Top awards and the unveiling of the new board capped events at the Society for Hospitality and Foodservice Management’s 36th Annual Conference, Oct. 28-30 in New Orleans. More than 400 people attended the meeting, which focused on the future of corporate foodservice and workplace hospitality and showcased educational seminars for professional development and industry issues.…

Austin, Texas, is the place to be in January if you are a multiunit operator or foodservice equipment specifier. The lists of speakers and presentations are set, registrations and sponsors are signing up, and there are dozens of networking and educational opportunities available at FER’s Multiunit Foodservice Equipment Symposium, Jan. 23-25 at the Omni Barton Creek…

The Manitowoc Co., parent of Manitowoc Foodservice, has named board member Kenneth Krueger as Interim Chairman, President and CEO, succeeding Glen Tellock in those posts. Hubertus Muehlhaeuser remains as CEO of Manitowoc Foodservice, which the company had previously announced will be spun off in the first quarter of 2016. Additionally, John Stewart has been appointed…

Arby’s is opening a store in Manhattan, not too far away from Chick-fil-A’s first full-service outpost in the city. Arby’s last had a presence in New York in 2008, when it closed a store in the Manhattan Mall food court. The new store will debut this month in Midtown. The 3,400-unit chain is on a…

After a couple months of tepid jobs growth, the U.S. economy added 271,000 net new payroll jobs in October, according to the latest employment report released Nov. 6 by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The unemployment rate also fell slightly to 5%. In addition, the BLS revised up the number of jobs created in August…

The annual New York hotel show, rebranded this year as HX: The Hotel Experience, ran Nov. 8-10 at the Javits Center in New York City. It comes as the hotel business in the U.S. market is booming. According to the real estate investment and research firm Marcus & Millichamp, based in Calabasas, Calif., average hotel…

Congress is looking favorably at loosening the guidelines on menu-labeling legislation for convenience stores. Both the House and the Senate are considering bipartisan-sponsored versions of the Common Sense Nutrition Disclosure Act of 2015, which would allow adjustments to federal menu labeling for c-store owners. The legislation has the support of the National Association of Convenience…

ShopHouse Southeast Asian Kitchen, the fast-casual concept from Chipotle Mexican Grill, is close to entry dates for its debut in the Windy City. Its first location opens this month in suburban Schaumburg, and December will see the opening of a new store in Chicago’s Loop. The brand currently operates 10 locations in Washington and Los…

Call it salt in the wound. The New York City Department of Health has denied a request from the National Restaurant Association to delay implementing a new sodium regulation set to take effect Dec. 1. The health department stated it could not put off enacting an “important rule that will help New Yorkers make healthier…

Although same-store sales and customer traffic remained positive in September, the latest survey from the NRA’s Restaurant Performance Index registered both a modest decline in operators’ sales and a continued rise in the indicators that track capital expenditures. The RPI stood at 101.4 in September, down slightly from a level of 101.5 in August. Despite…