Uncategorized
This is the description of this category. The description for each Topic can be edited in the Posts Categories section of the WordPress Admin panel.
September 18, 2012
NYC Says No To Supersized Sodas…
The city that banned trans fats and public smoking has made it official: The New York City Board of Health has approved a ban on the sale of large sodas and other sugary drinks at restaurants, street carts and other venues. The ban, the first restriction of its kind in the country, is aimed at…
September 18, 2012
McDonald’s Unveils Calorie Count Info
McDonald’s big announcement last week that it would begin posting calorie-count information made headlines, but it isn’t the first chain to get a jumpstart on new federal menu-labeling regulations. It’s just the biggest. For the past few years, chains such as Panera Bread Co. and Au Bon Pain have been posting calorie counts in their…
September 18, 2012
AHF To Mark Healthcare Foodservice Workers Week
September is National Food Safety Month. October brings another commemoration of the foodservice industry. From Oct. 1-7, the Association for Healthcare Foodservice will celebrate Healthcare Foodservice Workers Week. The tradition was begun in 1985 by a legacy association that is now part of AHF. “Foodservice and nutrition professionals in healthcare play a vital role in…
September 18, 2012
First Call For Kitchen Innovations Awards
This past year, 21 trailblazing machines, technologies and equipment were honored with the National Restaurant Association’s Kitchens Innovations Awards. While next year’s National Restaurant Association Restaurant, Hotel-Motel Show is still months away (May 18-21 at Chicago’s McCormick Place), the NRA has put out a first call to manufacturers to submit their cutting-edge equipment, technologies and…
September 18, 2012
SFM Presents Its Top Awards
The Society for Foodservice Management held its national conference in Las Vegas last week. Among the highlights were the annual awards recognizing special honorees who have gone "above and beyond" to serve the association and better the industry. Five SFM members were honored with Directors’ Awards: Community Service Award: Dan McCaffrey, account executive-Day and Nite…
September 18, 2012
Papa Murphy’s Plans 100 Units In The Gulf Region
Papa Murphy’s Int’l. is making a giant expansion leap out of North America. The Vancouver, Wash., chain has inked a master franchise agreement with MAM Foodco LLC to open 100 Papa Murphy’s Take ‘N’ Bake Pizza locations throughout the Gulf Cooperation Council region. The first location will open in Dubai, UAE, by the end of…
September 18, 2012
Corner Bakery Cafe Expanding To The Pacific Northwest
Corner Bakery Café is working full steam ahead on its plan to more than double its footprint over the next four years. The Dallas chain, which has signed 22 franchise agreements for more than 279 new restaurants, just announced a deal for 18 stores in the Seattle area. An agreement with Northwest Bakery Cafe, a…
September 18, 2012
What’s The Impact If We Fall Off The Fiscal Cliff?
There is a very interesting discussion in the September issue of Blue Chip Economic Indicators of the potential impact on growth of gross domestic product in the U.S. if Congress and the President don’t somehow avoid the so-called “fiscal cliff,” the combination of tax hikes and automatic spending cuts passed in August 2011 as part…
September 18, 2012
FER Announces Winners Of Young Lion Awards
Foodservice Equipment Reports, with the assistance of industry associations and the magazine’s Awards Selection Advisory Boards, has named six accomplished individuals to receive the magazine’s first Young Lion Awards. The awards honor talented professionals aged 40 or younger who have already made a significant contribution to the foodservice equipment and supplies industry. The winners will…
September 18, 2012
Consumer Sentiment Jumped In First September Reading
We guess you could call it irrational exuberance. The Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index took an unexpected jump in the preliminary September reading, released Sept. 14. The index rose nearly five points from the late August number, reaching 79.2, the highest level since May. The preliminary Expectations Index also surged to 73.4 from…
- Advertisement -
- Advertisement -
TRENDING NOW
- Advertisement -
- Advertisement -
- Advertisement -
- Advertisement -