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In a move that cuts costs but raises concerns about food safety, the U.S. Agriculture Department announced Jan. 9 that it will close 259 offices,…

Chicago’s operators will be coming clean, on their own, under a new self-certification plan. Recently inspected restaurants with no history of foodborne illness will be…

While most of the economic data from the last quarter of 2011 was better than many economists anticipated, the outlook for the coming year and…

State tax revenues continued to improve in the third quarter of 2011, according to preliminary data from the Rockefeller Institute of Government, based in Albany,…

Wholesales food prices fell in December for the second time in three months, according to data released last week by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.…

With a number of operator indicators improving in the last quarter of 2011, we thought we’d check in with the two major groups that forecast…

Theodore Barber & Co., well-known consultant firms and longtime collaborators, are merging into a new firm: RJS|Barber Associates. The new company will offer integrated foodservice…

Henry Motes Jr., the guiding force behind the century-old dealershipRiverside Baptist Church or the

Karl Winterhalter, the founder of

The National Restaurant Association is looking for the visionaries in the foodservice industry. The association plans to honor commercial and noncommercial operators with its first-everRestaurant,…