While L'Oreal announced last week that they'd be shutting down their remaining hair products factory in Solon, Ohio, this week brings better news for the city. Nestle USA announced on Monday that it had decided to move their Hot Pockets and Lean Pockets business teams from Colorado to Solon, which will create new job openings for the Northeast Ohio region.

It is not yet known just how many jobs the relocation will bring to the area, as it is dependent on how many of the 70 or so Nestle employees from Englewood, Colo., will make the decision to move to Ohio.

Some of the positions will be consolidated, and "way more than half" of the team, which includes positions in marketing, finance, and product development, has been invited to transfer to Solon.

Nestle Prepared Foods Co. of Solon also oversees Stouffer's and Lean Cuisine frozen meals, Nestle Toll House refrigerated cookie dough and baking ingredients, Libby's 100-percent Pure Pumpkin, Nestle Carnation milks, and Buitoni refrigerated pastas and sauces.

By the end of 2012, four to six new or remodeled Starbucks stores in Southern California, as well as a few locations in Chicago and Atlanta, will begin offering alcoholic drinks. In addition to the alcoholic beverages, Starbucks also said that it will offer "premium food" like hot flatbreads, savory snacks and small plates for happy hour patrons to order.

Starbucks began to test out its alcoholic menu in 2012 in its hometown of Seattle. Five locations in Seattle and one location in Portland, Oregon, currently offer $5 beers and wines ranging from $7 to $9.

The locations will start serving alcohol after 2pm on weekdays and after noon on weekends. All beer and wine will be kept behind the counter, rather than on display cases or shelves. Customers under the age of 21 will still be allowed inside the coffee shops.

For most of us, a craving for a Whopper and onion rings means jumping in the car and driving to the nearest Burger King. But internationally, the fast-food chain has been offering home delivery service for some time now. Recently, BK began testing out home delivery of its food for $2 in the Washington D.C. area, and is now said to be ready to expand the service to additional markets some time this week.

There has been no timeline released as to when or if Burger King plans to eventually expand the service nationwide.

Four locations in the D.C. test market currently offer the service and deliver within a 10 minute radius. Customers pay a $2 delivery fee, and all orders must meet an $8 to $10 minimum. Orders can be placed online or over the phone, and the service will be available to any home or office provided there is a physical address.

If you're wondering how the food will fare during its commute to your home, no worries - Burger King says that it has developed new packaging technology,including thermal bags to keep food "hot and fresh".

A central-Ohio based barbecue chain, Hoggy's, has shut down six out of the seven restaurants, which has translated into the loss of 100 jobs. The remaining Hoggy's location is located in the Columbus suburb of Gahanna, and will be operated under receivership.

A lawyer for the receive says that Hoggy's parent company, Three Little Pigs Ltd., was battling poor sales and increased competition.

Four of the shuttered restaurants are located in the Columbus area, other are two are located in Valley View, Ohio, and Crestview Hills, Kentucky.

Hostess Brands Inc., which is well known for making food products like Wonder Bread and Twinkies, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The company is blaming its pension and medical benefits obligations, increased competition and tough economic conditions as the reason for their need for bankruptcy protection.

Hostess' filing on Wednesday comes just two years after a predecessor company, Interstate Bakeries, emerged from bankruptcy proceedings. Interstate Bakeries filed for bankruptcy protection in 2004, and emerged in February 2009.

Hostess said that its previous efforts to produce incremental change, including a previous Chapter 11 case, were not sufficient.

It its filing, Hostess revealed that its biggest unsecured creditor is the Bakery & Confectionary Union & Industry International Pension Fund, which it owes $944.2 million. It's second-largest unsecured creditor is Central States, Southeast and Southwest Areas Pension Plan, whom they owe $11.8 million.

In order to have some booze with your White Castle burger you'd have to get it to go and crack open a can of beer at home. Now, patrons at one White Castle location will be able to order a beer along with their burgers. The Lafayette, Indiana, location is testing out the new menu item

The Lafayette restaurant is also merged with another restaurant, Blaze Modern BBQ, and is a part of a broader company experiment to merge with other eateries to form one fusion restaurant. For example, a Springfield, Ohio, location also offers the Asian food brand Laughing Noodle, and a Lebanon, Tennessee, location features triple decker sandwiches from Deckers on their menu.

