The International Hotel, Motel + Restaurant Show has been re-imaged and re-imagined as HX: The Hotel Experience-Rooms to Restaurants. The show, November 8-10 at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York, is North America’s largest hospitality-focused trade even. More than 15,000 hotel and foodservice owners, executives, directors, and decision-makers from across the hospitality…

The most important foodservice equipment and supplies show in the Middle East? That’s the goal for the third edition of Kitchen Equipment-Hotels, Restaurants, Catering Exhibition Middle East, forecast to be the region’s foremost business-to-business event for these industries. Kitchen Equipment – HORECA Middle East 2015 will be held December 8-10 at Expo Centre Sharjah in…

Have you ever wondered how rearranging your kitchen layout can reduce labor and speed service? If your chain is growing, is your supply chain ready to grow with you? And what are the potential benefits and challenges of solar energy, heat recovery and super-efficient appliances in your operations? Once again, Foodservice Equipment Reports’ Multiunit Foodservice…

Four months before the show opens, Intergastra looks like a “don’t miss” event. With most of the more than 100,000 square metres of available exhibition space already booked up, the show’s organizers have started waiting lists for hopeful exhibitors. More than 1,300 already are signed up to exhibit wares to an expected 90,000 visitors The February…

The foodservice and foodservice equipment and supplies markets in the United States and Canada are most likely reaching the top of the current economic cycle this year and next, according to current forecasts, including Foodservice Equipment Reports’ 2015 and 2016 E&S market forecasts released in late July. “We expect 2015 to be the peak of…

Prices for most foods, industrial metals and energy products have fallen, often dramatically, during 2015. The outlook for 2016 is for stabilization or even more declines. Most foodservice operators around the globe should experience a stable or even declining cost input environment next year. The one exception is labor costs, which are rising in several…

Technomic Inc., the Chicago-based foodservice research firm, sometimes revises its forecasts of operator sales trends in late summer or early fall. Given the slowing in jobs growth and the August turmoil in the equities markets, FER Fortnightly asked V.P. Joe Pawlak for an update. “We have not revised 2016 and have no plans to do…

Have you ever wondered how rearranging your kitchen layout can reduce labor and speed service? If your chain is growing, is your supply chain ready to grow with you? And what are the potential benefits and challenges of solar energy, heat recovery and super-efficient appliances in your operations? Once again, FER’s Multiunit Foodservice Equipment Symposium…

As reported in our story in the September 16 Fortnightly, the Commodity Classification Standards Board approved the following commodity class modifications for ovens, grease traps and ice cream makers and freezers at its September 29 meeting. These changes go into effect December 19. The disposition on the changes can be found here.

The nation’s top chicken chain has made it everywhere else, so it’s giving it a go in New York, New York with its first freestanding unit. The three-story, 5,000-sq.ft. store that opened last month in the city’s Garment District is the largest Chick-fil-A in the country, with eight registers to handle traffic, and featuring tables…