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NDTV
07-08-2025
- Entertainment
- NDTV
Ankush Bahuguna Bakes Tiramisu With Selena Gomez At Rare Beauty Event
Indian content creator Ankush Bahuguna had a dream-come-true moment when he met Selena Gomez at the Rare Beauty event in Malibu, California. The two bonded over a baking session and whipped up a delicious pistachio tiramisu together. This unforgettable experience was part of the launch event for Rare Beauty's new fragrance, Eau de Parfum. Ankush, the only Indian and male influencer among 30 global beauty creators to attend the event, shared his excitement and gratitude on Instagram. The content creator shared a video showcasing the fun moments he shared with Selena. In the caption, he wrote, "Just casually baking Tiramisu with @selenagomez! What is this life! @sephora_india. At the launch of the new @rarebeauty Eau de parfum that smells exactly like this moment right here!" In the comment section, Ankush added, "Imagine being the ONLY Indian & the only guy in a room full of creators from all around the world!" He exclaimed, "Sorry, can't reply because I've fainted." See the video here: View this post on Instagram A post shared by Wing It with Ankush Bahuguna (@wingitwithankush) Back in May, Selena Gomez and her fiance Benny Blanco, made an appearance on the Table Manners with Jessie and Lennie Ware podcast. When they were asked to name their 'last supper meals, Benny said that he would like to have corn casserole, a type of sweet cornbread, made by his ladylove. Revealing Selena's last meal, he selected one of his home-cooked dishes - steak. Explaining the preparation process, Benny said, 'She wants my steak, specifically. I do like a ribeye, and then I usually smoke it low for a long time, and then I sear it at the end. I smoke it in a smoker for like, an hour.' The outcome is an appetising 'medium smoke' and an 'almost barbecue-like' steak. Selena Gomez listed some other items she would like on her final meal menu, such as her grandmother's rice and tamale, her Nana's chicken and dumplings, salmon sushi topped with sesame seeds and dipped in soy, Mexican Pizza from Taco Bell, Coke slushie and nachos served with pickled jalapenos. Read the full story here.
Miami Herald
16-07-2025
- Business
- Miami Herald
Taco Bell launches a brand new limited-edition menu
In a time where people are pulling back on nonessential purchases as tariff threats loom and everything feels more expensive than ever, businesses face a unique challenge. That challenge is finding a way to keep customers interested enough to buy at a price point that doesn't feel scary to them, at a time when spending money feels scary in general. Don't miss the move: Subscribe to TheStreet's free daily newsletter Any business can sling out a value menu, for instance, and it may be serviceable. But to come up with value options that actually excite loyal customers and make them want to try what's new - well, that's the kind of magic very few fast-food retailers know how to invent. Related: Taco Bell to add three popular desserts to permanent menu Taco Bell (YUM) is known for tirelessly inventing one amazing thing after another, from the classic Mexican Pizza so many fans fought so hard to bring back to newer, wilder innovations like the Cheez-It Tostada. Now it's dropping a slate of new goodies all at one time, and if you live in the right area, you may be able to try them starting today. Starting on July 16, Taco Bell debuts a completely new menu for those who live in the Indianapolis area. Called the Luxe Value Menu, this new limited-edition slate of items features five debut eats, including a Mini Taco Salad, a Chipotle Ranch Chicken Stacker, a Beefy Potato Loaded Griller, a Chips & Nacho Supreme Dip, and a dessert called Salted Caramel Churros. These five new items join already-cheap favorites on the value menu, which currently includes the Cheesy Roll Up, Spicy Potato Soft Taco, Cheesy Bean & Rice Burrito, Three-Cheese Chicken Flatbread, and the Cheesy Double Beef Burrito. Related: Taco Bell embraces something no other major chain offers The items in this test lineup each cost $3 or less, adding to Taco Bell's rotation of affordable options. As with all test menu items, if customer response is positive, they may be rolled out to all Taco Bells nationwide. If you're feeling frustrated that you don't live in Indianapolis to try this out, know that the Bell thought of that and came up with a solution to spice up your next visit. The chain also debuts a limited edition Sweet Chipotle BBQ sauce July 16, which comes as an addition to Crispy Chicken Tacos and Burritos. But since the app allows you to customize your order, you can add it to just about anything you want. In its April earnings call, Yum Brands CEO David Gibbs gave a special shout-out to Taco Bell for its standout accomplishments. "I'm incredibly proud of our teams' ability to stay nimble and deliver industry-leading results in a complex consumer environment," Gibbs said. "Our twin growth engines led the way, with Taco Bell U.S. reporting a remarkable 9% same-store sales growth and KFC International accelerating same-store sales growth while generating 7% unit growth year-over-year." Taco Bell also celebrated its second Live Mas Live event this year in Brooklyn, which it calls the "ultimate Taco Bell fan experience." The event featured live entertainment, new menu drops, and test kitchen items such as a Mexican Pizza Empanada, Salted Toffee Cream Empanada Bites, and the mini-bite-sized taco salad that's on the new Luxe Value menu. Taco Bell also live-streamed the event and invited loyal fans of the brand to attend, successfully drumming up interest and keeping the 63-year-old chain feeling as fresh as ever. Related: Taco Bell teams up for impressive celebrity collaboration The Arena Media Brands, LLC THESTREET is a registered trademark of TheStreet, Inc.