White Castle's Jamie Richardson said:

“For now, this is a one-restaurant test. Our thought is to learn as much as we can from customers and our team members to see if this is something that might have merit for other locations.”

Should the beer prove to be a success, White Castle would face challenges if it decided it wanted to add alcohol to all of its restaurants. A lot of the company's employers are under 21, which would pose some problems with serving the booze, and then there's the issue of getting alcohol licenses.

Junk food junkies will soon have a new ultimate craving to bite into at Taco Bell - the Doritos Locos Taco, which features a taco shell made of Doritos and all of the regular taco fillings inside. The crazy Doritos taco, which was unveiled last year as being tested in select markets in Southern California and Toledo, Ohio, is now slated for a national release.

Taco Bell's parent company, Yum Brands, teamed up with PepsiCo to create the taco shells made of nacho cheese flavored Doritos. They debuted in early 2011 in select markets and proved to be such a success that they'll be coming to Taco Bells around the U.S. now.

The fillings on the Doritos Locos Taco are said to be milder than the company's regular tacos to compensate for the taco shell's extra flavor.

If the Doritos Locos Taco is a hit, I wonder if they'll start coming up with other Taco Bell - Doritos combinations, like maybe the Ranch Doritos Chicken Taco. Yum. Or perhaps a spicy version, like the Flaming Hot Doritos Locos Taco. Taco Bell, take note.

On Monday, McDonald's is set to announce the return of the McRib, a pork sandwich that often pops up on the fast-food giant's menu for brief periods of time. Like usual, the McRib's return will be short, but it will be available at all U.S. locations through November 14.

The boneless barbecue sandwich, which is dressed with onions, pickle slices and barbecue sauce, has inspired a cult-like following, with several dedicated Facebook groups and websites like The McRib Locator that reports rare sightings of the McRib.

The McRib was introduced national in 1982 after McDonald's then-President decided they needed to add pork to the menu. Since then though, the availability of the McRib has been left up to local franchises. The only place it is available year-round is in Germany. For the first time in 16 years, in 2010 McDonald's made the McRib available in all U.S. locations for three weeks. It was a huge hit, and while McDonald's declined to give sales figures, it was apparently enough for them to try it again.

If the sandwich is so popular, why not add it to the menu permanently? Apparently, absence makes the heart grow founder. Marta Fearon, McDonald's U.S. marketing director said: "Bringing it back every so often adds to the excitement."

In recent years, General Mills' fruit snack products like Fruit Roll-Ups, Fruit By The Foot and Gushers began featuring labeling that touted their nutritional benefits. Now a lawsuit has been filed against them, accusing the company of false advertising for portraying the products as health foods.

AdWeek reports that The Center for Science in the Public Interest has filed a class action lawsuit alleging that General Mills is guilty of misleading the public about the nutritional benefits of eating the fruit flavored snacks. The lawsuit points out the packaging which contains terms like "low fat", "gluten free", "low calorie", "naturally flavored", and a "good source of Vitamin C."

The lawsuit says:

"Defendant's Fruit Snacks contained trans fat, added sugars, and artificial food dyes; lacked significant amounts of real, natural fruit; and had no dietary fiber. Thus, although the Products were marketed as being healthful and nutritious for children and adults alike, selling these Fruit Snacks was little better than giving candy to children."

You can now add peanut butter, a long-time recession staple food item, to the list of things that "the 99 percent" may no longer be able to afford. Thanks to droughts, the price of peanut butter has gone up from $450 a ton to $1,150 a ton in just one year and now peanut butter makers are about to pass on the increased costs to consumers.

The Wall Street Journal reports that wholesale prices for Jif are going up 30 percent beginning in November. Peter Pan will increase its prices by as much as 24 percent in a couple of weeks. Skippy prices are already 30 to 35 percent higher now than they were a year ago, and Kraft Foods Inc., which launched Planters peanut butter in June, is raising its prices by 40 percent on October 31.

It will be interesting to see if consumers cut back on their peanut butter consumption in light of the rising cost and tough economy.