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The International Hotel, Motel + Restaurant Show has been re-imaged and re-imagined as HX: The Hotel Experience-Rooms to Restaurants. The show, November 8-10 at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York, is North America’s largest hospitality-focused trade even. More than 15,000 hotel and foodservice owners, executives, directors, and decision-makers from across the hospitality…

By the time you read this, you are likely en route to Italy to join thousands of buyers, specifiers and operators at HOST 2015 in Milan. The 39th edition of the biennial show, Oct. 23-27 at Fiera Milano Exhibition Centre offers a host of catering and foodservice equipment and supplies exhibits, events and presentations. HOST 2015 includes…

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.

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…

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…

Sometimes one sees consumer economic research that just makes one’s jaw drop. How about this? Consumers are only slightly more positive about the general economy and their own finances than they were back in 2010 as we were just crawling out of the Great Recession. Just for reference, during that five-year period, real GDP has…

Breakfast/morning meal visits grew by 5% for the year ended June 2015, according to new data released by the NPD Group. Breakfast is the only foodservice meal period that has shown sustained traffic growth during the past several years. NPD’s CREST research shows the strong 2014-15 gain by breakfast came on top of a 2%…