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El Torito Owners File For Bankruptcy Protection; How to Pack Lunch with Love and For Sport

• RM Restaurant Holding, the Cypress-based company that owns Acapulco, El Torito, and Chevy’s Fresh Mex, is applying for bankruptcy protection. It appears higher unemployment has kept people away from eating crappy Mexican food, damaging their bottom line. [LAT]

• Lunchbox-packing has become a competitive sport; if you don’t leave your kid a loving note, you’re a huge jerk. [WSJ]

• The owner of Downtown L.A.’s authentic Scandinavian bakery Hygge shares his frustration that nobody in the U.S. knows what a “real” danish is supposed to look like. [Money Watch]

• Meet Tal Shoshan, the executive chef at Five Star Gourmet Foods, who is putting farmers market produce on the LAUSD menu to the tune of ten-million dollars a year. [Contra Costa Times]

• Don’t worry, Eva Longoria’s troubles are nearly over: Landry’s (which owns Chart House) will buy her bankrupt Las Vegas restaurant Beso. [NRN]

• Now that San Francisco won that little cocktail showdown, it is suddenly giving great credence to the opinions of Sunset Magazine, only weeks after complaining about them. [SF Gate]

• Commodity prices have been up, up, up, but it seems the price of flour and chocolate might finally fall. Bakers rejoice! [USAT]

• As fancy cheeses have come of age, “the affineur has become the cheese world’s version of the mixologist”; some don’t buy that affinage (aging) is important, however. [NYT]

El Torito Owners File For Bankruptcy Protection; How to Pack Lunch with Love and