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In May I made a commitment to permanently change my workout and eating habits after finding out I was suffering from high blood pressure. My first step was to higher a personal trainer, Nicole Leisen, owner of Nicole Leisen Personal Training.

Since then, some of you saw the photos of me practicing my TRX moves in Washington Park, sometimes even catching me in person: Your thumbs ups and cheers of encouragement have been much appreciated.

I've had executives reach out to me and share stories like…

Milwaukee real estate developer Kalan Haywood will diversify into the restaurant business by launching a carryout fish chain in Milwaukee that pays homage to the former Redd’s Snapper.

The food industry has seen a massive shift in recent years, as consumers become more aware of ingredients and their effects on health. The beauty industry is seeing a similar trend.

That’s why former lobbyist Sheena Franklin created Well-Kept Beauty, to better inform customers about the cosmetics industry and its products.

What is Well-Kept Beauty, exactly? A mobile app for all things cosmetics. Users search for the products they use and add them to their profiles. The system tracks things like…

Nashville-based restaurant Back Yard Burgers has a new CEO.

Scott Shotter, previously the vice president of operations at Moe's Southwest Grill, is taking over the burger chain, which today operates 51 locations in 11 states. According to a news release, Shotter's nine-year tenure at Moe's included the restaurant's expansion from 200 location to more than 700.

Shotter was selected by North Carolina-based Axum Capital Partners, Back Yard Burgers' private-equity owner. Axum, formed by former Carolina…

FreshDirect is readying a 400,000-square-foot facility in the South Bronx.

The hope is that the new warehouse will allow the New York-based food delivery company to double its business.

That's according to chief executive officer Jason Ackerman, who addressed the complicated New York market in an interview with Bloomberg News.

Fresh Direct, which charges $6 to $7 for a typical delivery, will probably never be cheaper than similar services offered by Amazon.com Inc. or Walmart Inc.'s Jet.com.

The…

Black Sheep's new menu items has a variety of dishes, including a take on a banh mi, a nostalgic Monday-special grilled cheese bologna and more.

Some of the items, like the mushroom toast and the banh mi, feature locally sourced ingredients. The tomato pie was on the brunch menu previously and will now be available at lunch. The BLT has been changed up to include beefsteak tomatoes.

Chef Waylon Rivers said the banh mi is his new favorite lunch item.

“I like the other one we used to do, the…

New Jersey regulators received five additional applications from gambling companies seeking to offer sports betting before football season starts in September, the Associated Press reported.

David Rebuck, director of the state Division of Gaming Enforcement, told the AP that the agency received two applications from casinos and three from mobile sports betting operations but did not identify them. The AP confirmed two of the applicants who filed ahead of Monday’s deadline to obtain a license in…

In a way, the $13 million donation that Pat Reser made to the Beaverton Arts Foundation this morning for a new art center can be traced back more than six decades.

That’s when Reser and her then husband, Al Reser, the longtime president of Reser’s Fine Foods, began planning their life together as newlyweds. They decided back then that they would always give back to the communities in which they lived and worked.

“That was a seed we began back in 1956 or 1957,” Pat Reser said.

In the…

National Ice Cream Day may have passed, but you can still get free ice cream this week in Boston thanks to Friendly’s and Ben & Jerry’s.

On Wednesday, Friendly’s will host a pop-up shop at the Rings Fountain on the Rose Kennedy Greenway, where customers can choose between the Original Fudge Sundae Cup or the Reese’s Pieces Sundae Cup. The pop-up will be open from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. to celebrate both National Ice Cream Month and the Massachusetts-based restaurant's 83rd birthday.

On Thursday,…