Food service workers employed by Compass Group — whose contract expired in January — are picketing outside the World Bank on Wednesday.

The contract gives workers a $20 per hour minimum wage as well as affordable health insurance and pension contributions.

According to numerous media sources, Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) is suing several companies involved in the day-to-day operation of the cafeteria inside the Longworth House Office Building for damages of $150,000. Kucinich claims that a “sandwich wrap” he purchased from the cafeteria in April 2008 was “unwholesome and unfit for human consumption” because it contained an unpitted olive, which Kucinich did not “visually detect prior to consumption” and caused “serious and permanent dental and oral…

The corner of 13th Street and Pennsylvania Ave. NW may contain the best lunch value downtown. No, we’re not talking about the the all-too-familiar basement level food court or street vendor. Instead, look up and join the world thought leaders at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Located in the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, their café is a secret lunch spot of sorts, but it’s not too hard to find. All…