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Popeye’s Robbed at Gunpoint; Heart Attack Grill Spokesman Dead at 29

• A 16-year-old using a bicycle as an escape vehicle was nabbed Saturday in Livermore after robbing a Popeye’s Chicken and a Denny’s at gunpoint. [Tribune]

Patxi’s in Noe Valley is putting in a walk-up pizza window. [Noe Valley SF]

• Regarding the possible migratory patterns between four popular Mission bars. [Rumpus via Uptown Almanac]

• The NYT takes on the shark fin debate, in which one Chinatown shark fin seller sums up the crux thusly: “No shark’s fin soup [on your menu], you’re cheap.” [NYT, Earlier, Earlier still]

• Blair River, the 575-pound spokesman for the proudly unhealthy Heart Attack Grill, is dead at age 29. While this is cruelly ironic, at least it wasn’t a heart attack that did him in: it was pneumonia. [NYDN]

• Yeep: Check your Skippy jars. If the peanut butter is labeled “reduced fat,” it’s been recalled for possible salmonella contamination. [HuffPo]

• Organic advocates are pissed about the use of the word “natural” on food-product labels, and we don’t blame them: the term pretty much means nothing. [AP]

• And … bad news for restaurant calorie labeling: While labels in fast-food restaurants were shown to affect the food choices of 16 percent of adults, calorie counts seem to have virtually no impact on the purchases of teens or parents in low-income neighborhoods, according to a study. [USAT]

• The U.N. weighs on recent global food-price spikes, saying the world is vulnerable to food crises and that developing countries must invest more resources in agriculture. [WSJ]

Popeye’s Robbed at Gunpoint; Heart Attack Grill Spokesman Dead at 29