Yahoo
18-06-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Prime Day 2025 dates announced: Here's what you need to know to shop Amazon's biggest sales event
There are questions that have plagued humanity since the dawn of time. How did we get here? What happens after we go? When is Prime Day 2025? Well, at least we've got an answer to that last one: Amazon just confirmed it's happening Tuesday, July 8, through Friday, July 11. That's right folks, the two-day sale has doubled in length. We haven't been this excited since Taco Bell brought back the Mexican Pizza. That gives you less than a month to build a wish list, clear out your cart and mentally (and financially) prepare for the chaos. Whether you're chasing down slick new tech, stocking up on home essentials or impulse-buying something weird (looking at you, waffle maker with a built-in Bluetooth speaker), Prime Day (or is it Prime Week now?) is one of the best times of year to save. We've been covering Prime Day since the beginning, and we've seen it all — the actual steals, the fake deals and the 'sales' that quietly raised the price first. Our job? Help you spot the good stuff and avoid the fluff. Oh, and if patience isn't your thing? We've already rounded up some of the best tech deals that are live now — no need to wait. Here's everything you need to know heading into Prime Day 2025. Related: Amazon Prime Day 2025 deals are coming in July: The best early deals to shop now and everything else we know Yahoo's Amazon Prime Day portal Prime Day 101 is pretty much the same as Shopping 101: Seek out the biggest percentage price drops before you pull the trigger. But what are those percentages based on? There's the list price, aka MSRP ("manufacturer's suggested retail price"), which is the default price set by the manufacturer — or the Amazon seller, which in many cases is not Amazon. And because those third-party sellers have complete control over the prices shown for any product, they can artificially inflate the list price in order to make the discounted price seem more substantial. Not every seller does this, of course, but it does happen. For example, there are a lot of no-brand robot vacuum cleaners available at Amazon. A common strategy there is for the seller to assign the product a very high list price, at least for a few weeks, then sell it for considerably less — making it seem like you're saving more than you are. Meanwhile, competing models are all priced around that same "sale" price, but seem less attractive by comparison. Amazon has attempted to mitigate this issue on some products by instead listing something it calls the "typical price." Per Amazon, that is "the median price paid on Amazon in the last 90 days, [excluding] prices paid by customers for the product during a limited-time deal." It's a nice idea, but it doesn't seem to preclude some third-party sellers from pulling the same inflated discount game, even on name-brand products. Take this 16-inch Dell Inspiron laptop sold by "General Hardware Story." It has a list price from that vendor of a whopping $3,400. It was listed as "71% off" during the Memorial Day sale, when it sold for closer to $1,000. Sounds great until you investigate further. That $3,400 price is an illusion: A pair of on-screen offers — 50% off at checkout, 20% coupon — knocked it down to $1,020 just a day after the Memorial Day sale ended, meaning that supposed giant holiday discount was a mere $20! A little common sense is applicable here: If you're seeing something advertised as 70%, 80% or even 90% off, chances are good it was never really selling for that higher price to begin with. And if it was, it definitely wasn't worth it. So, given that the posted discounts don't always line up with reality, how can you determine if a deal is really worth buying? That brings us to tip #2. Knowledge is power, and there's no better knowledge you can have during Prime Day than a product's complete price history. Thankfully, a couple of free tools let you pull back the curtain and see exactly that. Why is this so important? Two reasons. First, as discussed above, you can see if that deal is really a deal or if the discounted price is the "always" price. Second, you can eliminate that sense of urgency from your shopping, because if a product has been discounted like this before, chances are good it will be again. The tools I recommend