A wine and tapas venue and a pop-up café reliant on sous vide won first and second place in this year’s edition of the HX: The Hotel Experience—Rooms to Restaurants show’s (formerly the International Hotel, Motel + Restaurant Show) Foodservice Pioneering Concept competition. Top honors went to Bienvenu, a collaboration between Robert Simmons, Principal, Bruner/Cott,…

A smoothie and a bagel with a schmear might be the hot new menu pairing. Jamba Juice has teamed up with Bruegger’s Bagels to open the first of a planned nine co-branded units. The company-owned stores, bringing Bruegger’s bagel-focused menu under the same roof as Jamba Juice’s smoothies, will open in the Midwest, on the…

Refrigeration and refrigerants are topics that are never quite exhausted. With mandates and decisions swirling about from the U.S. Department of Energy and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Emerson Climate Technologies is planning another of its free events to help industry members learn more about the issues affecting their businesses. The company will host an…

The New England chapters of FCSI and MAFSI celebrated their 42nd annual golf outing and reception on June 1. The charitable event in Andover, Mass., welcomed 128 participants and 84 tee-sign sponsors, raising a total of $20,900 for the Wounded Warrior Project; the funds raised will support the programs and services offered for injured veterans…

With a new online calendar and signup form, CFESA has made it easy to reserve time and space in its new World Headquarters & Global Training Facility based in Fort Mill, S.C. (about 10 minutes from Charlotte, N.C.). CFESA’s new space is designed for everything from equipment training, such as sessions on chain rollouts, rep and consultant training and meeting…

You have just about run out of time to register for Foodservice Equipment Reports‘ annual President’s Preview E&S Market Forecast meeting, scheduled for Tuesday, July 28, at The Westin O’Hare in Rosemont, Ill. The annual one-day President’s Preview forecast event has been presented annually since 2006. It offers manufacturers, operators, dealers, reps and others interested…

After years of sluggish growth, the U.S. foodservice market has finally broken out of the doldrums. Strong jobs growth and the dramatic drop in energy prices in the second half of 2014 has helped push consumer confidence to post-recession levels. One benefit has been strong growth in sales and traffic in the U.S. foodservice market.…

Foodservice chains, which helped drive the recovery from the global financial crisis, saw flat or negative traffic counts in the first quarter 2015 in most of the 11 major markets tracked by the NPD Group. On the positive side, the consumer research firm, whose foodservice practice is based in suburban Chicago, said lunch visits improved…

After falling for six consecutive months, wholesale food prices rose for the second month in June, according to the latest data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Producer Price Index. Food at the final demand stage rose 0.6% after a 0.8% gain in May. Foods and feedstuffs also rose at the intermediate demand stage,…

April’s opening of a flagship store for Azkadenya in Dubai marks the first step in an aggressive regional expansion drive by Jordan’s Eat Restaurant Group. The new Azkadenya outlet, located in a shopping mall in the city’s high-end Jumeirah district, is part of Eat’s plan to open 25 new regional outlets of the Arabic casual-dining…