There is, of course, the ongoing embarrassment regarding Trumps Twitter addictionas I have written before, this rattle really should be taken away from himparticularly his assertion that the Obama administration wiretapped his Trump Tower office in the days leading up to the November election. He has provided no evidence to back up his claim, in typical fashion. Despite sworn testimony from the F.B.I. director James Comey, Trump persists. According to the latest Gallup poll, only 39 percent of Americans approve of Trumps handling of the presidency so far. I agree with him that the number feels fake; it seems too high to me.

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Worse, however, Trump now must contend with the fact that he has now, once and for all, lost the Wall Street Journal editorial board. True, he lost columnist Bret Stephens long ago, but now he has lost the Republican mainstream, too. In a searing editorial, on March 21, the Journal went nuclear. The editorial board remains baffled why he persists in making his wiretapping claim, despite any evidence that it happened. Yet the president clings to his assertion like a drunk to an empty gin bottle, it wrote, rolling out his press spokesman to make more dubious claims. The paper noted that the wiretap tweet was also costing Trump politically by handing his opponents a sword, which it certainly has. They are using it to help sabotage many of the very policy initiativesfor instance, repealing Obamacare, lowering taxesthat he was supposedly hired to make happen, and which Wall Street enthusiastically anticipated. All of this continues the pattern from the campaign that Mr. Trump is his own worst political enemy, the Journal continued. He survived his many false claims as a candidate because his core supporters treated it as mere hyperbole and his opponent was untrustworthy Hillary Clinton. But now hes president, and he needs support beyond the Breitbart cheering section that will excuse anything. He was, the paper, concluded, in danger of becoming a fake president.

As far as Wall Street is concerned, losing the support of the Journal could be fatal. The recent drop in the Dow is just the tip of an iceberg increasingly starting to jut above the water line. As Ive noted before, the smart money guys at Goldman Sachs figure that Trumps promised tax cuts may not come until 2018, at best. Trumps health-care reformthe one that would remove 24 million Americans from coveragealready appears dead on arrival. The nonpartisan Tax Policy Council figures that Trump will increase the federal debt to $27 trillion, from the current $20 trillion, despite his campaign promises that he would do precisely the opposite. The bond market, which is twice the size of the stock market, has already correctly noticed that Trumps alchemy is a cause for financial concern. Since the election, the yield on the 10-year Treasury bond has backed up 26 basis points, to 2.40 percent. If Trumps much ballyhooed promise to reform financial regulations comes-a-cropper too, that could be the last straw.

Paul Ryan, the Speaker of the House, likes to talk euphemistically about Trump as an unconventional president. But its so much worse than that. In his campaign, candidate Trump promised that we would be winning so much that we would get sick of winning. Its clear now that, to use Journal politesse, that was just more Trump hyperbole. Whats really dawning on the markets is that Trump is utterly incompetent. Why has it taken this long? Its one thing to be unconventional and to promise to drain the swamp in Washington; its quite another to prove, in a matter of weeks, that those were simply the hollow musings of a lunatic. We all know where this is heading, even if millions of Americans are not yet ready to admit it: lets face it, Donald, youre fired.

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The O.G. Never Trumper, Romney effectively renounced his past denunciations of the president-elect, whom he had previously called a con man, when Trump began publicly courting him for secretary of state. (He did not get the job.)

Photo: Digital Colorization by Ben Park; From Getty Images.Chris ChristieDuring his presidential campaign, the New Jersey governor called Trump a thin-skinned, 13-year-old, whose ideas made no sense, so it was quite the surprise to see Christie standing shell-shocked at Trumps side, weeks after he dropped out, upon giving him his hearty endorsement.Photo: Digital Colorization by Ben Park; From Getty Images.Ted CruzAfter Trump insulted his wifes looks, the Texas senator responded by all-but calling his primary opponent a ratf***er and refused to endorse him during a speech at the Republican National Convention. But months later, not only did he urge his voters to pull the lever for Trump, he was spotted morosely phone-banking in front of his former enemys campaign signage.Photo: Digital Colorization by Ben Park.Reince Priebus

A long time ago, in the year 2016, the R.N.C. chairman threw everything he could to prevent Trump from becoming the partys nominee. Days after Trump won, Reince stood by his side as his chief of staff, possibly getting the least humiliating outcome for an erstwhile Trump foe.

