A combination of a slowing general economy, high food-price inflation and food-safety concerns led to a dramatic slowdown in foodservice growth in China in 2013, according to Angela Liu, director of business development at NPD China. Liu presented an overview of the Chinese foodservice market at the Foodservice in the 21st Century Forum March 31…
The recovery of the foodservice market in the U.K. is fragile, but Peter Backman, managing director of Horizons FS Ltd., a London-based research firm, expects positive real and nominal growth for the market in 2014. Backman presented the forecast at the Horizons Annual Briefing in London in March. With the theme, “Return to Growth: Myth…
The 180 U.S.-based chains with operations outside of the U.S. grew international sales 4.4% in 2013 on a net unit gain of 9%, according to the latest data from Technomic Inc.’s annual Top 500 Chain Restaurant Report, released in April. The international sales increase slipped from a 5.6% international gain reported for 2012, while unit…
Ironically now—in view of recent events—traffic in the still-developing Russian restaurant market jumped 7% in the fourth quarter compared with the prior year quarter, according to the latest global consumer CREST data from The NPD Group. In a remarkable change of fortune, visits in China during the quarter fell 4%, although surging menu price increases…
Shanghai was a very busy place for foodservice professionals earlier this month. The show, March 30-April 2, drew 81,596 E&S professionals from more than 130 countries to Hotelex Shanghai at the city’s New International Expo Centre. More than 1,600 exhibitors spread out across the show floor. “Foodservice in the 21st Century,” the show’s day-long educational…
The biggest foodservice show in Latin America, Fispal Food Service, more fully known as Feira International Tradeshow of Products and Services for the Out-of-Home Consumption, is set for June 24-27. The 30th edition of the event will take place at the Expo Center Norte in São Paulo. More than 60,000 visitors from Brazil as well…
The 19th edition of Food&HotelAsia2014, Asia’s largest biennial food and hospitality tradeshow, set a few records earlier this month. The April 8-11 show, the first to fully occupy the Singapore Expo, the country’s biggest exhibition venue, boasted 3,213 exhibitors—its largest number to date—and 63 group pavilions. Preliminary data has the show attracting 64,826 attendees, more…
The hallmarks of the six-day Internorga fair in Hamburg were trends, innovations, expert discussions and new business leads. Market leaders and small creative companies brought in a host of product innovations to the fully booked show, which featured presentations by more than 1,200 exhibitors from 27 nations. About 95,000 attendees were at the March show,…
Rational would like all of its customers to get the maximum benefit from their purchase right from the start and throughout the product’s service life. Customers who purchase a Rational cooking appliance will receive a free Rational ServicePlus package that they can use as long as they have a Rational appliance in their kitchen. The…
The new Blanco AirServe Trolley makes food delivery a reliable, multidimensional process whether an operator is making 50 or 5,000 meals a day. The compact hot-air regeneration cart gives operators varied flexibility when loading hot and cold meal portions. The interior thermal partition wall is set asymmetrically and can be positioned at different depths in…