Only in America! All Around Pizzas and Deli, a pizza place in Virginia Beach, Virginia, is offering customers a 15 percent discount if they bring their guns or their concealed-carry permit. Double pepperoni, anyone?

Jay Laze, the marketing savvy owner of All Around, says he got the idea from a frozen yogurt shop in Utah that offers a similar discount. (Can we just pause for a moment to digest the thought of getting, like, 45 cents off your chocolate-vanilla twist with sprinkles by brandishing your 9-millimeter? Quite a visual!) Presumably not one to let a clever trend pass him by, Laze thought this would be the perf way to boost sales. And he was right! He says he’s seen SIX TIMES as many customers since he started the promo; the first one brought in -- wait for it -- an AK-47.

Looks like everyone ranting and raving that Americans' eating out habits are contributing to the obesity epidemic might have to start to simmer down a bit ... Not only have restaurants started offering healthier menu items, but The Wall Street Journal reports that patrons are actually eating 'em up! (Hee hee.) 

That's right -- we're not all gorging ourselves on deep-fried double bacon cheddar burgers and XXXL fries. A lot of people are ordering lower-fat, calorie-conscious options when they go out to eat, and restaurants are starting to realize that they better start keeping up with the demand for those options -- or else lose out on big bucks ... Awesome!

Remember that pastor, Alois Bell, who refused to tip her waitress and then got her fired for posting the note she left on her bill on Reddit? "I give God 10 percent. Why do you get 18 percent?" So not cool. Even Jesus wept. (I have it on good authority.) The Internet must respond!

And it did -- beautifully. A spoof on the infamous Applebee's pastor receipt has surfaced. It reads: "I give God 0 percent. So you get 28 percent." Well played, "Tom Joad" of Facebook (if that was yours), well played. I don't know if this is real or just photoshopped, but I love it.

While dining out isn't exactly an extreme sport, it also isn't without risk. The question raised by a recent lawsuit against celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck, however, is: How responsible are restaurants when things go wrong?

According to TMZ, a woman named Tamara Mason-Williams has filed a lawsuit against Puck saying that when she was eating at his establishment, The Source Restaurant, last April, a waitress hit her in the head with a "heavy metal water pitcher."

Ouch and unfortunate, yes, but she claims that it left her with a concussion. She's now suing for unspecified damages for lost income and medical expenses and accuses Puck of having "negligently trained" staff.

You mean they didn't have classes on how not to whack customers in the head with water pitchers? How dare they!

When I hand over that credit card to pay for dinner, I'm usually pretty confident that my card is safe and secure. I fully expect it to come back to me without so much as a scratch. So much trust, right? You're just handing that plastic over to a total stranger like it's no big deal.

Well, I guess you know what's coming: A story about the waiter who fleeced his customers. Hoo boy, here we go. A waiter at a Manhattan restaurant stole credit card and debit card information from 120 patrons. And then he went on a $120,000 shopping spree. Gulp!

Getting Sbarro pizza at the food court in the mall is about as American as the Fourth of July or our right to horrible plastic surgery. The pervasive purveyors of pizza and pasta have been a staple in the fast food scene for decades and news flash! They've decided to try something new. Just yesterday Sbarro introduced its Skinny Slice.

Yes, now you can have your Sbarro and eat it, too. Guess how few calories it has?

When couple Arielle and Shawnee McPhail went out for lunch together at The Sting Ray Cafe in New Bern, North Carolina, they expected a good meal and a bill at the end of the lunch. But they got a little something extra: An anti-gay letter from the restaurant owner. Gee, thanks for the indigestion!

Just as they were leaving, owner Ed McGovern handed them a letter and asked the lesbian couple to reevaluate their lives. And going by the letter, I don't think he was referring to their taste in food. Wow, way to show some hospitality! Here's what the letter said. Hold onto your hats.

When it comes to memorable meals, this one is difficult to beat. It all began when a young couple was out for dinner in Boston about three years ago. They were young, in love, and it showed.

According to Richard Branson, who tells the tale on his blog at Virgin.com, a generous man by the name of Pankaj Shah was dining there as well. He had the wonderful habit of anonymously paying for people's meals when he was dining out. On that particular night, he asked restaurant staff to find "the couple who looked most in love."

They did, and Shah went on about his way, probably never giving them too much more thought beyond hopes that they enjoyed the meal. But when he returned to Boston three years later, something really amazing happened.