Matt Prescott doesn’t work in the foodservice industry, but in the past few months he’s been a force behind major policy decisions at three of the industry’s largest quick-service chains.As assistant director of factory farming campaigns for...

ATLANTA –Known as the International Foodservice Technology Exposition since its founding 12 years ago, FS/TEC has had its share of technology buyers from foreign lands in the past. This year, however...

Congress recently failed to update the nation’s immigration laws, but Colorado last year passed one of the toughest immigration-related statutes of any state, and restaurateurs and other employers there now face stiff penalties and fines for...

If ever there were a time for restaurants to engage TV viewers with a memorable ad character, this could be it.Nielsen Media Research recently reported that only a third of TV viewers could recall any commercials they saw, based on findings from...

With prodding from litigators, legislators, regulators and the natural-foods arm of the “green” movement, foodservice companies large and small are purging from their foods or from the processes that create them substances considered unnecessary...

Veteran chain operator Sid Feltenstein, who has amassed a fortune by breathing new life into tired restaurant brands, recalls how critics questioned his sanity when he bought the A&W Restaurants chain in 1995.But Feltenstein, a man colleagues...