The Northeast Chapters of the Foodservice Consultants Society International — The Americas Division and Manufacturers’ Agents for Foodservice Industry (MAFSI) raised $16,550 for the Boston Rescue Mission as a result of their 43rd annual golf outing and reception.
In-store dining and take-out of prepared foods from grocers has grown nearly 30 percent since 2008, and accounted for 2.4 billion foodservice visits and $10 billion of consumer spending in 2015, according to a report by the NPD Group, A Generational Study: The Evolution of Eating.
Former Starbucks executive joins the fast-casual pizza concept.
2015 Silver Plate Award winner joins consultancy.
Fifty-eight percent of restaurant operators reported a same-store sales gain between April 2015 and April 2016.
Renowned restaurateur Danny Meyer of the Union Square Hospitality Group (USHG) paid a visit to the Hyde Park, N.Y., campus of the Culinary Institute of America (CIA). CIA students filled the 800-seat auditorium in the college’s Marriott Pavilion for sessions with Meyer and his team about career opportunities at USHG, his hospitality philosophy, ending tipping in the restaurant industry, careers in wine, and a cooking demonstration with Carmen Quagliata, executive chef of Union Square Café and a 1988 graduate of the CIA.
Cooking demonstrations, mentoring and more were on the menu during the 23rd Annual Women Chefs and Restaurateurs Conference in Los Angeles.
