• Betty Loren-Maltese, the disgraced former town president of Cicero, began training for a hostess position at Salerno’s Pizza and Pasta in Oak Park. [Trib]
• Poppy seeds are ultimately responsible for a positive drug test on a former Chicago cop. [WGN-TV]
• Popeye’s CEO Cheryl Bachelder on federally-mandated calorie counts: “They are trying to tell us what to eat and how much. That’s just un-American.” [Atlanta Journal-Constitution]
• The White House is pressuring Japan to resume imports of U.S. beef, halted because of mad cow scares in 2006. [NYT]
• Domino’s new ad campaign specifically targets three men who haven’t tried the chain’s new pizza. [Slice]
• Elle publisher Carol Smith is the new vice president and publishing director for Bon Appétit. [Crain’s]
• Pizza Hut’s “You don’t have to settle” ad campaign heads a list of the top ten restaurant commercials of the first quarter of 2010. [NRN]