• The bulk of Lindsay Lohan’s 480 community service hours will likely be spent serving food at the Downtown Women’s Center. [On The Red Carpet]
• Yum Brands Inc., which owns KFC, Taco Bell, and Pizza Hut, is buying a major share of China’s Little Sheep Mongolian hot pot restaurants. Let’s see Das Racist try to work that into a song. [Reuters]
• Though it’s not particularly known for selling food, Starbucks is now the No. 3 most widespread U.S. restaurant chain. [USAT]
• Thousands of volunteers are helping the New York Public Library transcribe its collection of 10,000 vintage menus, and many say the work makes them hungry. Now they know how we feel all day! [Diner’s Journal/NYT]
• Chain restaurants are trying to keep increasing food prices from burning up their profits. [Reuters]
• It’s no longer enough to offer-farm-to-table cooking, now a restaurant must compost to stay trendy, and luckily there are a number of companies that can help. [MSNBC]
• Well, there goes any fun you might’ve been able to eke out of a business trip to Cleveland: The city council there has banned smoking on city properties as well as trans fats. [Fox 8]
• Today in news that nobody but Walgreens and Wegmans cares about: The chains were fighting over the use of a “W” logo, and Walgreens won. [In Charge/WSJ]
