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Modern Twist on a Childhood Favorite (Podcast)

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The journey from franchisee to franchisor is the focus of this episode of The Main Course as host Barbara Castiglia speaks with brothers Neal and Nimesh Dahya, who purchased Fosters Freeze in 2015. Now, they focus on growing it. “We knew from what we learned; we could acquire the brand and take it to the next level.

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Blue Bell hit with $17,250,000 Criminal Fine

Bill Marler

million in criminal penalties for shipments of contaminated products linked to a 2015 listeriosis outbreak, the Justice Department announced today. American consumers must be able to trust that the foods they purchase are safe to eat,” said Acting Assistant Attorney General Jeffrey Bossert Clark of the Justice Department’s Civil Division. “The

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Savvy Restaurateurs Reinventing as Grocerants 

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What started as a means to get rid of already purchased stock at the beginning of the pandemic has led to many restaurant owners realizing they might be onto something with new revenue streams to offset their losses. Café 1948 started as a small mobile trailer in Tyler Texas by Samuel and his wife in 2015. ® and SPINS?®,

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Trash or Treasure? Used Cooking Oil’s Golden Allure Isn’t Just About its Color

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And in 2015, North America’s largest renewable diesel facility went live, producing a low carbon biofuel with properties identical to petroleum-based diesel, but releasing up to 85 percent less carbon emissions.

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The Evolution of Restaurant Technology: What’s Next?

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Between 2005 – 2015, there was a lot of technology being brought into restaurants and it was a lot of young, early-stage companies. I remember the early days of POS cloud systems (2010-2015), and a lot of them were pretty bad. I was very technically literate and open-minded to using restaurant technology. Really unreliable.

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Back to the Future: Why New Mover Direct Mail Still Outperforms Digital/Social/Email Marketing

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For instance, in 2015, the U.S. Whereas if you’re selling home water heaters or aluminum siding – something you don’t purchase and consume three times per day like you do food – you basically just have to hope that you find somebody who really needs your product at that very moment.

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If history is a guide, no obvious common link between E. coli O121 and Falafel

Bill Marler

Among these 15 ALDI shoppers, 6 reported eating Earth Grown brand frozen falafel purchased from ALDI in the week before getting sick. 2015-2016 Multistate Outbreak of E. State and local public health officials are interviewing people about the foods they ate in the week before they got sick. Here are some prior E. 2018 Outbreak of E.