• Six-time world boxing champion Julio Cesar Chavez is opening a boxing-themed restaurant and entertainment complex in Phoenix, Arizona. [NRN]
• The L.A. Kings will start their annual food drive at tonight’s game, collecting non-perishable food items and money at the door. [Daily News]
• The Bay Area has instituted mandatory food scrap recycling. [L.A. Times/L.A. at Home]
• A Monterey-based tomato-processing executive has plead guilty for his participation in a conspiracy (that included Kraft and Frito-Lay) to drive up food prices. [AP]
• Corner Bakery Cafe plans 11 new stores in San Diego in the next seven years. [Reuters]
• After a recession-fueled slump, Whole Foods is finally seeing sales pick up. [WSJ]