Photo: Digital Colorization by Ben Park; From Getty Images.Paul Ryan

The House Speaker spent months trying to maintain a safe distance from Trump, condemning his statements (even as he declined to renounce him) and at one point canceling a rally appearance with Trump after his past p****-grabbing comments came to light. Flash-forward two months, and Ryan was praising Trump in front of a cheering crowd in Wisconsin, thanking him for clinching the first Republican presidential win in the state in decades.

Photo: Digital Colorization by Ben Park; From Getty Images.Jason ChaffetzIm out. I can no longer in good conscience endorse this person for president, the Utah congressman declared days after the Access Hollywood tapes leaked, calling Trumps comments some of the most abhorrent and offensive comments that you can possibly imagine. It took Chaffetz only 19 days to flip back to Trump.Photo: Digital Colorization by Ben Park; From Getty Images.Ben CarsonWhen Trump compared him to a child molester, the soft-spoken neurosurgeon responded that he would pray for him, the Carson equivalent of a sick burn. But after Carson wandered onstage at Mar-a-Lago to give his endorsement, he immediately transformed into one of Trumps most consistently confusing surrogates.Photo: Digital Colorization by Ben Park; From Getty Images.

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Mitt Romney

The O.G. Never Trumper, Romney effectively renounced his past denunciations of the president-elect, whom he had previously called a con man, when Trump began publicly courting him for secretary of state. (He did not get the job.)

Digital Colorization by Ben Park; From Getty Images.

Chris ChristieDuring his presidential campaign, the New Jersey governor called Trump a thin-skinned, 13-year-old, whose ideas made no sense, so it was quite the surprise to see Christie standing shell-shocked at Trumps side, weeks after he dropped out, upon giving him his hearty endorsement.

Digital Colorization by Ben Park; From Getty Images.

Ted CruzAfter Trump insulted his wifes looks, the Texas senator responded by all-but calling his primary opponent a ratf***er and refused to endorse him during a speech at the Republican National Convention. But months later, not only did he urge his voters to pull the lever for Trump, he was spotted morosely phone-banking in front of his former enemys campaign signage.

Digital Colorization by Ben Park.

Reince Priebus

A long time ago, in the year 2016, the R.N.C. chairman threw everything he could to prevent Trump from becoming the partys nominee. Days after Trump won, Reince stood by his side as his chief of staff, possibly getting the least humiliating outcome for an erstwhile Trump foe.

Digital Colorization by Ben Park; From Getty Images.

Marco RubioThe Florida senator, who Trump ruthlessly mocked as little and sweaty throughout the primary race, so despised his antagonist that he made the ill-fated decision to hit back in kind, mocking Trumps makeup and hand size. After he dropped out, it took several months for him to embrace Trump, though he could not bring himself to appear at the R.N.C. in person to make the endorsement, sending in a video instead.

Digital Colorization by Ben Park; From PBS.

Paul Ryan

The House Speaker spent months trying to maintain a safe distance from Trump, condemning his statements (even as he declined to renounce him) and at one point canceling a rally appearance with Trump after his past p****-grabbing comments came to light. Flash-forward two months, and Ryan was praising Trump in front of a cheering crowd in Wisconsin, thanking him for clinching the first Republican presidential win in the state in decades.

Digital Colorization by Ben Park; From Getty Images.

Jason ChaffetzIm out. I can no longer in good conscience endorse this person for president, the Utah congressman declared days after the Access Hollywood tapes leaked, calling Trumps comments some of the most abhorrent and offensive comments that you can possibly imagine. It took Chaffetz only 19 days to flip back to Trump.

Digital Colorization by Ben Park; From Getty Images.

Ben CarsonWhen Trump compared him to a child molester, the soft-spoken neurosurgeon responded that he would pray for him, the Carson equivalent of a sick burn. But after Carson wandered onstage at Mar-a-Lago to give his endorsement, he immediately transformed into one of Trumps most consistently confusing surrogates.

