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Cracker Barrel is selling restaurant properties and exiting its Maple Street Biscuit Company business as it works to cut debt and improve profits. The Southern country-themed chain said Monday it sold the Maple Street brand and assets tied to 35 locations to Biscuit Belly LLC. Cracker Barrel will close the remaining 16 Maple Street restaurants. In a separate move, Cracker Barrel also completed a sale-leaseback deal involving 26 company-owned locations, generating roughly $77 million in net proceeds. The company plans to use the money to pay down debt while continuing to operate the restaurants by leasing the properties from the…

Netflix has been investing more and more in Korean content over time, and there’s a good reason for that. Well past Squid Game, extremely high-quality content has emerged from the country to land as hits, critically, viewership-wise or both. Now, that’s happened again with a new 100% Rotten Tomatoes-scored show.The…

Drivers who’ve been blinded by the lights, it’s not just your imagination. There are cars on the road with headlights that are so bright they’re illegal. Two years after Tesla informed the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration that low-beam headlights on some Tesla EVs exceed brightness limits, the company’s move…

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ToplineBillionaire Leon Black claimed he socialized with Jeffrey Epstein because of his many high-powered connections—including Elon Musk—but never considered him a friend, according to a transcript released Friday of the billionaire’s interview with the House Oversight Committee, despite once signing a birthday card to him “Love and Kisses.”Key FactsBlack sat…

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