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June 7, 2016
Food Safety Consciousness Brings Out Record Attendance For Summit
If turnout was any indication of the topicality of food safety, then the 18th Annual Food Safety Summit was a roaring success. The May 9-11 summit, held for the first time in Rosemont, Ill., attracted nearly 1,700 registered food safety professionals, a 12% increase in registered attendees from 2015, and more than 200 exhibiting companies,…
June 7, 2016
Legislation Around The Fifty States:
Arizona: Installing ventilation for a pizza oven under the limitations imposed by historic building protections delayed a restaurant opening for four months in Phoenix. The new downtown Hilton Garden Inn opened last December, but regulations guiding changes, permits and preservation slowed down kitchen and patio construction. The oven’s ventilation had to be routed through nearly…
June 7, 2016
Congress Pressed On Food Waste
Chefs and operators headed to Capitol Hill two weeks ago to press for new regulations concerning the estimated 70 billion pounds of food wasted annually in the United States. The House Agriculture Committee, typically consumed with things like farm subsidies and food stamps, held its first full hearing on the topic. According to the Food…
June 7, 2016
Consumer Confidence Measures Mixed, Gas Prices Continue To Rise
One major index of consumer confidence jumped sharply in April while the other moved lower. Meanwhile, record demand continued to push gasoline prices higher. The University of Michigan’s Consumer Sentiment Index spiked to 94.7 in the final April reading, from 89 in March, its highest level in nine months. The renewed strength came from consumer…
June 7, 2016
Wholesale Food Prices Flat, But Menu Prices Maintain Upswing
Wholesale food prices, which had fallen six of the past seven months, were flat in April, according to Producer Price Index data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. For the 12 months ending April, wholesale prices were 2.5% below their year-earlier levels, the 14th consecutive month prices have been lower than the year before. Among…
June 3, 2016
McDonald’s Lauds Cooper-Atkins With Prestigious Award
Cooper-Atkins Corp. received McDonald’s top honor, the 2015 Global Supplier of the Year Award, at the chain’s worldwide convention last month. The award is presented to the organization providing the most significant impact and contribution to McDonald’s global business results from the previous year, and recognizes criteria spanning commitment to quality and food safety; product;…
June 3, 2016
Chef’s Choice Purchased By The Legacy Companies
Not quite a year after it bought Bevles from Standex Int’l., The Legacy Companies has acquired EdgeCraft Corp., maker of the Chef’s Choice brand. The completed deal was official June 3. Legacy, a privately owned company based in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., also owns Blakeslee, Excalibur, General, Greenfield WorldTrade, Kold-Draft, Maxximum, Nautilus, Omega, and Zeroll. The…
June 1, 2016
Meet, Plan, Go!
For a newly-constructed building at Mayo Clinic-Phoenix, designers and project managers worked together to create two serveries and a supporting kitchen, all readily capable of expanding.
June 1, 2016
Trayline Troopers
When your kitchen is charged with prepping hundreds of patient meal trays a day, air-screen refrigerators keep food products safely chilled along an assembly line that can last a couple of hours.
June 1, 2016
Channel Crossings Spur Collaboration
There's a new era of communication, collaboration and mutual respect between five of the industry's stakeholder associations: NAFEM, CFESA, FEDA, MAFSI and FCSI.
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