• As corporate layoffs continue, enrollment at local bartending schools is on the rise. [NYDN]
• OpenTable now has an iPhone app allowing users to check seating availability in real time, make reservations, and get directions to the restaurant. [Eater]
• Cost-saving tip: Church’s Chicken is looking to filter its shortening in order to stretch the life of a frying batch to fourteen days from ten. Also coming to the chain: paper French-fry packets and smaller biscuits. [WSJ]
• File under “inevitable”: Bedford Avenue now has a Pinkberry knockoff. [Gowanus Lounge]
