• Richard Melman, the founder and chairman of Lettuce Entertain You, will receive the 2010 Momentum Award from the Chicagoland Entrepreneurial Center. [Crain’s]
• More and more Americans are exploring gluten-free diets, partly because of the influence of celebrities. [USA Today]
• The Food & Drug Administration will hold hearings on genetically modified salmon this week. [ABC]
• British animal rights activists are angry about the country’s increasing use of halal meat, which, they say, is slaughtered in a way that causes needless pain. [NYP]
• A judge ruled Friday that Kid Rock and his entourage must pay $40,000 in damages from a 2007 fight at Waffle House. [NYP]
• A Cincinnati high school recently added baby carrots to its vending machines. [NYDN]
• Josh Ozersky thinks Five Guys is the most overrated burger in America. [Esquire]
