• Just in case you were running out of lunch options: Panera launches its flagship downtown Boston store today in the Back Bay. [Herald]
• Subway is trying to get all fancy, launching the upscale Subway Cafe. But will the stores still have that distinctive baked-bread smell? [NRN]
• The USDA is trying to encourage the use of numerical ear tags rather than brands for identifying cattle. Ranchers, naturally, are resisting the change, because they wouldn’t be the independent cowboy types if they didn’t. [WSJ]
• What is it with people behaving badly in restaurants these days? A Georgia politician is accused of dumping food, water and coffee on another pol at a Waffle House. [Atlanta Journal-Constitution]
• Honk if you’re hungry: In Uganda, protesters were doing just that as demonstrators in Kampala made noise last night over high food prices. [NASDAQ]
