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Adam Chandler

Jimmy Buffett, Cleveland, and the Promise of Utopia

Plus finding common ground with a stranger in El Paso

5 min readMar 28, 2022

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Jimmy Buffett, Cleveland, and the Promise of Utopia

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Oatly’s Upcoming $10 Billion IPO Was 20 Years in the Making

With a Super Bowl ad, a massive Starbucks deal, and a public offering on the way, Oatly is suddenly everywhere. Just don’t call it milk.

5 min readApr 6, 2021

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Searching for Social Good in an Egg McMuffin

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4 min readApr 1, 2021

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How Taco Bell Secretly Built a Huge Vegan Cult Following

4 min readMar 24, 2021

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How a Grief Alarm Kept Me in Order

A year of staying to stay human.

3 min readMar 11, 2021

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The Real Reason Every Chain Is Suddenly Introducing a Fish Sandwich

From the McDonald’s Filet-O-Fish to the new Popeyes Cajun Flounder, the battle of the fish has become a spring tradition

4 min readMar 9, 2021

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The Bonkers Story Behind NYC’s First Red Light District

And why America almost lost to the British because of it

2 min readFeb 16, 2021

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How a Shadow Army of Ghost Kitchens Took Over America’s Restaurants

Inside the brave new world of data-driven, search-optimized virtual restaurants that exist only on DoorDash and GrubHub

12 min readFeb 10, 2021

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How a Shadow Army of Ghost Kitchens Took Over America’s Restaurants

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It Was This Close to Being So Much Worse

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3 min readJan 11, 2021

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7-Eleven Wants Americans to Love It as Much as the Japanese Do

The home of the Slurpee is now being supercharged by the pandemic

14 min readJan 6, 2021

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Adam Chandler

Adam Chandler

Journalist. Author of Drive-Thru Dreams. The Atlantic alum. Work in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Texas Monthly, and elsewhere.

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