for this: CamelCamelCamel (so named for the animal's humps, which go up and down — just like prices) and Keepa. Both will show you detailed price-history charts, including the lowest and highest prices on record. Now, the caveat here is that these price trackers will capture the same dramatic price fluctuations based on those sometimes-inflated list prices noted above. But for products with more honest price fluctuations, you can still save by waiting just a few days for the discount cycle to repeat. A great example: Amazon-branded products like the Kindle, Fire TV Stick and Echo Show. Checking their price histories, I know that they go on sale with almost clockwork regularity (typically once per month). Granted, Prime Day may yield some of the year's lowest prices on those products, but often by only $5 or $10. If this isn't the best time for you to make a purchase, you can always wait for the next discount. To use these tools, you can either search for a product (or copy/paste an Amazon product link) on their respective sites, or install their desktop browser extensions, which make searches much faster and easier. Prefer to shop on your phone? Keepa has mobile apps for Android and iOS. If there's a product you've been eyeballing but don't want to have to keep checking to see if it's on sale, there's an easy, automated solution: Create a price-drop alert so you'll get notified if and when that product hits your desired amount. CamelCamelCamel and Keepa both offer this feature, a great secondary benefit to using them. Here's an example of what that looks like in the former, with Apple AirPods Pro 2 as my desired deal: Obviously, this needn't be limited to Prime Day; I use price-drop alerts all the time. As long as you're not in a rush to buy whatever it is, this is the way to make sure you get exactly the discount you want. This may come as a shock, but there are other stores out there. Best Buy, Target, Walmart and other retailers often run competing sale events during Prime Day, matching and sometimes even beating Amazon's prices. Indeed, I think we're all a little hard-wired to believe that Amazon always has the best deals, but that's not always the case. Before you pull the trigger, especially on a large purchase, it's worth taking a minute or two to do some price-comparison shopping. And if I can hop onto my little soapbox for a moment, don't forget to check out local stores as well. Especially bookstores, which can offer a browsing experience and customer service unmatched by Amazon. Some even have loyalty programs or other discounts that might get you close to Amazon pricing. I'd be remiss if I didn't note that Yahoo will be monitoring and sharing all the best Prime Day deals in all the different categories: home, health, kitchen, tech and more. We have teams of experts (I mean it, literal experts!) scouring Amazon for the latest and greatest buys. So if you haven't already, bookmark Yahoo Shopping and Yahoo Tech as your jumping-off points for Prime Day 2025. Speaking of tech, this is a good time to mention that Prime Day usually yields some of the year's lowest prices on Amazon-branded devices: Kindle e-readers, Fire TVs and tablets, Echo smart speakers and screens, Ring doorbells and so on. If any of those are on your shopping list, it's a good idea to press pause until July. The dates are now official: Amazon Prime Day 2025 runs from July 8 through July 11. My crystal ball is in storage, but it's a good bet this Prime Day might look a bit different from past ones. According to a 2024 AltIndex report, roughly 70% of all goods sold by Amazon come from China — and China is now subject to new tariffs. While things could change between now and July, it seems likely that prices will be higher on many, if not most, of these goods. As stated above, some of Prime Day's biggest discounts tend to be on Amazon-branded products. If Amazon is now paying more to import these devices, will the discounts be less than in previous years? We'll have to wait and see. Expect Prime Day to end at 11:59 p.m. Pacific Time on Friday, July 11. That's 2:59 a.m. ET on Saturday, July 12. Update June 17, 2025: We updated the story with the confirmed Prime Day dates, and a first set of early deals. Update May 27, 2025: We expanded the List Price tip to include a second example, and provide more context on how Amazon's "typical price" listing works.
