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Filipino Flavors Slated For Middle East Footprint
Dubai-based Al Ahli Holding Group will open no fewer than 20 Philippine-themed food and beverage outlets called “Little Manila” across the Middle East and beyond over the next five years. Six Filipino brands will be grouped into Little Manila franchise outlets: Binalot, a Filipino quick-serve chain known for banana-leaf-wrapped dishes; Jay-J’s, a chicken chain; Fruitas,…
Gas Prices Still Falling; What Does It Mean For Foodservice?
It’s conventional wisdom that when gasoline prices come down, foodservice sales—at least at commercial operations—go up. It’s conventional wisdom because there is a huge body of evidence to support it. So we were taken back a bit when Joe Pawlak, v.p, at Technomic, told us last week that while lower gasoline prices are indeed a…
Technomic Takes 2015 Operator Sales Forecast Higher
The improving jobs market and falling gasoline prices are among the factors underlying an upward revision of Technomic Inc.’s 2015 forecast of foodservice operator sales, released to the firm’s customers last week. Technomic now forecasts total foodservice industry sales will grow 3.9% in current dollars with real growth pegged at 1.5%. This compares with the…
Potbelly To Land In London
Potbelly Sandwich Works has signed up franchisees to open 10 shops in London over the next five years. Those would be the Chicago sandwich chain’s first outlets in Europe. Potbelly, which has 347 stores, expanded into the Middle East in 2012, where it operates a dozen franchise stores in Kuwait, Bahrain and the United Arab…
New Faces At Meiko To Oversee Sales Development, Marketing And Training
Meiko USA has promoted Danielle Mason to oversee strategic sales and business development. Mason, formerly Meiko’s sales and customer service operations manager, will work closely with the Nashville-based manufacturer’s regional sales managers, sales rep network and buying groups. Independent consultant Celeste Raines has joined the company as its new product and sales training specialist to…
T&S Honored As Top Factory
T&S Brass and Bronze Works has been singled out by IndustryWeek magazine as having one of the best manufacturing plants in North America. The publication recognized T&S last week as one of six winners in its 25th annual Best Plants competition. IndustryWeek editors cited the Travelers Rest, S.C., plant as an efficient manufacturing operation dedicated…
Edlund Names Three To Sales Posts
Edlund Co., the Burlington, Vt., company celebrating its 90th anniversary this year, has named B.C. Roberts as its director of chain accounts. Formerly the director of sales-eastern region, he will now manage relationships with foodservice chains and work with chain-oriented dealers. Roberts also will continue managing sales in the Carolinas. Marie Boyd succeeds Roberts in…
New York State Mandates Carbon Monoxide Detectors For Restaurants
Starting in June, New York State will require all restaurants and commercial buildings to install carbon monoxide detectors. The law was prompted in part by the February 2014 death of a Legal Sea Foods restaurant manager on Long Island from a carbon monoxide leak from a malfunctioning water heater pipe. Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed the…
Pittsburgh, Seattle Consider Letter Grades
Pittsburgh and Seattle are the latest large metropolitan areas to consider requiring restaurants to post health department inspection letter grades on their doors. Operators in those two cities want more say in how the process will work Backers of the measures point to the self-proclaimed success of New York City, where the health department boasts…
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