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Trader Joe’s Owners Don’t Like to Talk; Organic Vending Machines Are Becoming a Thing

• The owners of Trader Joe’s are German, and super secretive. [CHOW]

• The Dining Room at the Ritz and Gary Danko rank on Esquire’s list of best places to have a business meeting. [Esquire]

• An obit for Mike McGarvey, longtime owner of Java House and Red’s Java House. [Chron]

Namu is doing CSA boxes. [Scoop]

• A measure passed recently by Congress affects all food sold in schools, including vending machine contents. This is spawning an organic vending industry, which unfortunately is run by people who make statements like, “We’re at the beginning of a major movement in vending.” [Today/MSNBC]

• Walgreen Co plans to add food to 400 stores in so-called “food deserts,” urban areas where access to fresh goods and produce is scarce. Perhaps someone at the company read this article! [Reuters]

• Wonky weather has affected U.S. corn and soybean crops, and higher prices for those commodities may push up food costs overall. Michael Pollan, are you off somewhere penning an op-ed? [USAT]

• An iconic restaurant in Brisbane, Drift Cafe, situated on pontoons in the river, is now almost completely submerged in the floods washing through that city. [Sydney Morning Herald]

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