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Restaurateurs Predict a Good Spring; Dim Sum Gets Its Props

• Duxbury’s cafeteria workers could lose their health insurance. [Globe]

• Increased traffic and lowered supply costs are leading restaurateurs to predict a good spring. [WSJ]

• Once considered minor league for chefs, dim sum is winning increased respect. [WSJ]

• The popularity of competitive eating has paradoxically risen at the same time as concerns about obesity. [Salon]

Top Chef contestant Spike Mendelsohn wants to expand his D.C. Good Stuff Eatery internationally. [Bloomberg]

• Jamie Oliver plans to take a petition calling for better food in America’s schools to the White House. [NYDN]

Restaurateurs Predict a Good Spring; Dim Sum Gets Its Props