A collection of food-related stories from across the web.
• Taste of Jerusalem is now serving breakfast starting at 7 a.m. Expect “traditional Arab breakfast dishes like glaba, shakshuka, fatayer and foul.” [Colorado Springs Independent]
• Food trucks — an American trend inspired by things like the street food in the Indian city of Kolkata — have come to Kolkata. [NPR]
• A Mississippi IHOP parking lot caved in, taking 12 cars with it. [Associated Press]
• A new food trial is aiming to improve the “inextricable link between HIV and food insecurity” in the Nyanza region of Kenya, where 15 percent of residents are HIV-positive and everyone is dependent on the two rainy seasons. [Scientific American]
• McDonald’s is installing screens in restaurants nationwide that will recommend menu items to diners based on the weather. [Business Insider]
• Wal-Mart employees are lobbying the retail giant to offer them discounts on food. [Bloomberg]
• Software firm Dine Market is changing the way chefs like Josh Capon, Bobby Flay and Daniel Boulud are ordering food. [New York Times]
• A new restaurant concept in California is causing a ruckus among local chefs on social media: “They won’t employ any front-of-house servers. Instead, they are hiring twice the usual number of cooks and having them serve guests.” [Open Table]
• Japanese producers are pushing for a “geographic indication” label on Kobe beef. “Businesses have been using the wrong Kobe terminology for years,” says Charles Gaskins with the American Wagyu Association. [Eater]
• Food workers across America protested yesterday for a $15 minimum wage as a part of the “Fight for 15” campaign. [Los Angeles Times]
• Joe’s Crab Shack is testing a no-tipping policy at 18 of its restaurants. “[CEO Ray] Blanchette said Joe’s was not adding a service charge to checks, but was raising prices to accommodate the policy change.” [Nation’s Restaurant News]
• Nick Offerman and Jimmy Fallon share a sausage Lady and the Tramp-style. [YouTube]
