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With Howard University’s Homecoming season attracting many people to Washington D.C., local businesses are planning the anticipation of a high customer count.

The inaugural event marks the beginning of a local movement to increase engagement, recognition and support for arts initiatives for the Caribbean diaspora around the country.

Longtime Washington landmark Ben's Chili Bowl plans to spread its half-smokes and chili cheese fries well beyond the Beltway.

An iconic D.C. restaurant plans to expand outside the DMV very soon. Ben's Chili Bowl wants franchises nationwide. 

Ben's Chili Bowl's famous half-smokes are one of D.C.'s most iconic foods. Soon, they could be available outside the D.C. area.

Groton ― It wasn’t even 9:30 a.m., and Commis Boggan had already walked into the employment office at Electric Boat, shared his top choices for a trade, sat through a half-hour interview, accepted a j...

Ben's established itself as a pillar of DC's Black community so firmly that customer donations helped it stay in business during the pandemic.

Manger Packing Corp. turns out about 9,000 pounds a week of half-smoke sausage, considered a signature food of the nation's capital. Most of the half-smokes are destined for Washington — to the new National Museum of African American History and Culture and to the beloved Ben's Chili Bowl.

Media Credit: File Photo by Sophia Young | Contributing Photo Editor Restaurants in D.C. hope to use bubble tents, or "igloos," to keep diners eating outdoors as temperatures plummet this winter. For many working in the food industry, restaurants are not just a place of work. Coworkers are like family. Saying goodbye to some of those family members was one of the most difficult parts of the COVID-19 pandemic, Tonic at Quigley’s Managing Partner Jeremy Pollok said. Tonic laid off about 75 perc...