• Red Robin is launching a fast-casual burger chain, Red Robin Burger Works, this month. Coming soon to “non-traditional locations like airports, military bases, college campuses, food courts and stadiums” near you! [NRN]
• A Florida inmate is fed up with his prison’s soy-laced diet, arguing that too much soy protein endangers the body and constitutes a form of cruelty. Many significant others of vegans would surely agree. [Orlando Sentinal]
• Anthony Bourdain’s former Brasserie Les Halles is the first restaurant in the city to employ a machine that turns food waste into topsoil. They also have another device that pulverizes glass bottles. Cool. [Crain’s]
• The CEO of McDonald’s, Jim Skinner, thinks he knows how to fix the economy; of course, his first priority would be cutting business taxes. [Telegraph UK]
• In EU countries, pollen will now have to be labeled as an ingredient in honey, after a German beekeeper found some genetically modified Bavarian pollen in his honey. [Daily Mail UK]