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March 27, 2012
Mobile App Will Debut At FEDA’s 2012 Convention
It’s not just the seminars, workshops, business meetings and golf scores that will garner attention at this week’s
March 20, 2012
California Mulls Tougher Rules On Food Trucks
Food trucks—where they go and where they park—continue to be an issue in California. A state lawmaker, stating concerns about childhood obesity, has introduced a bill to significantly limit where food trucks and lunch wagons can operate. AB1678 would ban these mobile foodservice units from operating within 1,500 feet of schools, a distance even greater…
March 20, 2012
South Carolina Plans First Update To Food Code Since 1995
The Palmetto State is getting serious about food safety. South Carolina’s Department of Health and Environmental Control is updating the state’s food-safety regulations for the first time in 17 years. The new rules are likely to require some restaurants to upgrade equipment. They will certainly impact public health directly, by requiring cold holding temperatures be…
March 20, 2012
Updated ADA Standards Take Effect
The American Disabilities Act standards from 1991 officially expired March 15 and were supplanted by the updated
March 20, 2012
Macroeconomic Five-Year Forecasts Improve Slightly
Yes, the 50 major economic forecasting groups polled monthly by Blue Chip Economic Indicators still predict a painfully slow recovery from The Great Recession. But their long-range consensus forecasts, reported in the March newsletter, for growth of real gross domestic product for the years ’14 through’17 improved slightly from their forecasts last October. GDP growth…
March 20, 2012
Nearly All Metals Prices Begin To Move Higher
Prices for nearly all metals used widely in foodservice equipment and supplies have begun to move higher, after a brief decline in prices late last year. Stainless steel prices are moving higher after bottoming out in December and January. The MEPS Int’l. North American All Products Stainless Steel Index rose to 171.9 in February, a…
March 20, 2012
Wholesale Food Prices Falling, Slowing Menu-Price Increases
Wholesale food prices fell again in February, the third consecutive month prices have moved lower. This trend, in turn, apparently slowed the pace of menu-price increases in February from those seen in recent months. Average wholesale food prices fell 0.3% in February, compared to January, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the National…
March 20, 2012
Industry Personnel Moves:
Canadian Restaurant and Foodservices Association. Dooher will head a volunteer board of 30 restaurant industry leaders; CRFA has 30,000 members. The $63-billion restaurant industry is the fourth-largest employer in Canada, providing more than 1.1 million jobs. Atlanta-based Del Taco has appointed David Pear, formerly of Domino’s Pizza and Yum! Brands, as senior v.p.- operations. He…
March 20, 2012
NPD’s Unit Census Details Independent Restaurant Losses
Independent restaurants continued to shed units last year—a net decline of 6,863 units—even as the Great Foodservice Recession began to moderate. The tally is part of the latest data from The NPD Group’s biannual ReCount census of restaurants in the United States. Chains, meanwhile, managed a slight increase of 380 net units in the same…
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