• McDonald’s McCafe Frappe is now available in Philadelphia. [QSR Web]
• Vietnamese restaurants serving modified Cajun cuisine are on the rise throughout the South and in California. [NYT]
• The Qsine restaurants on Celebrity Eclipse cruise ships are now equipped with iPads for ordering. [Travolution via Feast]
• There are now a few hundred more restaurants in New Orleans than there were before Hurricane Katrina. [NYT]
• Gordon Ramsay gave up at mile 20 of the London Marathon. [Telegraph]
• Opening a restaurant in a hotel or condo development is a great way for a young chef to bypass many of the traditional financing issues. [Time]