Digital Colorization by Ben Park; From Getty Images.

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Gwyneth Paltrow won"t eat an octopus because it"s "too smart to be food"

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The list of foods that Gwyneth Paltrow allows herself to eat continues to grow smaller.

According to a recent Slack conversation that was screen-captured and posted to Goops Instagram page, the actress and lifestyle mogul claims she can no longer eat octopus because theyre too smart to be food.

The conversation came about as Paltrow and her workers were discussing their favorite Los Angeles restaurants, and one staffer recommended she try the BBQ octopus at Cliffs Edge, reports People.

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Octopus (sic) are too smart to be food, responded Paltrow. They have more neurons in their brains than we do. I had to stop eating them because I was so freaked out by it. They can escape from sea world and s--- by unscrewing drains and going out to sea.

One of few of Paltrows employees was in complete agreement and a few others seemed shocked-- even though Paltrows remarks arent entirely factual.

For starters, Scientific American reports that octopuses have around 500 million neurons, while humans possess closer to 100 billion.

The story Paltrow speaks of, involving an octopus that escaped Sea World by unscrewing a drain, didnt exactly happen as she tells it, either Paltrow is likely misremembering the story of Inky, a male New Zealand octopus who escaped from the New Zealand National Aquarium in 2016. He didnt do so by unscrewing a drain, either: Inky slipped down a six-inch drainage pipe and into the Pacific Ocean.

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Thats not to say octopuses arent extremely crafty sea creatures. They have relatively large brains for their size, and more than half of their neurons are located in their arms meaning that those arms may have something like minds of their own, reports The Harvard Gazette.

Its also true that octopuses have been observed unscrewing the lids from jars on occasion.

Regardless, the animals are too smart for Paltrow and now perhaps some of her friends to consume.

So has she stopped eating squid, too? No, Paltrow told her employees. Squid is the dumb cousin, apparently.

Source: http://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/2017/03/23/gwyneth-paltrow-wont-eat-octopus-because-its-too-smart-to-be-food.html

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Pat Caputo - Football school? Michigan basketball tradition restored

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If weve heard it once, weve heard it a thousand times. Michigan is a football school. They dont give a hoot about basketball in Ann Arbor.

Its simply not true. The Wolverines have a long and storied basketball tradition.

For those of you who may not realize it, heres a history lesson.

Cazzie Russell and Michigans teams in the mid-1960s reached the Final Four twice, and lost an NCAA Championship Game to UCLA. It was legendary UCLA coach John Woodens second NCAA title.

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Rudy Tomjonavich was recently elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame. He was a truly dominant player for Michigan during the late 1960s and early 1970s, averaging 25 points and 14 rebounds per game.

Clarkstons Dan Fife captained the 1971 Wolverines to a 12-2 Big Ten record. In 1974, Pontiacs Campy Russell was the Big Ten Player of the Year as Michigan won the conference and advanced to the Elite Eight.

In the mid-1970s, Rickey Green and Phil Hubbard were fantastic as Michigan lost to Bobby Knights undefeated Indiana title team in the NCAA Championship Game.

There were many terrific players that played at Michigan during the 1980s, including Roy Tarpley, Clarkstons Tim McCormick and Gary Grant..

In 1989, Glen Rice led the Wolverines to the NCAA title. Then there was the Fab 5...

However, you feel about Chris Webber, Jalen Rose, coach Steve Fisher and the Ed Martin scandal, their impact on college basketball was huge - and unforgettable.

Even to some of Michigans legendary football players, basketball mattered. Bennie Oosterbaan was a basketball All-American, and coached the Wolverines in both sports. East Detroits Ron Kramer averaged 17 points and nine rebounds per game for the UM basketball team in 1950s. And Tom Harmon started two seasons for the Michigan basketball team. Yes, he wore No.98.

Its just there was a lull after the Fab 5, and it was a long one. But obviously, that time is over.

While Michigans run to the Sweet 16 of NCAA tournament this year was unexpected, it continued a recent trend.

