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Vice President Ana Helena Chacón thinks that Costa Rica should be as well known for its cuisine as it is for its beaches and sloths. But will foodies add Costa Rica to a Latin American circuit alongside other culinary destinations like Mexico and Peru?

Last Saturday, the restaurant chain Bagelmen’s closed all of its locations in Costa Rica, laying off 110 employees.

Despite reports of slow growth in Costa Rica’s business sector, those operating under the franchising regime grew by 12.7 percent, according to the National Franchise Center, part of the Costa Rican Chamber of Commerce.

NEW YORK – Rock icon Neil Young has pledged to stop drinking at Starbucks over an industry challenge to laws on genetically modified crops, but the coffee giant says the charges are false.

Pop superstar Alanis Morissette teamed up with Costa Rican percussionist and Latin Grammy winner Carlos ‘Tapado" Vargas to release over the weekend the song “The Morning,” along with an accompanying video recorded for the upcoming documentary “A Small Section of the World,” scheduled to premiere at DOC NYC Festival on Nov. 14 before its release in theaters in December.

Searching for the Mule Bridge over the Río Grande was almost as difficult as trekking through the nature preserve to get there - but finding an important part of Costa Rican history is worth the effort.

The meeting aims to promote franchising business models both locally and internationally, according to Costa Rica's Chamber of Commerce.

A group of 14 entrepreneurs from Germany arrived in Costa Rica over the weekend to evaluate investment opportunities in the country, the Foreign Ministry said on Monday.

Seattle-based coffee chain Starbucks will open its first store in eastern San José in March, the company’s fourth in Costa Rica.

The coffee shop will be located in a new business sector of Escazú.