• Dole Food Company, the fruit production giant that has been privately held since 2003, has filed for an IPO with the hopes of raising $500 million to pay down debts. [Reuters]
• Megan Fox starts small backlash by filming a fake profanity-laced PSA that suggests kids kill and eat every boy at their high school if they are bullied. [Popeater]
• The Currywurst Museum, devoted to the German sausage, has opened in Berlin. [Reuters]
• Sales of rare bottles of whiskey are on the rise. [WSJ]
• Restaurants are turning to extreme promotional gimmicks to get bodies in the door, thanks to the “magnitude of weakness” in the chain restaurant sector. [MarketWatch]
• It’s still unclear whether or not the economic recovery will boost restaurant stocks. [WSJ]