Volunteers, good preparation and a cool head vital in getting Christmas Day meal to 2500 City Mission diners.

French officials have fined a pub in Brittany €9,000 for "undeclared labour" after a customer returned some empty glasses to the bar.

I bought this thinking it was a traditional Christmas pudding full of fruit and only discovered when I got it home that it was a chocolate pudding.

It is dearly loved by TV duo Wallace and Gromit and famous the world over, and now Wensleydale cheese has been awarded official protection by the European Union.

This Christmas we want to love food and hate waste. Check out our favourite leftover recipes and share your own idea.

The banana is under threat, with insect plagues reducing global supplies. Rosie Millard of the Independent wonders where we’d be without the lovable fruit.

Coca-Cola's failure to convince the High Court that Pepsi breached its trademark by selling drinks with similar-shaped bottles could have far-reaching implications.

The pretzel-bunned burger heralded by Time magazine as the "most important" of the year may be on its way to New Zealand.

Restaurant workers around the US are being photographed with huge smiles on their faces holding up receipts with tips of up to $10,000.

A small French café has taken the old adage that manners don’t cost you anything to its logical extreme – by charging extra to rude customers.

Funded by prominent Silicon Valley investors and Bill Gates, Hampton Creek Foods seeks to disrupt a global egg industry that backers say wastes energy, pollutes the environment, causes disease outbreaks and confines chickens to tiny spaces.

When celebrity chefs cut themselves, how much they bleed is a matter of brand.

Summer is here and so, too, is the sudden need for children to have frozen treats stacked in the freezer.

Jamie Oliver is to open an Italian restaurant in Auckland next year - but has vetoed SkyCity's dining precinct because he doesn't want to be associated with gambling.

The first pear from a new range of NZ-harvested, hybrid fruits - piqaboo - has been unveiled in HK and will have its first commercial planting next year.

Taco Bell is back on the menu for New Zealand fast food operator Restaurant Brands.

The real-life appearance of fast food doesn't have to match up with how it looks in the ads, the advertising watchdog has ruled.

Shopowner wants to provide a place to rest and hopefully lure customers, but council insists it has to charge.

A crop of fruit and vegetable markets and retailers were pulled up after failing to correctly label irradiated tomatoes and capsicums imported from Australia.