The Wolverines advanced to the NCAA championship game in 2013 before losing to Louisville.

A year later, Michigan won the Big Ten regular season title before getting to the Elite Eight and losing to a close decision to Kentucky.

The Wolverines had a couple relatively down seasons. They were 4-6 to begin the Big Ten season this year. Crisler Center was sometimes not full.

Basketball was kind of lost in the Jim Harbaugh-football shuffle. Yet, while the basketball team has emerged from the shadows, its not necessarily the shock as often portrayed.

Zak Irvin was a 5-star recruit, Derrick Walton Jr. a 4-star. They are both outstanding senior leaders, who have emerged as extraordinarily clutch players late their senior campaigns. They are proof experience still counts in college basketball.

Think Moe Wagner just showed up one day in Ann Arbor from Germany unannounced and walked on? Hardly, he was a well-known, 4-star recruit.

Coach John Beilein is not exactly an unproven commodity. If the Wolverines beat Oregon Thursday, it will be his fourth trip to the Elite Eight. He also took West Virginia there. He is an exceptionally experienced head coach, who has won at pretty much every level of college basketball.

there is a perception Michigan State is ahead of the Wolverines in regard to the overall strength of their respective basketball programs, and it may very well be true considering the Spartans freshman class was much stronger.

Yet, if you look over the track record of the two programs the last five years, its been relatively even.

What weve discovered about Michigan basketball is to underestimate Beilein and his program at your own risk.

Its not a mistake the Wolverines have come this far. Its become more a norm than an aberration.

Just like it used to be at Michigan.

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Review: In "CHIPS," Blown-Up Cars Overshadow Buddy Cops

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A fascination with posteriors both human and feline isnt the worst thing about CHIPS, but its up there. Borderline incoherent and unrepentantly lewd, this buddy-cop comedy (based on the 1977-83 television series of the same name) substitutes cars, copters and motorcycles for actual characters. The language might be mature, but dont be misled: Theres nothing here that rises above the level of the playground.

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And thats too bad, because had there been, the talented Michael Pea wouldnt have had to work so hard to hold this minimally amusing mess together. As Ponch, an undercover federal agent investigating corruption in the California Highway Patrol, Mr. Pea struggles to make his character more than a walking erection. Thats tough when your new partner, Jon (Dax Shepard, who also wrote and directed), seems so fixated on his own equipment that he keeps forcing you to look at it. The mixed messages are clamorous.

Exhibitionism aside, Jon is a battle-scarred motocross rider who has joined the patrol to impress his estranged wife (Kristen Bell, Mr. Shepards real-life spouse). Together, the partners chase unidentifiable men in full-face helmets and converse about what constitutes an acceptable masturbation schedule. A corpulent and clearly embarrassed Vincent DOnofrio slips in and out of the frame as a dirty cop, and the delightful Rosa Salazar, playing a sexily competent colleague, deserves much more attention than the hardware-obsessed script is willing to give her.

I dont think we went more than three days on this movie without blowing something up, Mr. Shepard says in the publicity notes, betraying the pictures true intent. Yet beyond checking genre boxes, the action sequences, while undeniably flashy, often have debatable narrative utility. The accomplished cinematographer Mitchell Amundsen brings what context he can to the pyrotechnics, but not even he can perk up the movies drearily staged indoor setups. Focusing his camera intently on a cats backside, he must surely have been questioning his life choices.

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• Director Dax Shepard

• Writer Dax Shepard

• Stars Michael Pea, Dax Shepard, Jessica McNamee, Adam Brody, Ryan Hansen

• Rating R

• Running Time 1h 40m

• Genres Action, Comedy, Crime

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Toddlers Found Safe After Amber Alert in California. - KTVN Channel 2 - Reno Tahoe Sparks News, Weather, Video

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UPDATE:Two Southern California toddlers have been found safe after authorities located the car they"d been in when it was stolen.

The California highway patrol has activated an amber alert for toddlers in the Imperial, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino and San Diego counties late Thursday.

