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As quick-service chains jockey for position in a mature and crowded market-place, more of them are offering nontraditional foods at nontraditional times. While some fast-food operators continue to duke it out for the standard breakfast-lunch...
With childhood obesity reaching what some experts call epidemic proportions, Chartwells School Dining Services has a mission to help schools serve students healthful, balanced meals. Through a comprehensive program...
WASHINGTON —Quick-service chains that target children may come under unprecedented scrutiny this year by the Federal Trade Commission and Congress, which could act to regulate kids-marketing practices if FTC subpoenas for corporate...
Tamy Duplantis thrives on challenge. That’s an attitude that has served her well as vice president of information technology, or IT, at Potbelly Sandwich Works, based in Chicago, which has more than 140 company-owned stores. ...
Most of the time, sugar daddies don’t intend to enrich the targets of their pursuits.But if the sugar daddy is a deep-pocketed developer courting a high-profile restaurateur to open marquee eateries in dazzling new condo, hotel, retail or...
Spinach, in all its leafy-green, nutrition-dense glory, is back.After last fall’s E. coli foodborne-illness scare, which led restaurants nationwide to pull the vegetable from their menus, spinach quickly returned to its significant place in...
In the decade-long tradition of the MenuMasters Awards, this year’s winners represent a well-deserving slate of research and development executives, leaders and influential restaurant companies. In the past year, the honorees played crucial roles...
“Improving their food quality was the first leg of a three-legged stool to reinvent their brand, involving quality food, more contemporary restaurants and better service.” That’s how restaurant analyst Larry Miller of RBC Capital Markets describes...
People who know Clifford Pleau say he has a passion for development and leadership. Anette Grecchi Gray, chef de cuisine at Disney’s Animal Kingdom Lodge in Orlando, Fla., says Pleau is “paving the way” for other chefs who eventually will follow...
ST. HELENA, CALIF. —Chef instructors at The Culinary Institute of America’s Greystone campus here recently demonstrated ways to increase the appeal of health-oriented foods to health care professionals during an inaugural joint program...