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Permira to Buy Sushi Chain for About $1 Billion

European private-equity firm Permira said it would buy Japanese sushi chain Akindo Sushiro for around $1 billion, making a bet that the popular restaurant brand can expand beyond Japan.

 

Blogger in Taiwan Jailed for Calling Food 'Too Salty'

Blogger in Taiwan Jailed for Calling Food 'Too Salty'

Remind us not to write about the food in Taiwan. On Tuesday, a blogger in Taiwan was sentenced to a month of detention and two years probation for writing that a restaurant's beef noodles were "too salty."

 

China vows to stop restaurant reuse of cooking oil

China vows to stop restaurant reuse of cooking oil

Chinese call it "gutter oil" — a foul slop fished up from sewage drains or collected at restaurant back doors — and it's being used widely in the country's eateries.

Senh: Ok. I'm officially grossed out, and my life expectancy has probably been shortened for a couple minutes while I was in China eating from street side restaurants.

 

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