• It’s happening: Restaurant prices have edged up 1 percent and are expected to show a total increase of 3 to 4 percent by year’s end. [USAT]
• Surprisingly, that Panera pay-what-you-want café in Missouri seems to be working. [WP]
• Proposing on one knee with a song about how you met your girlfriend at The Sherman Oaks Galleria’s Cinnabon may sound like a good idea on paper, but this guy kinda just got rejected in front of the entire food court. [Daily Mail UK]
• Urban farmers fear not: A company named Dare 2 Dream Farms will deliver chickens to the citizens of L.A. and San Francisco. [SF Gate]
• Don’t be surprised when your hotel starts keeping bees on its roof. It’s just to aid their cocktail program. [USA Today]
• Locavore boozers have more and more options as craft distilleries open: nationwide, the rate’s been about one per month over the past year. [USAT]
• The relatively new recipe search engine Foodily just got more relevant by letting cooks search for nutritional qualities like “low fat” and providing calorie comparisons. [Mashable]
