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From A Hamburger Today

Having been to Stacks, I'm pretty sure Shake Shack is a bagillion percent improvement. [Photograph: Robyn Lee]

Paramus, New Jersey, is racking up the fast-casual burger choices with Smashburger, Bobby's Burger Palace, Steak 'n Shake Signature, Bucu, and soon, Shake Shack. Shake Shack is opening it's first New Jersey location in Paramus this fall, reports NorthJersey.com. It'll be located at 479 Route 17 South (map), formerly the home of the pancake-centric restaurant Stacks.

About the author: Robyn Lee is the editor of A Hamburger Today and takes many of the photos for Serious Eats. She'll also doodle cute stuff when necessary. Read more from Robyn at her personal food blog, The Girl Who Ate Everything.

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There's major drama in France over which food establishments can officially call themselves "restaurants." It turns out that American fantasies of French food are filled with bullshit: Tons of "classic" dishes are made in a suburban factory, frozen, microwaved weeks later, and then — voilà! — presented as expensive, gourmet entrées. The National Union of Hotel, Restaurant and Cafe Operators conducted a survey and found that one third of French restaurants acknowledged serving frozen food, which, scarily, means the actual number of restaurants that do this is higher.

The French National Assembly has approved an idea to make restaurants that cook their own food slap a "house-made" ("fait-maison") logo on their menus, which would make establishments that abstain look shady. But many think that doesn't go far enough.

Some lawmakers (and chefs like Alain Ducasse) are suggesting that the country limit the use of the title "artisan restaurant" or, more simply, "restaurant" to 20,000 out of 150,000 establishments. Others think that all of these special designations are confusing and put smaller, poorer restaurant owners at a disadvantage. Ready-made meals at restaurants are offensive, but frozen vegetables are less so. What constitutes as "homemade" these days, anyways? Are we all stuck in Sandra Lee's semi-homemade world?

French restaurants acknowledge serving factory-frozen food [WP]

Earlier: Today France Debated Which Restaurants Can Call Themselves Themselves ‘Restaurants’

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Developer Overkill Software has added stealth mechanics to Payday 2, happy news for those who favor sneaking over bursting in, guns blazing. Keep those guns ready, though - we've seen enough heist movies to know that they all inevitably devolve into a shootout.

Payday 2 dev diary treads softly, carries a big gun originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 09 Jul 2013 14:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Garmin has officially announced the HUD, a portable heads-up display unit for vehicles that can receive navigation instructions from a smartphone and display them on any car's windshield. Paired with a transparent film that sticks to the window or a dedicated reflector lens, the HUD is designed to make sure drivers keep their eyes on the road instead of looking at various screens for navigation purposes.

The HUD pairs over Bluetooth with Garmin's StreetPilot or Navigon apps for smartphones, and it can display turn arrows, distance to the next turn, current speed and speed limit, as well as estimated time of arrival. It also offers speed limit alerts, traffic delays, and locations of cameras, and guides drivers into the correct lanes...

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Gentlemen, this is how clothes should fit.

A suit jacket's length -- like a good lawyer -- should cover your ass.

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It's a question we've all asked ourselves at some point: What would it be like to be a Roomba? Now we finally have an answer thanks to Stolidus Simulations' Robot Vacuum Simulator 2013. "The simulator puts you in the shoes of a robot vacuum cleaner," the official site explains, "and sends you on a journey through an apartment cleaning up the dust of man." And that journey plays exactly how you'd imagine, as you slowly (so slowly) make your way through a house, sucking up dust bunnies under chairs and couches while cool jazz plays in the background. There's even a two-player mode so that you can suck with friends.

Surprisingly, the game is actually a sequel: Robot Vacuum Simulator 2012 launched last year, but the 2013 edition takes the...

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Apple has hired Paul Deneve, the now former CEO of fashion house Yves Saint Laurent. His new position has not yet been defined, but, in a statement provided to Bloomberg, the company said he will work on "special projects" as a VP reporting straight to CEO Tim Cook.

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