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January 3, 2011
Prep Table Gallery
Here’s a quick rundown on the bewildering array of refrigerated prep tables on the market right now. The group is huge, with 13 suppliers responding to our invitation to put information up. A few notes: Most of this group makes both raised-rail pizza prep tables and recessed-pan sandwich/salad versions, and we’ve tried to provide some…
January 3, 2011
CPK Debuts Travel-Plaza And Quick-Serve Sites
California Pizza Kitchen has had a busy spring. Its first quarter saw the openings of CPK’s second full-service restaurant in Dubai, UAE, and a quick-serve unit at Stony Brook University in Long Island, N.Y. Since the second-quarter began, the chain’s franchise partners have opened CPK’s first travel-plaza location, its eighth store in Mexico, and an…
January 3, 2011
Self-Serve Takes Off At TCBY
A self-service prototype is expected to give a fresh feel to 30-year-old frozen yogurt chain TCBY. The proto, which debuted in July in Salt Lake City, lets guests serve their own yogurt and toppings. The new store design offers more of a loungelike ambience for customers, with bold colors and modern furnishings. Future stores will…
January 3, 2011
ITW Buys Swiss Equipment Company
ITW continues to make news. Just days after announcing an organizational restructuring (reported in the last Fortnightly), the multinational conglomerate has acquired Elro Group, a Bremergarten, Switzerland, maker of thermal foodservice equipment. Elro, founded in 1934, manufactures products including combis, steamers, ranges, kettles and pressure cookers. It will operate as a separate business as part…
January 3, 2011
Genghis Grill To Pass 60-Unit Mark By Year’s End
Its name alone should give you a clue that Genghis Grill takes conquering new territory seriously. The Dallas chain, already the largest Mongolian grill chain in the United States, is expanding its exhibition cooking style with new restaurants in three states. The company says it will add seven more outlets—primarily in the Southwest, South Central,…
January 3, 2011
NACUFS Offers Seats For Operator Roundtables
What do you get when you put together a roomful of senior-level collegiate foodservice directors and key decision makers and give industry members time for one-on-one conversations? You get a whole lot of valuable discussion and passing of knowledge, according the National Association of College & University Food Services. Jumping off from the success of…
January 3, 2011
Technomic Sees Slow Foodservice Recovery During Next 18 Months
After the greatest foodservice recession in decades, the market is finally beginning to show signs of recovery. That was the word from the researchers and analysts at Technomic Inc.’s annual day-long conference, Restaurants 2010: Trends and Directions, held June 23 in Rosemont, Ill. But Technomic principal and founder Ron Paul cautioned that high unemployment and…
January 3, 2011
Commodity Prices Forecast To Continue Rising Into 2011
The trend of higher commodity prices will continue into 2011, according to Tom Stundza, senior principal analyst in the Pricing and Purchasing Group of IHS Global Insight. Stundza made the exclusive forecasts at FER‘s President’s Preview E&S Market Forecast meeting in Evanston, Ill., earlier this month. Noting that prices for most ferrous and nonferrous metals…
January 3, 2011
Most Macroeconomic Forecasts Hold Steady
After several months of declining forecasts, the economic outlook for the U.S. mostly stabilized in this month’s consensus forecasts from Blue Chip Economic Indicators. The more than 50 major economic forecasting groups the newsletter polled in early October kept the forecast at 2.7% real growth of gross domestic product in the U.S. this year and…
January 3, 2011
Some More (Slightly) Upbeat Macroeconomic News: Income, Spending And Consumer Sentiment Rise
As we headed off to the Thanksgiving holiday weekend last week, the U.S. Departments of Commerce and Labor, and Thomson Reuters/The University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers gave us some new data for which to be thankful. Personal income in the U.S. grew half a percentage point in October, unadjusted for inflation, following a flat…
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