At approximately 6:45 p.m. Thursday one-year old Jaden Cortez and two-year-old Carlos Cortez were abducted from Cathedral City in the process of a car theft.Police say the suspect is unknown. The car is a 2016 white Honda Accord. License plate 7TJR654 with tinted windows.

Jaden Cortez is a one-year old hispanic male, he"s 1"5"" tall, weighs 30 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes. He was last seen wearing a white shirt and blue shorts.

Carlos Cortez is a 2-year old hispanic male, 2"0"" tall, weighs 40 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes. His clothing is unknown.

If the toddlers arelocated call 911.

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Power Rangers � Film Review An amusing teen fantasy slowly ...

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In the old Mighty Morphin Power Rangers TV show, the spandex-suited heroes fought many bizarre creations: a time-traveling cactus, a rapping upside-down jack-o-lantern, a pineapple-octopus hybrid named Pineoctopus that could also take the form of a clown, and a killer clutch purse with a lipstick sidekick. In their big-screen reboot, they fight a big, lumbering goopy molten gold thing. Its name is Goldar, which was also the name of a villain on the TV show who looked like one of the Wicked Witchs flying monkeys on steroids. This Goldar also has wings, but thats about all its got going for it; the effects are ugly, so the monster looks less liquid metal and more Velveeta cheese. As for the Power Rangers, their suits look like theyre made out of bowling b***s. They barely even get to wear them, and only in the last 20 minutes or so. Their thundering dino-mechanical Zords resemble rough renders of rejected Transformers, while their headquarters is a cheap knockoff of the dim Kryptonian spaceship from Man Of Steel. The Power Rangers-like parts of Power Rangers are bad enough to make one long for the goofy sight of rubber-suited Japanese stuntmen prancing around a rock quarry.

Of course, the TV franchise (there have been almost two dozen Power Rangers series to date) got most of its effects, monster, and action footage from the Japanese series Super Sentai. It was a strange hybrid of the weirdness of Japanese childrens programming and the same type of vapid early 90s American market testing that gave the world the Burger King Kids Club. But the peculiar thing about the new power rangers movie is that its most successful in handling this lamest aspect of its source material: the teenage soap opera. Its version of the Rangers is a superpowered Breakfast Club that meets by way of weekend detention. Jason (Dacre Montgomery), the red Ranger and destined group leader, was the star of the Angel Grove High School football team before he got arrested while trying to prank their rivals; Billy (RJ Cyler of Me And Earl And The Dying Girl), the blue Ranger, is a misfit with an autism-spectrum disorder who accidentally blew up his own locker; Kimberly (Naomi Scott), the purple (formerly pink) Ranger, is a popular kid with a mean streak; Zack (Ludi Lin), the black Ranger, is the too-cool-for-school Judd Nelson type; and Trini (Becky G.), the yellow Ranger, is an underwritten character.

The one part of the old TV aesthetic that has carried over to the new film is the rock quarryalways the anonymous, scraggly rock quarry. (Speaking of which, has anyone ever considered a crossover of Power Rangers and classic Doctor Who?) Something like half of Power Rangers is set in, around, or under the Angel Grove rock quarry, as this is where the new Rangers happen across the ancient alien medallions that will give them their powers and eventually lead them to the tutelage of Zordon (Bryan Cranston), an Oz-like floating head reimagined here as a wall-sized pin-screen toy. The intergalactic gobbledygook that should be the films bread and butter bears only perfunctory interest for director Dean Israelite (Project Almanac); his main concern is exaggerated teenage types getting into trouble and learning and mastering an assortment of superpowers. The climactic showdown between the Zord-piloting Rangers and their arch nemesis Rita Repulsa (Elizabeth Banks) is about as uninspired as these things getbut when it comes to the police chase that gets Jason in trouble, Israelite directs it as a continuous pan around the inside of a car, an homage to Steven Spielbergs The Sugarland Express by way of digital compositing effects.

