Grub Street

Various Equinox gyms (the ones with the Juice Generation bars) are abuzz with their newest promotion, "Cooler Cleanse" — a juice-for-a-day program that resets the body after 24 hours. This quick fix — which is selling like hotcakes, but you know, not exactly — is the latest juice-bar trend the gym has embraced in order to meet the needs of its juice-obsessed clientele. Last week, Juice Generation also announced an exclusive with pitaya, a rare fruit similar to dragonfruit, sourced from eighteen organic farms in Nicaragua "that only employ single mothers."

Related: Pressing Matters: Are Juice Bars Putting the Squeeze on Customers?

Restaurants like Hooters, but not necessarily Hooters, are booming, says the Associated Press: "The nation's top three 'breastaurant' chains behind Hooters each had sales growth of 30 percent or more last year." There's even a uniform shop devoted to the industry's bodacious tatas. [Slate]

In more wiener troubles, Brooklyn Heights residents had a disproportionate reaction to a new hot-dog vendor perched on Montague Street, calling him "disgusting" and "a slob," and ultimately scaring him away for good. Commenters on the Brooklyn Heights Blog — cousins of the Park Slope ice-cream killers — are still acting like assholes enraged, crying, “Disgusting food, served by disgusting people to disgusting people.” [NYP]

Anyone can post a food-related video on YouTube, but a few select personalities have been chosen to star in stand-out shows on the new channel, HUNGRY, launching this Wednesday. Bruce Seidel, the Food Network and Cooking Channel veteran, is the mastermind behind the channel, which is probably a good sign. Less reassuring? "Casserole Queens" and "Brothers Green." [Huffington Post]

Hannah Hornvath to Café Grumpy is not quite Carrie Bradshaw to Magnolia Bakery ... but there's definitely buzz around the Girls hangs like Grumpy, Jane Hotel, Babycakes NYC, and Weather Up, and a Greenpoint-based tour — without accidental crack and golden showers — could even be in the works. [NYT]

Late in the day Friday, Eater got word that big changes were happening at Griffou (the restaurant dropped the "Hotel" part a while back, you'll recall). Co-owner Johnny Swet confirmed to the blog that he and the other owners have parted ways with the establishment (they're working on a new project, he said), and some unnamed other parties have taken over. A source of Grub Street's tells us that the restaurant was so behind on bills and taxes that the investors finally voted to kick out the ownership, which sounds plausible given the chef shuffles and other upsets Griffou has seen over the past year or so. [Eater NY, Grub Street]

We hadn't even gotten around to checking out the tasting menu Phillip Kirschen-Clark was slinging down at Demi Monde, and now comes word the chef has left the project. Less than a year ago, we told you Kirschen-Clark had parted ways with the now shuttered Vandaag, giving him a track record that's starting to resemble that of another talented, yet rootless stove-hopper, Ryan Skeen. Here's hoping both these guys find somewhere it all lines up.