FYI: Pizza For Breakfast
• Opening a small restaurant in LA and dealing with the permit process sounds pretty nightmarish. [Los Angeles Times]
• Pizza for breakfast? We don't mean last night's leftovers; check out this polenta, spinach and pancetta pie that makes a good first meal of the day. [New York Times]
• Now Texas is considering a statewide indoor smoking ban. The idea is to simplify the rule for everyone; currently, a number of cities and counties have bans while others don't. [MSNBC]
• A federal appellate court ruled against the New York State Restaurant Association's challenge to the law requiring chain restaurants to list calorie counts. [New York Times]
• Forward Foods, which makes Detour energy bars, has filed for bankruptcy protection. The company had to recall all foods made with peanuts from salmonella-tainted Peanut Corporation of America; unfortunately, those energy bars accounted for 75 percent of the company's sales. [Bloomberg]
