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Darden, Americana Team Up In Middle East Push
Darden Restaurants and Americana Group are joining forces to develop and operate Darden’s Red Lobster, Olive Garden and LongHorn Steakhouse brands in the Middle East. An agreement announced Oct. 19 between the Orlando, Fla.-based restaurant company and the Kuwait-headquartered franchisee calls for Americana to develop a minimum of 60 restaurants over the next five years…
TableCraft’s Davis Names Burnside As Successor
TableCraft Products Co. has announced that on Jan.1, 2011, David Burnside will assume the presidency of the 64-year-old firm. The promotion was announced by current president and company owner Glenn Davis, who will move into the role of CEO and chairman of the board. Davis joined TableCraft in 1974, and became president in ’97. He…
Traffic Jumps 2.3% In Canada First Quarter, Reports NPD
The Canadian foodservice market has consistently been in "less bad" shape than the U.S. market throughout the Great Foodservice Recession. We’ve seen that consistently from the MAFSI Business Barometer, which tracks reps’ equipment and supplies sales in Canada. Now it appears Canada will beat the U.S. to foodservice recovery, too. The NPD Group recently reported…
Consumer Confidence Rises Slightly in August
The battered American consumer has apparently absorbed the reality that things are going to get better only very slowly. Thus, despite the recent negative news on growth of the U.S. economy, jobs, consumer spending and declines in the financial markets, both major measures of consumer confidence ticked up slightly in August. The Thomson Reuters/University of…
Jobs Growth Mixed In September
Jobs growth remained sluggish in September, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Oct. 8. Total nonfarm payroll employment fell by 95,000, as government employment dropped by 159,000. The private sector added 64,000 jobs. The unemployment rate held steady at 9.6%. One of the bright spots in the report was continued growth in foodservice sector jobs.…
NRA’s Performance Index Rose Again In October And Reached Three-Year High
The Restaurant Performance Index maintained by the National Restaurant Association rose for the third month in a row in October, stayed above the 100 level that signals market expansion for the second consecutive month and reached its highest level since September 2007. In other words, it was a pretty good month for the restaurant industry…
California Grilled Chicken War Presses On
Grilled chicken with a side of carcinogen? Wording similar to that is being debated in California. An Appellate Court ruling last week reversed a ruling and reignited a case that alleges that the chicken-grilling process used by chains including McDonald’s, T.G.I. Friday’s, Applebee’s, Chick-fil-A, Chili’s and Outback Steakhouse creates a cancer-causing chemical, and that state…
L.A. Goes With Letter Grades For Food Trucks
It’s been years of diner beware for food truck fans left questioning the literal meaning of roach coach. Now, it looks as though health-department letter grades are coming to food trucks in Los Angeles County. Last week, the L.A. County Board of Supervisors took the first step toward approving a similar system for food trucks.…
Master-Bilt/Standex
Commercial refrigeration systems supplier MASTER-BILT/STANDEX, New Albany, Miss., has added a new sales-rep group. Dynamic Equipment Solutions, based in San Juan Capistrano, Calif., will represent Master-Bilt in the Southern California and Southern Nevada markets.
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