Have you ever wondered how rearranging your kitchen layout can reduce labor and speed service? If your chain is growing, is your supply chain ready to grow with you? And what are the potential benefits and challenges of solar energy, heat recovery and super-efficient appliances in your operations? Once again, Foodservice Equipment Reports’ Multiunit Foodservice…

Four months before the show opens, Intergastra looks like a “don’t miss” event. With most of the more than 100,000 square metres of available exhibition space already booked up, the show’s organizers have started waiting lists for hopeful exhibitors. More than 1,300 already are signed up to exhibit wares to an expected 90,000 visitors The February…

The foodservice and foodservice equipment and supplies markets in the United States and Canada are most likely reaching the top of the current economic cycle this year and next, according to current forecasts, including Foodservice Equipment Reports’ 2015 and 2016 E&S market forecasts released in late July. “We expect 2015 to be the peak of…

Prices for most foods, industrial metals and energy products have fallen, often dramatically, during 2015. The outlook for 2016 is for stabilization or even more declines. Most foodservice operators around the globe should experience a stable or even declining cost input environment next year. The one exception is labor costs, which are rising in several…

Technomic Inc., the Chicago-based foodservice research firm, sometimes revises its forecasts of operator sales trends in late summer or early fall. Given the slowing in jobs growth and the August turmoil in the equities markets, FER Fortnightly asked V.P. Joe Pawlak for an update. “We have not revised 2016 and have no plans to do…

Have you ever wondered how rearranging your kitchen layout can reduce labor and speed service? If your chain is growing, is your supply chain ready to grow with you? And what are the potential benefits and challenges of solar energy, heat recovery and super-efficient appliances in your operations? Once again, FER’s Multiunit Foodservice Equipment Symposium…

As reported in our story in the September 16 Fortnightly, the Commodity Classification Standards Board approved the following commodity class modifications for ovens, grease traps and ice cream makers and freezers at its September 29 meeting. These changes go into effect December 19. The disposition on the changes can be found here.

The nation’s top chicken chain has made it everywhere else, so it’s giving it a go in New York, New York with its first freestanding unit. The three-story, 5,000-sq.ft. store that opened last month in the city’s Garment District is the largest Chick-fil-A in the country, with eight registers to handle traffic, and featuring tables…

The National Conference hosted by Society for Hospitality and Foodservice Management is just weeks away. SHFM’s meeting, October 28-30 at the Hyatt Regency in New Orleans, includes a full lineup of educational programs and networking opportunities, as well as the presentation of the group’s annual awards. Winners of SHFM Directors’ Awards, which recognize honorees who…

With a new franchise partner on board in Egypt, Smashburger will soon expand its footprint to nine countries. The Denver-based “better burger” chain has added the Pearll Investment Group as a new franchise partner there and will launch 25 restaurants in the next several years. Pearll currently operates more than 10 chain restaurants in the…