Pat Boone All-American Meats announced an exclusive partnership with the Laura Ingraham Radio Program, making the entertainer's legacy brand of premium meats the Official Steak of the Laura Ingraham Radio Program.

A worker on the cleaning crew at K&K Gourmet Meats in Leetsdale, Pa., had his foot caught in a shut-down grinder for eight hours before being freed. According to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the grinder had been turned off for cleaning when Nicholas Mangino, 26, slipped and got his foot wedged in the machine.

As consumers become more confident and increase spending, the restaurant industry is well positioned to begin growing in 2011.

McDonald's and its franchisees are looking to hire up to 50,000 new crew and restaurant management positions at restaurants across the country during a hiring event on April 19.

Jennie-O Turkey Store, a Willmar, Minn. establishment, is recalling approximately 54,960 pounds of frozen, raw turkey burger products that may be contaminated with Salmonella, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service announced.

Hormel Foods Corp. is suing a Dutch company that has a package similar to Hormel's Spam product. Zwaneburd Food Group, which manufactures its “Perm” canned lunch meat in Cincinnati, Ohio, is accused of using a yellow-on-blue design that's “confusingly similar” to Spam's package design, reports the Associated Press.

Omaha Steaks announced the launch of its new mobile website. Developed in-house, the new mobi-site is designed to make it ultra-convenient for users to shop Omaha Steaks from a variety of mobile devices including the iPhone, Droid and BlackBerry operating systems.

A Tama, Iowa, beef packing plant that closed in May 2004 has been purchased by a group of local investors and may reopen this year. The Waterloo/Cedar Falls Courier reports the investors, headed by Jeff Muchow, combined under the title Amber Capital to buy the property.

Nebraska state senators advanced a bill that would allow for a state meat inspection program and possibly a horse slaughter and processing facility, and the chair of the state's Agriculture Committee slammed the Humane Society of the United States in the process.

Wayne Farms, a Decatur, Ala., establishment is recalling approximately 53,210 pounds of frozen, breaded, fully cooked Italian-style chicken breast fillet products because they contain an undeclared allergen, egg, which is not noted on the label. Egg is a known allergen.