Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 8, 2024

Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine asked restaurant industry experts for their views on what trends and challenges owners and operators can expect to see in 2024. Read the first part, here. For the second part, click here. QSRs Shift Focus from Slow-Paced Dining to Swift, Transactional Experiences Quick Service Restaurants (QSRs) are reimagining their dining spaces to prioritize speed, convenience, and personalization over traditional, slow-paced dining experiences.

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Bill Marler

JANUARY 6, 2024

Parents are understandably angry at a company – someone in the cinnamon supply chain – would intentionally add significant about of dangerous metals that would eventually end up in the bodies of U.S. children. As I said to the USA Today – Yesterday: “I have never seen chromium being found in foods before, but we have also never seen these high of levels of lead either,” food safety lawyer Bill Marler told USA TODAY.

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Food + Tech Connect

JANUARY 8, 2024

Image Credit: AgFunder News Every week we track the business, tech and investment trends in CPG, retail, restaurants, agriculture, cooking and health, so you don’t have to. Here are some of this week’s top headlines. In other news, we’ve wrapped the first season of our podcast in partnership with AgFunder: New Food Order, a nuanced investigation into the business of tackling our climate and social crises through food and agriculture.

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Chef Ann Foundation

JANUARY 11, 2024

Because of their sheer scale, school meal programs have an outsized impact on the nation’s food system. Strengthening relationships between schools and community-based food system stakeholders can build more nourishing, sustainable, and equitable school meal programs.

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Driven by a diverse and exciting ecosystem of passionate, ambitious, and often young entrepreneurs, the Food & Beverage (F&B) sector is a highly competitive environment full of immense challenges and exciting opportunities. Expert Market’s 2024 industry report, sponsored by Toast, is informed by a survey of 522 U.S. food and beverage professionals, from restaurant owners to food service managers, providing insights into the real-time challenges and opportunities within the industry.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 9, 2024

Restaurant owners should work to forecast their busy and slow seasons and use these projections to determine whether they are likely to need capital as they transition into their busy season. This can be especially true going into the holidays. Banks have been reducing exposure to small businesses ever since the pandemic, and now with higher interest rates putting pressure on bank deposits and greater regulatory scrutiny, banks are reducing their loan books even more.

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Food Safety News

JANUARY 12, 2024

The Quaker Oats Company is expanding their Dec. 15, 2023, recall to include additional cereals, bars and snacks because of potential Salmonella contamination. The products listed below are sold throughout the 50 United States, Puerto Rico, Guam and Saipan. This recall applies to the specific products listed below, in addition to the products announced on Dec. 15, 2023.

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Food Safety Magazine

JANUARY 9, 2024

A new study has found microplastic particles in 88 percent of protein food samples across 16 types, with no statistical difference in microplastics concentrations between land- and ocean-sourced proteins.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 8, 2024

Efficiency is paramount when it comes to your drive-thru service. This crucial aspect significantly influences the financial success of your Quick-Serve Restaurant (QSR) and plays a pivotal role in thriving within a competitive market. With drive-thru sales constituting approximately 70 percent of fast food revenue , worth billions monthly, the speed at which customers navigate your drive-thru not only impacts satisfaction but also determines overall profitability.

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Bill Marler

JANUARY 9, 2024

On January 8, the FDA Coordinated Outbreak Response & Evaluation (CORE) Network released its first annual report summarizing the investigations of foodborne outbreaks and adverse events in FDA-regulated human foods for the 2022 calendar year. In 2022, CORE evaluated 65 incidents, responded to 28 and issued advisories for 11. These numbers show a slight increase from 2021 when 59 incidents were evaluated with 19 responses and 10 advisories.

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Food Safety News

JANUARY 9, 2024

A decade ago, at a Korean railroad station, a tour guide directed a visiting reporter away from a small cafe, saying only “boshintang” was on the menu. The reporter later learned that “boshintang” is dog meat stew, which older Koreans consider traditional food and something of a delicacy. But younger South Koreans are more likely to have dogs as pets than for dinner, and this week, the South Korean National Assembly overwhelmingly voted to make the slaughter and sale of dogs for their meat ille

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Sculpture Hospitality

JANUARY 9, 2024

Running a successful bar isn’t just about delighting your customers, it’s also about managing inventory effectively. Here’s how to do it successfully.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 11, 2024

It doesn’t matter if you have been in the restaurant industry for a decade or are just starting out, running a successful restaurant can be a stressful task. Management takes on multiple jobs throughout the restaurant including hiring, marketing, maintaining the budget, operations and keeping customers and staff happy. When working in a restaurant, management must utilize a variety of skills to run a successful business.

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Bill Marler

JANUARY 11, 2024

According to the Gloucester County Health Department a food handler at an Olive Garden restaurant in Gloucester County tested positive for Hepatitis A. The employee at the Olive Garden at 1500 Almonesson Road in Deptford worked while infected between Dec. 26 and 30, according to the announcement. Hepatitis A is a viral illness with symptoms including abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, tiredness, poor appetite, jaundice and dark urine, county officials advised.

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Food Safety News

JANUARY 8, 2024

D&D Commodities Ltd. of Greeley, CO, is recalling one lot of 3-D® Pet Products Premium Parrot Food because of potential Salmonella contamination. Salmonella can affect animals eating the products and there is a risk to humans from handling contaminated pet products, especially if they have not thoroughly washed their hands after having contact with the products or any surfaces exposed to these products.

