Intel 8/19: The Playboy Mansion’s New Owner, The End Of Señor Frog’s, And The Global Warming Crisis Killing Oysters

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Intel: August 19, 2016

Spring Break Ends at Señor Frog’s

Despite a rave in The New York Times, the Times Square location of Señor Frog’s, the spring-break-forever chain restaurant founded in Mexico, closed this week after a year of service. In his review, Pete Wells praised the Reuben sandwich and admitted that he’d “had more fun at Señor Frog’s than at almost any other restaurant that has opened in the last few years.”

Vegan Mayo Maker Hampton Creek Is in Trouble with the Feds

The US Securities and Exchange Commission has launched an official investigation into the buyback program utilized by Hampton Creek — the vegan mayonnaise company and egg industry disrupter founded by Josh Tetrick — in which contractors were hired by Hampton Creek to buy the company’s product off store shelves. The practice made Hampton Creek look more profitable than it actually is, and now the SEC is attempting to determine whether the company broke the law by failing to disclose this “revenue” source.

Who’s the New Master of the Playboy Mansion? You Can Call Him the Twinkie King

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$100 million later, 32-year-old Daren Metropolous, son of private equity billionaire Dean Metropolis, is the new owner of Hugh Hefner’s famed Playboy Mansion — on the condition that Hefner gets to stay there until he dies. The younger Metropolous, aside from being the heir to a massive fortune, is one of the owners of Hostess Brands, which makes Twinkies, Honey Buns, CupCakes, and other snacks that could easily double as nicknames for Playboy bunnies.

Love Raw Oysters? Climate Change Is About to Ruin Your Appetite

Rapidly warming ocean waters, AKA climate change, have led to an increase in a bacteria called Vibrio, which can cause fatal illness in people who eat raw shellfish — like oysters, lobsters, and crab — and go swimming in the ocean (!) The bacteria can also cause a horrible infection if it gets inside a cut or wound.

Congratulations, You Played Yourself: Florida Man Gets Banned from Ordering Pizza 

Florida resident Randy Riddle, 49, has been legally banned from ordering pizza after he reportedly spent at least three weeks harassing various pizza shops around Sebastian, Florida. Police say that Riddle would regularly place orders and then refuse to pay, send orders to wrong addresses, or just call the shops to insult their pizza. Riddle was charged with four counts of harassing phone calls, two counts of first-degree petty theft and one count of second-degree petty theft.

A warrant affidavit says that Riddle “shall refrain from calling any pizza establishment and/or making any harassing calls or his bond shall be revoked.”