• Plenty of New Yorkers are stuck in lunch ruts, including Wendy Williams who eats a roast-beef-and-Swiss-cheese wrap from D’Agostino every Thursday. [NYP]
• Opening a restaurant in a hotel or condo development is one way for a young chef to bypass many of the traditional financing issues. [Time]
• Gordon Ramsay gave up at mile twenty of the London Marathon. [Telegraph UK]
• Employees Only will sell a line of artisanal cocktail mixers via FreshDirect. [Fork in the Road/VV]
• Vietnamese restaurants serving modified Cajun cuisine are on the rise throughout the South and in California. [NYT]
• Order with an iPad at the Qsine restaurants on Celebrity Eclipse cruise ships. [Travolution UK via Feast]
• There are a few hundred more restaurants in New Orleans now than there were before Hurricane Katrina. [NYT]