Galatoire’s looks to Texas for future expansion options … Fears of bacon shortage unfounded, but prices are expected to rise

Everything’s bigger in Texas: While Galatoire’s new restaurant in the Acadian Village Shopping Center on Perkins Road is on target to open before the end of the year as planned, owner John Georges is looking seriously at expanding the venerable New Orleans institution into the Houston market. Georges tells Daily Report he has two potential sites in Houston’s posh River Oaks neighborhood lined up and that he could open what would be Galatoire’s first out-of-state restaurant as soon as next year.

Bacon shortage baloney?: Take a deep breath and relax, bacon lovers. It appears fears of a worldwide bacon shortage may be hogwash. At least that’s what U.S. agricultural experts are saying in response to a trade group in Europe that last week declared a bacon shortage was “unavoidable,” citing a sharp decline in the continent’s pig herd and drought-inflated feed costs. The American Farm Bureau Federation is dismissing the claim, however. Click here to read the whole story.