happy hour

Friday, May 6, is the official beginning of summer -- at least from a Starbucks' customer's perspective. That's because it's the first day of a ten-day celebration of the Frappuccino. "Frappuccino Happy Hours" will run from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. local time in participating Starbucks stores, during...

Today, Sept. 29, 2010, is "national happy hour," a Budweiser PR stunt that involves giving away 500,000 free beers - and getting mad publicity - at bars across the country. Problem is, due to state laws, Bud cannot say which bars will be giving away free 6 and 12 ounce samples, or so claims Bud's...

When the news broke earlier this month that the National Bureau of Economic Research proclaimed the recession ended in June 2009, it unleashed a guffaw that could be heard from coast-to-coast. Truth is, those guys really don't have a clue. Sorry dudes, but we here at WalletPop are on the front...

Facing its steepest revenue decline in 28 years, the restaurant industry has decided to appeal to its customers' baser instincts. Offering more and cheaper drink specials, extended happy hours, and all-you-can-drink promotions, eateries from Chili's to Morton's are moving to pull in customers with...

Running low on cash to fill your growling stomach and guzzling gas tank? Eat dinner during commute hour -- especially if you're on a roadtrip or driving quite a distance for vacation sight-seeing. The late-afternoon to early-evening traffic crunch coincides with happy hour, which is when some...

When I was in academia, my department's Christmas parties were an annual festival of drinking, dancing and fun. There was the feminist theorist whose flailing elbows and knees made her a force to be reckoned with on the dance floor, the conservative lit professor who would hit the grad students up...