San Diego concept aims to create affordable farm-to-table experience.

Wendy’s won Twitter's 2011 Golden Tweet honors

Revised Model Food Code supports unit-level certified food protection managers

Commodity prices and a recall of ground turkey put a strain on CKE

NRN executive editor Robin Lee Allen shares insights on the Sept. 12, 2011, issue of Nation's Restaurant News.

Analysts project on hurricane's impact on restaurant companies

Having Words With: Michael P. Doyle, Regents professor and director, University of Georgia’s Center for Food Safety

More than 15,000 restaurants participate in NRA's new program

Recent government goings-on from across the country.

Facing soaring food and fuel costs, chain operators are trying to figure out how much of a hike in menu prices their customers can take and the best way to break the sad news to them that the days of heavy discounting are coming to an end.

The United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization reported that world food prices rose 2.2 percent in February to a new record high and could rise further still if drought continues to decimate China’s wheat harvest. The reasons for high prices: drought in Russia and Argentina, floods in Canada and Pakistan, export bans, and panic buying and hoarding. These supply disruptions have led agricultural economists to ask, “If the world can’t properly feed 7 billion people today, how will it feed 9 billion in 2050?” In fact, the FAO estimates food output will have to rise 70 percent by 2050 to keep pace with population growth.