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Franke’s Espresso Machine Wins Kudos
Franke Coffee Systems’ new premium-class A600 Superautomatic Espresso Machine is one of the recipients of this year’s Kitchen Innovations Awards from the U.S.-based National Restaurant Association. It combines innovative FoamMaster technology with a patented brew unit and a breakthrough fully-automated clean-in-place system. Additionally, the intuitive eight-inch touchscreen, with both image and video capability, allows the…
UK Foodservice Sales Growth To Slow Slightly In 2016
A slight slowdown in growth of the British economy, a somewhat more cautious consumer, and the uncertainties surrounding the referendum on the United Kingdom’s continued membership in the European Union are among the “stones in the road” impacting the foodservice market in the UK These factors and others led London-based foodservice research firm Horizons to forecast a…
4Q Sales Rose In Nearly All Major Global Markets
Despite political and economic turmoil in many of the world’s major foodservice markets, sales and customer traffic rose, according to the latest data from The NPD Group’s CREST studies. Traffic rose more than 2% in Australia, China and Great Britain, and also was positive in Spain, Italy and the U.S. Traffic in France had been…
Specifi, Equipment Specification Software Firm, Buys UK BIM Supplier
Specifi LLC, the Chicago-based provider of end-to-end design information and solutions supporting the foodservice equipment specification process, has agreed to purchase the business of Schematic Ltd, a UK-based supplier of Building Information Modeling (BIM) software, content creation and repository services to the European foodservice equipment industry. Terms of the agreement, announced April 14, have not…
Axel Beck Named To Top Spot At Hobart/ITW Global Ware Wash
ITW Group has appointed Axel Beck, Hobart General Manager and Vice President, as Group President Global Ware Wash. Beck will keep his offices in Offenburg, site of Hobart’s European headquarters. The European and Asian Hobart companies as well as the American and the Italian warewashing group will report directly to him there. Beck joined Hobart…
Ontario Clears The Air: No Smoking Means No Vaping
Ontario’s government has proposed changes to its indoor smoking regulations which would prohibit the use of e-cigarettes and the smoking and vaping of medical marijuana in all enclosed public places. The issue came to light recently when Ontario introduced regulations to allow medical marijuana users to be exempt from public smoking bans. At the time,…
Colorado Might Swap Restaurant Grades For Higher Inspection Fees
With restaurants in some of its largest counties going two years between inspections due to a lack of trained inspectors, Colorado is looking at new ways to pay for ensuring clean, food-safe kitchens. A 14-page bill in the state’s General Assembly would increase the fees used to hire restaurant inspectors, a boon to the coffers…
First-Quarter Blahs Hit Macro Forecasts Again
The consensus forecasts for the general economy slipped in the latest Blue Chip Economic Indicators survey released April 10, as the first-quarter “blahs” undercut the annual forecast again this year. The forecast for annualized growth of real domestic product in the U.S. in first quarter 2016 dropped 0.7 point to 1.3, which pushed the forecast…
Latest Consumer Data Show Combination Of Optimism And Realism
The latest consumer data from the University of Michigan show an interesting divergence: Consumers are quite optimistic about the outlook for their personal finances but realistic about the outlook for economic growth. Consumers currently view their personal finances as the strongest in a decade but also anticipate that the growth rate will not be strong…
Fast-Casual Concepts Grew Units 5%, Traffic 6% In Past Year
The growth of fast-casual restaurant concepts continues to dramatically outpace that of all other restaurant segments, according to data from The NPD Group. The upscale limited-service concepts remain a small part of the overall restaurant environment. According to NPD’s ReCount restaurant census for the year ended Sept. 30, 2015, fast-casual units numbered 19,043 out of…
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