• Remember that one time it was, like, impossible to get your check, and you waited and waited and were tempted for the teensiest second to dine and dash, just to get out of there? Well, the Post tracked down a bunch of jerks who actually do skip out on checks. [NYP]
• In Missouri, a man with a shotgun showed up at a McDonald’s just after closing and demanded food for his pregnant wife. Cough, gun control, cough. [Consumerist]
• Almond milk is more popular than ever in supermarkets, and two primary brands, Almond Breeze and Silk Pure Almond, are duking it out over market shares. What do they put in that stuff, anyway? [WSJ]
• Call it the case of the curious breakfast food: A Florida professor left an airplane in handcuffs after fellow passengers reported a “suspicious package,” which turned out to contain, among other normal things, a bagel and cream cheese and a hat. [NBC Miami]
• Restaurant Impossible, an upcoming Food Network show, is currently casting “passionate restaurateurs who have fallen on hard times.” [AZ Daily Sun]
• Or people could just stick it out: Rosy predictions from research firm Technomic predict 2011 restaurant sales will be the best since 2008. [NRN]
• A chocolatier in Portland, Oregon, has revived a rare variety of cacao bean thought to have vanished a century ago. [Oregon Live]
