The Center for Science in the Public Interest is urging Congress to require packaged and restaurant food to reduce sodium content by half within ten years.

IHOP Corp. (NYSE: IHP), one of America's favorite restaurants for breakfast, lunch and dinner, announced on July 9 that an affiliate of Atlanta-based Argonne Capital Group, LLC, Sunshine Restaurant Partners LLC, has acquired the restaurant assets, operations and development rights of the Company's largest area licensee, FMS Management Systems, Inc. FMS owned, operated and sub-franchised 148 IHOP restaurants located throughout the state of Florida as well as in certain counties of Southern Georgia.

What do 300 million Americans have in common? Eating. GE Capital Solutions, Franchise Finance-a leading financier to the restaurant franchise industry-recently unveiled its 17th annual Chain Restaurant Industry Review.