Taking the kids out for dinner doesn't have to be a traumatic - or dull - experience marked by bad food and service, discovers Virgil Evetts.

With 85,000 hungry Rugby World Cup fans set to arrive in New Zealand in a few weeks, Dionne Christian looks at the level of hospitality and whether we are truly being served.

A call to ban energy drink cans featuring overt sexual messages has been made by the National Council of Women.

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Shareholdings associated with Charlie's founders Marc Ellis and Stefan Lepionka are worth about $18 million each under the takeover bid for the beverage company launched by Japanese giant Asahi.