Diners are feeling more entitled than ever, and aren’t afraid to voice their displeasure. What’s a restaurant to do?

Things can get tense at a restaurant when expectations aren’t met. But diners should remember these five simple rules.

The message by President and Michelle Obama to college graduates is for everyone: Success begins at home, and that means helping to create and be part of strong families.

The shooting of a 13-year-old in January galvanized a four-month sting operation in Boston that culminated on Tuesday.

The restaurant’s energy can lead to good food, but the elements that promise to make a dish interesting are often too sparse.

Recipe for one-ingredient banana ice cream

ChopChop, a Watertown-based quarterly children’s cooking magazine, surprised the food world by winning the James Beard award for publication of the year.

If you’re looking for something different, we offer burgers made with ground turkey, salmon, or beets. Warm the buns, add dill mayo, and light the grill.

Use only dark meat, which has more fat and flavor than breast meat, and add Worcestershire, soy sauce, parsley, and an egg to keep things moist.

Recipe for dill mayonnaise

After a bit of trial and error, we created a vegetarian burger with beets, portobello mushrooms, white beans, and cooked brown rice that has a satisfying taste and texture.

The voluminous menu of American Chinese and Sichuan favorites — created by executive chef Paul Mustacchio — reflects ambitious thinking.

At Bee’s Knees Supply Co. you can choose from almost 300 farmstead cheeses, dairy products, butcher-shop meats, and pastries.

Boston charter schools outperform other public schools on three popular barometers of achievement — the MCAS, the SAT, and the Advanced Placement exams — but tend to have lower four-year graduation rates, according to a study being released Wednesday.

The biggest bounce in achievement occurred on the SAT. Charter school students on average scored 100 points higher than their peers in other public schools, according to the study, which was prepared by the School Effectiveness and Inequality Initiative at MIT.

The findings are expected to fuel a push to abolish a state-imposed cap on the number of charter schools. The study was commissioned by two philanthropic organizations that support efforts to expand charter schools, the Boston Foundation and NewSchools Venture Fund, headquartered in Oakland, Calif.

Ice cream maker Jeni Britton Bauer first sold her frozen treats with inventive flavors 15 years ago at a marketplace in Columbus, Ohio.