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AHF To Mark Healthcare Foodservice Workers Week
September is National Food Safety Month. October brings another commemoration of the foodservice industry. From Oct. 1-7, the Association for Healthcare Foodservice will celebrate Healthcare Foodservice Workers Week. The tradition was begun in 1985 by a legacy association that is now part of AHF. “Foodservice and nutrition professionals in healthcare play a vital role in…
First Call For Kitchen Innovations Awards
This past year, 21 trailblazing machines, technologies and equipment were honored with the National Restaurant Association’s Kitchens Innovations Awards. While next year’s National Restaurant Association Restaurant, Hotel-Motel Show is still months away (May 18-21 at Chicago’s McCormick Place), the NRA has put out a first call to manufacturers to submit their cutting-edge equipment, technologies and…
SFM Presents Its Top Awards
The Society for Foodservice Management held its national conference in Las Vegas last week. Among the highlights were the annual awards recognizing special honorees who have gone "above and beyond" to serve the association and better the industry. Five SFM members were honored with Directors’ Awards: Community Service Award: Dan McCaffrey, account executive-Day and Nite…
Papa Murphy’s Plans 100 Units In The Gulf Region
Papa Murphy’s Int’l. is making a giant expansion leap out of North America. The Vancouver, Wash., chain has inked a master franchise agreement with MAM Foodco LLC to open 100 Papa Murphy’s Take ‘N’ Bake Pizza locations throughout the Gulf Cooperation Council region. The first location will open in Dubai, UAE, by the end of…
Corner Bakery Cafe Expanding To The Pacific Northwest
Corner Bakery Café is working full steam ahead on its plan to more than double its footprint over the next four years. The Dallas chain, which has signed 22 franchise agreements for more than 279 new restaurants, just announced a deal for 18 stores in the Seattle area. An agreement with Northwest Bakery Cafe, a…
FER Announces Winners Of Young Lion Awards
Foodservice Equipment Reports, with the assistance of industry associations and the magazine’s Awards Selection Advisory Boards, has named six accomplished individuals to receive the magazine’s first Young Lion Awards. The awards honor talented professionals aged 40 or younger who have already made a significant contribution to the foodservice equipment and supplies industry. The winners will…
What’s The Impact If We Fall Off The Fiscal Cliff?
There is a very interesting discussion in the September issue of Blue Chip Economic Indicators of the potential impact on growth of gross domestic product in the U.S. if Congress and the President don’t somehow avoid the so-called “fiscal cliff,” the combination of tax hikes and automatic spending cuts passed in August 2011 as part…
Consumer Sentiment Jumped In First September Reading
We guess you could call it irrational exuberance. The Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index took an unexpected jump in the preliminary September reading, released Sept. 14. The index rose nearly five points from the late August number, reaching 79.2, the highest level since May. The preliminary Expectations Index also surged to 73.4 from…
Gasoline And Diesel Prices Still Rising
Fuel prices generally start falling after Labor Day as the demands of summer-vacation driving recede. Having seen the big jumps in August’s Consumer and Producer Price Energy Indices, released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics last week, we thought we’d check to see if there has been any downward movement since the holiday. Answer: Nope,…
Food And Gas Price Spikes Push Inflation Indexes Higher
The huge unexpected jump in gasoline prices combined with an anticipated increase in food prices to push the Consumer and Producer Price Indices sharply higher in August, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The PPI rose 1.7% from July while the CPI was up 0.6%. Both increases were the biggest jumps monthly since June…
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