This is the conundrum of Power Rangers: The closer it gets to fantasy spectacle, the less imaginative it becomes. Thanks to a better-than-average lead cast of near unknowns and Israelites fondness for zipping the camera down school hallways and across classrooms, the film works surprisingly well when it simply treats the Rangers as teenssomething the original TV series could never do, because its stars all looked 30 and couldnt act. Cyler and Lin both bring charisma to characters who could easily be one-note without ever compromising Billys asocial quirks or Zacks tough-guy demeanor. (Its also refreshing to see a movie that depicts a character who cant read cues and a household that speaks a language other than English without making a big deal of either.) But when it comes time to morph and break out the Zords to the sound of Go, Go, Power Rangers, the film groans and shuffles, like a sulky teen whos been told that they have to finish the dishes before they can borrow the minivan.

Note: Power Rangers producer Haim Saban is also the chairman of Saban Capital Group, which is a part owner of Univision Communications, the parent company of Fusion Media Group, which owns The A.V. Club.

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American palates are changing: Here"s what consumers want to eat

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Gone are the days of bland American staples like meatloaf and tuna casserole. These days, folks are craving dishes with bolder flavors from all corners of the globe.

"I think it"s been interesting to see over the past several years how consumer tastes are really changing," Mike Lukianoff, chief analytics officer for Fishbowl, told CNBC.

Fishbowl, which releases an annual list of emerging brands, found that consumers are craving a more robust diet filled with diverse foods.

"When we started tracking the emerging brands really what was popping up was the traditional staples," Lukianoff said, noting that burgers and pizza were the most popular trends. "Consumers latched onto that because it was already a part of their eating habits."

Now, Fishbowl"s list of emerging brands includes restaurants that specialize in Asian, Mediterranean, Middle Eastern, Filipino and Cuban delicacies.

"We are seeing much more diverse types of concepts," Lukianoff said.

The changing culinary landscape is the result of increased social media and television coverage that expand consumer awareness, and millennial eaters who are more adventurous and experimental with their food choices. Investment firms also are diving in, hoping to cash in on these trends.

Some 52 percent of millennials are more likely to visit a restaurant that offers new or innovative flavors, according to Technomic"s most recent flavor consumer trend report. In comparison, consumers over age 35 are only 35 percent more likely to visit these restaurants.

The food consulting firm also determined that 48 percent of millennials will spend more on a meal that features a new or innovative flavor. Only 33 percent of those over age 35 are willing to spend extra money on these dishes.

"These kinds of brands are becoming more accessible for the average American," Lukianoff said.

Xi"an Famous Foods, No. 3 on Fishbowl"s emerging brands list, has received praise and patronage from the likes of Anthony Bourdain and Bobby Flay, among others, as well as positive reviews on social platforms like Yelp.

"Xi"an is its own cult favorite," Fishbowl analyst Katharine Dalton told CNBC, noting that the restaurant is known for its authenticity and traditional menu items inspired by dishes found in the city of Xi"an in China.

The chain, which began as a small restaurant in Flushing, Queens, has expanded to 12 locations in New York and will soon expand to Boston and Washington.

Lemonade, a California-based chain dubbed a "hip cafeteria," is a healthy fast-casual chain that caught the eye of the global investment firm KKR in 2014. The chain is now in Fishbowl"s top 30 emerging brands this year and is expected to continue to grow in popularity.

"There"s been a lot of money coming into the restaurant industry," Lukianoff said. "People are putting in the investment dollars so these chains can exist and not just be a one-off."

Here"s a look at some of the other culturally diverse chains that made it onto Fishbowl"s emerging brands list:

• VERTS Mediterranean Grill (No. 2)
• Asian Box (No. 5)
• Cava Grill & Cava Mezze (No. 6)
• Sushirrito (No. 9)
• Havana 1957 (No. 18)
• Naf Naf Grill (No. 24)
• Jollibee (No. 29)

There is one potential hiccup for these chains, however.

"As more new and unique flavors become available, consumers become desensitized to them more quickly," Technomic wrote. "Operators and suppliers will need to continuously stay on top of flavor trends and raise the bar in order to drive traffic and sales."

Source: http://www.cnbc.com/2017/03/23/american-palates-are-changing-heres-what-consumers-want-to-eat.html

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