• Condé Nast will license its magazine names for restaurants abroad. [WSJ]
• It’s unclear what will happen to Condé Nast’s Frank Gehry–designed cafeteria if the company completes its planned move to One World Trade Center. [WSJ]
• Neither Barack nor Michelle Obama cares for beets. [LHJ via Eater National]
• Momofuku sommelier Christina Turley is leaving the company to work at her family winery in Napa. [Feast]
• Kelis is working on a cookbook. [T Magazine]
• Workers protested outside of Del Posto yesterday, charging everything from sexual harassment to labor violations. [WSJ]
• As the government prepares to update federal nutrition guidelines, it appears it will not reverse its reliance on carbohydrates. [NYP]
• The city’s community gardeners are pushing the City Council to enact tougher rules to protect New York’s 300 community gardens. [WSJ]
• Wendy’s will expand to Russia early next year. [Reuters]
• A coffee vendor is suing the Queens Hospital Center for refusing to allow him to set up his cart outside, charging that he was booted to boost business at a coffee shop inside the hospital. [NYP]
• Three former workers at wholesale sandwich-maker Bimmy’s are suing the company, alleging wage violations [Crain’s]