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Food Safety Tech

JANUARY 8, 2024

In the food processing and food service industry, glove wearing is meant to protect, not infect. That’s the theory, but not necessarily the reality. Over 100 billion protective gloves—over 90% of the national supply—are imported into the U.S. each year from factories scattered throughout Asia. A good proportion of the gloves are destined for a substantial proportion of the 700,000 workers in meat and poultry processing and fresh produce sectors, as well as a proportion of the 14 million workers

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 12, 2024

KIn the dynamic world of quick-service restaurants, innovation and adaptability are critical to evolve successfully in order to drive business growth with consumer preferences continuously changing. As a proud, second-generation Bojangles franchisees at Georgia Foods, my family and I have tapped into a distinctive strategy that has boosted our profitability across our 41 Bojangles locations – catering.

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Food Safety Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2024

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) recently published a guidance for animal feed business operators on the information required when submitting a request for approval of a feed detoxification process, which can be used to reduce undesirable substances in a feed product to comply regulations and allow it to be placed on the market.

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Food Safety News

JANUARY 10, 2024

With severe weather across the United States, public health officials are urging consumers to practice good food safety during power outages. One important thing to remember is that placing perishable food outside in snow does not provide the proper cooling to keep food safe. The Food and Drug Administration also lists the following food safety measures for those experiencing power outages.

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Food Safety Tech

JANUARY 9, 2024

On January 8, the FDA Coordinated Outbreak Response & Evaluation (CORE) Network released its first annual report summarizing the investigations of foodborne outbreaks and adverse events in FDA-regulated human foods for the 2022 calendar year. In 2022, CORE evaluated 65 incidents, responded to 28 and issued advisories for 11. These numbers show a slight increase from 2021 when 59 incidents were evaluated with 19 responses and 10 advisories.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 9, 2024

The foodservice industry is poised for some significant shifts in the new year as a result of changing consumer demand and rising trends being seen across the industry, but that said, there are simple, effective solutions for how operators and restaurants can stay ahead of these shifts. Prioritizing Healthy Living Wellness remains at the forefront of consumer lifestyle trends and continues to have a large impact on how people choose where and why to spend their capital.

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Food Safety Magazine

JANUARY 8, 2024

Scientists from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service (USDA’s ARS) have provided new insight into the ability of Salmonella to survive and adapt in food processing facilities through interactions with environmental biofilms.

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Food Safety News

JANUARY 10, 2024

The Food and Drug Administration has warned about particular scallops harvested from prohibited water that may be contaminated. The scallops were purchased by restaurants, distributors, and food retailers in Illinois, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania and may have been further distributed. According to the FDA, Intershell International Corp. received whole, live scallops from an unlicensed harvester and are believed to have been harvested from prohibited waters in Massachuset

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Foodservice Equipment Reports

JANUARY 11, 2024

Less than two full weeks into the new year, several industry companies are finding new partnerships. Among the latest to announce a deal is Tech24, which has acquired Chester, Va.-based 1-2-3 Equipment Solutions, a provider of HVAC, refrigeration and kitchen equipment maintenance, service and installation. The company primarily serves restaurant and hospitality customers across Virginia and North.

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Fast Casual

JANUARY 9, 2024

Stephanie Lind, founder of Elohi Marketing Strategies, reveals how consumer concerns over personal health and food waste should impact fast casual brands' menu strategies.

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Food Safety Magazine

JANUARY 9, 2024

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has released the CORE 2022 Annual Report —the first report of its kind—summarizing the investigations of foodborne illness outbreaks and adverse events involving FDA-regulated foods conducted by the Coordinated Outbreak Response and Evaluation (CORE) Network.

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Food Safety News

JANUARY 11, 2024

Ingomar Packing Co of Los Banos, CA, is recalling diced tomatoes because of foreign objects in the product, specifically plastic. According to the details posted by the FDA, the recall was initiated on Aug. 3, 2023, and is ongoing. The recalled products were distributed in the U.S. in California and Washington and distributed internationally to Japan.

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Foodservice Equipment Reports

JANUARY 11, 2024

Eric Santagato has been named the president of distribution business at Elverson, Pa.-based Singer Equipment Co. He will report to President and CEO Fred Singer. Santagato joined the dealer in April 2016 as a district sales manager in New Jersey, and most recently served as its VP of distribution sales. In that role, he unified the distribution sales organizations of M.

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FoodService Director

JANUARY 10, 2024

Since starting the program in 2016, the team has introduced students to a wide variety of local ingredients and has given them the chance to learn more about farmers who produce them.

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Food Safety Magazine

JANUARY 10, 2024

A recent report from the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Meetings on Microbiological Risk Assessment (JEMRA) provides an assessment of the efficacy of different control strategies for non-typhoidal Salmonella in broilers and chicken meat at primary production, processing, and post-processing.

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Food Safety News

JANUARY 9, 2024

More children are in the tally of those with elevated lead levels after eating certain brands of cinnamon applesauce. As of Jan. 8, the Food and Drug Administration has received 87 confirmed complaints in the outbreak, up from 82 on Dec. 26. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has also received more reports of children with elevated lead levels in their blood.

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