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The future of restaurant loyalty

Restobiz

Loyalty has always been important in the foodservice industry, but it has really taken a front seat in the last few years as restaurants continue to recover and competition remains fierce. Customers are getting savvy about what they are looking for from restaurants, what loyalty programs should look like, and they are voicing their concerns […] The post The future of restaurant loyalty appeared first on Restobiz.

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Please don’t drink raw milk – at least don’t feed in to children

Bill Marler

Public health officials in Utah are investigating a cluster of illnesses associated with drinking “raw” (meaning unpasteurized) milk. To date, Salt Lake County Health Department (SLCoHD) has identified 10 people in the county with campylobacteriosis, an illness caused by the bacterium Campylobacter. Eight of the 10 people infected confirmed that they drank raw milk prior to their illness.

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10 School Food Renegades Who Are Stirring Up Change

Chef Ann Foundation

Across the nation, school food changemakers are challenging status quos to move us closer to a world where all children not only have access to healthy and satisfying meals every day, but are equipped to cultivate positive relationships with food for themselves, their communities, and the planet. Get to know a few of these inspiring School Food Renegades.

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Pure + Simple dining program tackles food allergies

Food Management

Metz Culinary Management’s allergen-free meal concept addresses the top nine food allergens: eggs, peanuts, tree nuts, sesame, fish, shellfish, soy, dairy and wheat.

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Food & Beverage Industry Report 2024

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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The Ozempic Effect, How to Make Groceries Affordable Again + More

Food + Tech Connect

Image Credit: Wall Street Journal 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. The rise of weight-loss drugs like Ozempic is causing ripples throughout the food industry, with nearly 7% of the population expected to use such medications by 2035, potentially transforming the way we approach nutrition.

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Using gift cards to up your restaurant sales

Restobiz

Gift-giving can happen all year round, of course, but typically sales for gift cards start to ramp up from here on out. November and December traditionally make up about 50 per cent of gift card sales for the year, so this is the perfect time to look at how you plan to up sales through […] The post Using gift cards to up your restaurant sales appeared first on Restobiz.

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USDA unveils new school meal grant opportunities, training partnership

Food Management

Department is partnering with the Urban School Food Alliance to provide trainings and tools to school districts, accepting applications for the next round of Farm to School Grants and will be accepting applications for the School Food Systems Transformation Challenge Sub-Grants beginning in November.

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How Technology Is Transforming Restaurant Checkouts

Modern Restaurant Management

When you ask your diners how they would like to pay, when was the last time they handed over physical cash? Perhaps you don’t even accept cash anymore? You wouldn’t be alone; well-known brands including Prezzo, Itsu and Côte Brasserie have all made the decision to go card-only for good as a means to reduce costs and speed up customer service.

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Children sick with E. coli after visiting an animal exhibit at the Appalachian Fairgrounds

Bill Marler

NORTHEAST REGIONAL HEALTH OFFICE, DR. DAVID KIRSCHKE, MD : The Northeast Regional Health Office and the Sullivan County Health Department are investigating several cases of illness caused by Shiga-toxin-producing E. coli (STEC) among elementary school children in Washington and Sullivan counties. These illnesses occurred after some classes visited an animal exhibit at the Appalachian Fairgrounds on September 26 and 27.

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Table Turnover Rate in Your Restaurant: How to Improve & Seat Incomplete Parties

Lavu

What is Restaurant Table Turnover Rate? Table turnover rate measures of how often a table is occupied by a new group of guests during a specific period of time. It is calculated by dividing the number of guests served by the number of tables available during that time period. For example, if a restaurant has 10 tables and serves 30 guests in a four-hour period, its table turnover would be 3.

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Sodexo Live! scares up creative Halloween treats for zoo event

Food Management

Sodexo Live! spooky themed menu items support the Indianapolis Zoo’s annual ZooBoo festivities.

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How Employers Can Support Employee Mental Health

Modern Restaurant Management

In today's workplace, the significance of addressing employee mental health has become increasingly crucial. The well-being of employees directly impacts their productivity, engagement, and overall satisfaction. Employers play a pivotal role in creating a supportive environment that fosters mental well-being and offers necessary resources. Ahead of World Mental Health Day on October 10, Adams Keegan staff have reported a dramatic increase of client calls concerning mental health.

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What are the Different Types of Franchising?

Sculpture Hospitality

The world of franchising offers a diverse range of opportunities for entrepreneurs to expand or kick-start their business endeavors. When you delve into the realm of franchising, you will discover various models, each catering to different business needs and objectives.

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California Becomes First State to Ban Four Harmful Chemicals in Food

Food Safety News

Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the California Food Safety Act , the first law in the U.S. to ban four harmful chemicals from candy, cereal, soda, and other processed food sold and produced in the state. Assemblymember Jesse Gabriel (D-Woodland Hills) authored the law, which ends the food uses of brominated vegetable oil , potassium bromate , propylparaben and Red Dye No. 3.

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Trending this week: USDA unveils new school meal grant opportunities, training partnership

Food Management

This week on Food Management the top story was students are psyched about vending machine meal delivery. In a community east of Baton Rouge, junior high and high school students queue up at vending machines for lunch.

