• The Counter’s first and only store in Utah closes after one year. [SaltLakeTribune]
• Ortega 120 and Samba in Redondo Beach will add live entertainment. [TheBeachReporter]
• The National Restaurant Association spent $840,000 the second quarter to lobby on food issues. [Google/AP]
• The number of hungry people worldwide soared to 1.02 billion this year. [NYT]
• Jones Hollywood will celebrate its fifteenth birthday on November 3rd with a party and special prices. [PRWeb]
• McDonald’s, Burger King, and Friendly’s were all named as defendants in a class action suit charging that the chains sold carcinogenic chicken without a warning. [Bloomberg]
• McDonald’s profits rose 5.9 percent in the past quarter. [WSJ]
• UCI researchers discovered that a mold that grows on some grain products causes liver cancer. [ChinaView]