According to NPR.org, “Some student food favorites are under attack in Washington. The Agriculture Department has released new standards for school nutrition and published them for public comment. Speaking right up are lobbyists for the food industry.”

Dakota Prairie is the manufacturer of flours and baking mixes. Utilizing separate facilities, they offer both gluten free and gluten flours, mixes and many packaging options. As a customer driven business they will costume mill, blend and package to your specs as well as offer private label packaging.

According to Campbell.Patch.com, “All kinds of foods have made it into various eating contests throughout the globe—hot dogs, asparagus, burgers. But, donuts?”

According to OrlandoSentinel.com, “Orlando-based Flippers Pizzeria is making some changes to its restaurants.”

According to NewsChannel5.com, “If a warm-hearted welcome home at Outlaw Field in Clarksville wasn’t enough Saturday, hundreds turned out Sunday to help a wounded soldier who is finally back home.”

Nick’s New Haven-Style Pizzeria & Bar, is slated to open early July in Boca Raton, bringing with it the time-honored apizza (pronounced ah-BEETZ) of New Haven, Connecticut, and the swank of New York City. Conceptualized by Nick Laudano and proprietary partner Anthony Giovanniello, Nick’s New Haven-Style Pizzeria & Bar will open at Glades Plaza in between Hooters and Five Guys. This 4,600-square foot pizzeria, bar and lounge offers guests a taste of inimitable New Haven-style apizza in a nostalgic atmosphere that pays homage to the era from to 1920s to the 1950s, when this unique style of thin-crust apizza was born.

California Pizza Kitchen, Inc. (CPK) announced an agreement today to expand into Taiwan with new franchise partner, Quanta Foods. As part of the agreement, a minimum of 6 new California Pizza Kitchen restaurants are expected to open in Taiwan over the next 5 years.

According to Nation’s Restaurant News, “Rising costs for food and fuel have dominated headlines and weighed heavily on the minds of restaurant operators. However, despite all the discouraging news, the state of the industry isn’t as grim as it sounds, according to Brad Ludington, a restaurant securities analyst at KeyBanc Capital Markets. In a research note this week, he outlined five reasons why things are looking up for restaurant operators this year.”

According to WellingtonDailyNews.com, “Pizza Hut restaurants in Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma and Arkansas will hold a fundraiser to benefit the United Way Tornado Disaster Fund on Monday, June 6. More than 550 Pizza Hut locations across the four states will participate.”

Pizza Inn, Inc. (Nasdaq:PZZI) is redefining the pizza dining experience with the launch of Pie Five Pizza Co., a new fast-casual concept that will offer more than five million combinations of custom made, fresh to order individual pizzas baked in less than five minutes.

Sandwiches offer an appealing option for customers who crave a quick and cheap alternative to pizza.

Sulfites – those infamous additives used to make food last longer and look fresher – are ubiquitous in our food supply and environment, and they’re making millions of us miserable and causing some of us to get very sick. So says Australian author, researcher, and certified natural therapist Paul Barratt-Hassett, who believes sulfites and other food additives have created “a global pandemic” of symptoms, syndromes, illnesses, and even some deaths.

According to RawStory.com, “Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart mocked Donald Trump Wednesday for eating pizza with a fork during his dinner with Sarah Palin.”

According to Nation’s Restaurant News, “Papa Murphy’s International, a take-and-bake pizza franchisor, said Wednesday it has hired Ken Calwell to serve as president.”

Two Boots today announced that the famed New York restaurant will open its newest location at The Fitzgerald, a mixed-use apartment community in Baltimore’s Mount Vernon neighborhood, on Tuesday, May 31st, and will celebrate with a grand opening party on Wednesday, June 1st, offering free food and live music from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

According to PizzaNews.Co.UK, “Two Domino’s Pizza employees endured a 36 hour long shift over the bank holiday weekend to raise money for the Help for Heroes charity.”

According to NYDailyNews.com, “Sarah Palin’s bus tour of patriotic sites rolled unexpectedly into New York Tuesday, when she went for a Times Square slice with fellow presidential flirt Donald Trump

Papa Murphy’s International is now offering Thailand’s distinctive flavors with the launch of its newest take ‘n’ bake pizza – Thai Chicken deLITE.

One of central Indiana’s most anticipated summer events has landed a new title sponsor and a new behind-the-scenes operator. Donatos Pizza has signed on to be the premier sponsor of the Donatos Downtown Freedom Blast, Indy’s largest fireworks display, set for dusk (approximately 9:45 p.m.) on Monday, July 4th. Emmis Radio has assumed production of the event from Regions Bank.

According to FoxNews.com, “Police in Wisconsin tracked down an alleged teenage stalker in Australia after he unwittingly left the details of his computer’s address on a pizza delivery website, WISN-TV reported Thursday.”

According to Gawker.com, “If you lived in New Zealand and found a poisonous white-tailed spider hiding in your Domino’s Pizza box, would you: a. scream; b. run into another room as fast as possible, then scream; or c., scold the spider for disturbing the peace in violation of national custom?”

According to BusinessInsider.com, “The Indians tried to win the title for the world’s most expensive pizza, but chefs at Delhi’s Leela Palace could only get the price to $200 a pie.”

Buoyed by positive same-store sales and solid optimism among restaurant operators for continued growth, the outlook for the restaurant industry remained positive in April.

According to ABCNews.com, “After spending the day in Chicago fundraising, Mitt Romney sat down with small business owners at Gino’s East, a pizza joint famous for their deep-dish pizza.”

According to Foodservice.CSNews.com, “Pizza Patròn has opened the doors on its newest Quick Service Pizza (QSP) restaurant, a freestanding concept designed to bring convenience and value of fast food to pizza. The location is the 12th Pizza Patròn serving the Houston area.”

The 92nd annual National Restaurant Association Restaurant, Hotel-Motel Show® and 4th annual International Wine, Spirits and Beer Event (IWSB) showed positive growth in attendee and exhibitor numbers. The increases underscore the NRA Show’s position as the restaurant and hospitality industry’s premier international forum for the products, services and information that operators need to grow their business. NRA Show 2011 was held at Chicago’s McCormick Place May 21-24, and IWSB was held in conjunction with the NRA Show on May 22-23.

Thanks to industry-wide collaboration, Omega-9 Oils from Dow AgroSciences have helped remove over 1 billion pounds of saturated and trans fats from the North American diet with beneficial economic and nutritional impact on the food industry.

According to IBTimes.com, “Getting the American rights to a new convenience food idea that has proven success in other countries is always a big deal. It’s a multi-billion dollar market that never stops growing. The latest new idea is pizza in a cone, something about which every on-the-go pizza lover has a right to ask ‘Why didn’t they think of this before.'”