Restaurants Hire Inspection Consultants; Pizza Guy Fights Off Robbers, Delivers Pies

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Star tenor Placido Domingo, who four weeks ago had colon cancer surgery, is recovering nicely and readying for the opening of his new restaurant, Zengo, which he's a partner in with Richard Sandoval.
[AP]

An East Harlem pizza-delivery guy fought off two gun-toting robbers and still managed to deliver the pies he was carrying.
[NY Post]

Restaurant report cards are sure to give a boost to the cottage industry of health inspection consulting: restaurants hire consultants to help them pass DOH inspections.
[NY Times]

Now that in-flight complimentary meals have gone the way of the dodo, it's become a common thing for passengers to BYO food, much to the dismay of other passengers.
[CNN]

A new study shows that men who drink a liter of cola per day may face a reduced sperm count. Caffeine is probably not the culprit because coffee didn't have the same effects.
[Telegraph]

Two Manhattan sushi restaurant workers were busted for using a credit-card skimmer to steal some $60,000 from customers.
[NY Post]

Bruce Buschel has settled, finally, on a name for the forthcoming restaurant he is chronicling in his blog, You're the Boss. It will be called Southfork Kitchen.
[NY Times]


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