NDTV
06-05-2025
- Entertainment
- NDTV
Selena Gomez And Benny Blanco Want Their Partner's Cooking In Their "Last Meal"
Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco are the 'It' couple of Hollywood. The singer, actress confirmed her relationship with the record producer in December 2023. Since then, they have been leaving fans gushing with their adorable posts on social media. Besides their undeniable chemistry, Selena and Benny's shared love for food has become a charming highlight of their relationship. Now, the pair has spilled the beans on their 'last meal' preferences, and unsurprisingly, it includes their partner's signature dishes, reported People Magazine. On April 30, Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco appeared on an episode of the Table Manners with Jessie and Lennie Ware podcast. During the conversation, Benny revealed that his 'last supper' meal would be corn casserole, a type of sweet cornbread, made by his ladylove. 'We're big on casserole," Gomez said. "It's delicious and doesn't have the same density [as corn bread ], it's much looser,' admitted Benny. When Benny Blanco shared that he grew up eating a lot of corn in his childhood, Selena Gomez echoed a similar sentiment. She said, 'I love [it] because you can make it a Mexican street with all of [the corn]. [That's] how I grew up.' When Benny Blanco was asked to name his fiancée's last meal, he selected one of his home-cooked dishes - steak. Explaining the preparation process, Benny said, 'She wants my steak, specifically. I do like a ribeye, and then I usually smoke it low for a long time, and then I sear it at the end. I smoke it in a smoker for like, an hour.' The outcome is an appetising 'medium smoke' and an 'almost barbecue like' steak. The other items that Selena Gomez would want on her final meal menu were her grandmother's rice and tamale and her Nana's chicken and dumplings, including salmon sushi topped with sesame seeds and dipped in soy, Mexican Pizza from Taco Bell, Coke slushie and nachos served with pickled jalapenos. After Benny Blanco finished reciting Selena Gomez's favourite bites, the Only Murders in the Building actress chimed in, 'The only thing he missed is maybe Benihana's fried rice.'
Miami Herald
28-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Miami Herald
KFC is bringing back a much-beloved customer favorite
Legacy fast-food chains have discovered a powerful way to reengage longtime customers, and it's as simple as bringing back something that's been missing from their menus for a long time. Perhaps one of the most successful examples of this was Taco Bell taking the Mexican Pizza off its menu in September 2020, citing packaging expenses as the reason. This led to a customer uproar, and a little under two years later, Taco Bell brought the famed pizza back (in the exact same packaging, mind you) with a big campaign backed by Doja Cat. Don't miss the move: SIGN UP for TheStreet's FREE Daily newsletter Other chains saw all this go down and realized that they could benefit hugely from reintroducing old menu items customer miss. Taco Bell made a theme out of it when it introduced its "Decades" menu in October 2024, bringing back menu items from different decades including the Tostada, the Meximelt, the Gordita Supreme, and the Green Sauce Burrito. It was a limited-time promotion, but it was a huge hit for the brand, playing on the nostalgia of loyal customers to the tune of success. Now KFC (YUM) has decided to borrow a page from the Taco Bell playbook with hopes it will drum up success for its spring menu. After five years of customers asking KFC to bring it back to the menu, the company has finally confirmed that Chicken & Waffles is making a triumphant return. You can try it in three ways: A Tenders & Waffle box, which comes with three Original Recipe tenders, waffle, and syrup for $7; a Two-Piece Fried Chicken & Waffle box, which comes with KFC Original Recipe fried chicken, waffle, and syrup; and a Chicken & Waffles Fan Favorite Box, which comes with four pieces of Original Recipe fried chicken, 12 nuggets, four waffles, and four syrups and sauces. Along with the Chicken & Waffles comeback, KFC will offer a dessert item called Strawberry & Crème Poppers, which wrap a strawberry and creme filling inside a buttery, flaky crust. "Chicken & Waffles hasn't been on our menu in over five years, but it's one of those iconic combos our fans never stopped asking for," a KFC spokesperson said to Food & Wine. "We've been listening, and bringing it back felt like the right kind of reunion of familiarity and indulgence, all without sacrificing value." While KFC did see moderate growth in 2024 with a 3% rise in system sales, Yum Brands wants to achieve much more. In December 2024, it launched its first-ever KFC concept restaurant, Saucy, which highlights consumer customization with a selection of 11 dipping sauces to choose from, paired with chicken tenders. It also offers a variety of other menu items unavailable at KFC, including a Spicy Queso Crunch sandwich and a Hot Honey Watermelon Refresher. Saucy currently has only one physical location in Orlando, Fla., but KFC says to expect more coming soon. As Saucy finds its footing, KFC is focusing on new collaborations, such as one with Mike's Hot Honey, as well as a big tech rollout in over 1,000 locations featuring self-ordering kiosks. These are everywhere in the fast-food world now and save precious time for a chain's employees, who can focus on fulfilling orders and customer service instead of being stuck behind the register taking orders. Related: Historic restaurant unexpectedly closes its doors The Arena Media Brands, LLC THESTREET is a registered trademark of TheStreet, Inc.
