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A number of restaurant-activity indicators released during the past couple weeks show a pronounced positive trend for commercial foodservice. Data from The NPD Group on…

The Business Barometer maintained by the Manufacturers’ Agents Association for the Foodservice Industry improved again in the third quarter, posting a modest 1.5% decline versus…

And now for the long-term picture. As we reported last issue, the consensus forecast for real growth of gross domestic product in the U.S. next…

Many observers of the foodservice market are concerned about the potential impact of rising food and other commodity prices on the nascent recovery in foodservice…

Overall state tax revenues grew 2.3% in the second quarter 2010, compared with the same quarter last year, according to the latest study from the…

As we headed off to the Thanksgiving holiday weekend last week, the U.S. Departments of Commerce and Labor, and Thomson Reuters/The University of Michigan Surveys…

In preparation for our annual market-forecast articles in next month’s Foodservice Equipment Reports, we asked our friends Joe Pawlak, v.p. at Technomic Inc., and Hudson…

The Restaurant Performance Index maintained by the National Restaurant Association rose for the third month in a row in October, stayed above the 100 level…

Blended sales of seven large publicly traded foodservice equipment and supplies companies rose 6.7% in the third quarter versus the third quarter in 2009. It…

Improved sales of foodservice equipment and supplies during the second half of 2010 and a more positive outlook for operator sales next year has led…