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Decoding Digital Barriers in Restaurant Loyalty Initiatives

Modern Restaurant Management

Running a restaurant isn't just about serving great meals. It's about consistently delivering top-notch quality, exceptional service, and an unforgettable experience. For franchise owners, maintaining uniform excellence across all outlets is key. This highlights the importance of efficient systems to monitor and uphold these standards. Moreover, as the hospitality sector becomes increasingly competitive, tapping into the nuanced aspects of customer behavior becomes necessary.

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What is Safety Stock, and Should Your Business Carry it?

Sculpture Hospitality

As an entrepreneur in the hospitality industry, you've mastered the art of juggling numerous moving parts to ensure a seamless experience for your patrons. But amidst the whirlwind of activity, there's one critical factor that can make or break your establishment's success - safety stock.

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The dark effects of the sun on plastic drinking bottles

Food Safety News

This may be hard to swallow, but the drinking bottle that you are dutifully carrying around with you all day to stay properly hydrated may be delivering more than water into your body. The most commonly used plastic water bottle is made of polyethylene terephthalate, or PET, which is indicated on the bottle with a stamp of the number 1 surrounded by arrows.

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FM On Demand with Tara Fitzpatrick: U of Nevada, Reno’s Chef Jon Buchholtz doesn’t know blackjack, but he does know campus dining

Food Management

He's not a gambler, despite living in Reno, and he doesn’t roll the dice on campus foodservice, either, preferring well-researched, feedback-based changes and carefully implemented trends and marketing.

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Surgical Pricing Strategies: How QSRs Can Navigate Inflation

Modern Restaurant Management

Has consumer dining behavior returned to pre-pandemic levels? Many standard indices say yes. While it’s understandable to believe everything is back to normal – according to our QSR monthly trends, August 2023 traffic was down just half a percent compared to 2022 – the landscape has taken a seismic shift. Using the QSR traffic and sales data Revenue Management Solutions (RMS) has been gathering for 25-plus years, our analysts recently completed an exhaustive comparison of pre a

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California Food Safety Act Signed Into Law, Officially Banning Four Toxic Additives by 2027

Food Safety Magazine

The California Food Safety Act —statewide legislation that bans the sale of foods containing red dye 3, potassium bromate, brominated vegetable oil, and propylparaben—was signed into California law by Governor Gavin Newsom on October 7, 2023.

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State Fair Petting Zoo Blamed for New Mexico’s Outbreak of Cryptosporidiosis

Food Safety News

The New Mexico Department of Health (NMDOH) is investigating a statewide outbreak of Cryptosporidiosis associated with exposure to petting zoo livestock at the New Mexico State Fair, which took place from September 7-17, 2023. There have been three patients with laboratory-confirmed Cryptosporidiosis infections and an additional 15 clinically compatible cases who report exposure to the NM State Fair.

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FM On Demand with Tara Fitzpatrick: U of Nevada, Reno’s Chef Jon Buccholtz doesn’t know blackjack, but he does know campus dining

Food Management

He's not a gambler, despite living in Reno, and he doesn’t roll the dice on campus foodservice, either, preferring well-researched, feedback-based changes and carefully implemented trends and marketing.

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Is 6 the New 8?

Modern Restaurant Management

A blurring of work and personal schedules is among the factors driving a shift toward earlier dining times at fine dining restaurants, according to a new report from Placer.ai. Other factors include the continuing work-from-home trend and the increasing population of younger families in urban residential locations. The team analyzed dining trends by hour between June and August of this year and compared them to the same time framed in 2019 after Union Square Hospitality Group Founder Danny Ma

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€30 Million Worth of Illicit Food Products Seized in EU, Many Relabeled Expired Goods

Food Safety Magazine

Europol has drawn attention to an increasing trend of food fraudsters relabeling expired goods after operation OPSON Europe—a Europol-INTERPOL joint operation targeting fake and substandard food and beverages—found relabeled expired products at an “unprecedented scale.” Overall, €30 million euros worth of illicit foods weighing 8,000 tons were seized between December 2022 and April 2023.

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Texas company recalls 5 tons of burritos because of Listeria contamination

Food Safety News

Don Miguel Foods of Dallas, TX, is recalling 10,642 pounds of frozen ready-to-eat carne asada burritos after testing showed Listeria monocytogenes, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service. “FSIS is concerned that some products may be in consumers’ freezers. Consumers who have purchased these products are urged not to consume them.

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5 tech things: Smoothie-making robots debut at two California community colleges

Food Management

This and Instacart partnering with Mount Sinai on proving fresh groceries to post-hospital patients are some of the tech-related developments you may have missed recently.

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The Cost of Doing Business: Hidden Payment Fee Red Flags

Modern Restaurant Management

Both legacy restaurants and newer establishments can agree that the literal cost of doing business from payment processing can severely hamper revenue growth from the first sale. There is nothing more ubiquitous than cashless payments, but the ease of credit card use for a customer can create a significant cost for restaurants through exorbitant payment processing fees.

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Ep. 155. Dr. Barbara Masters: Food Safety Regulatory Policy—More Than One Side to the Story

Food Safety Magazine

In this episode of Food Safety Matters , we are joined by Dr. Barbara Masters—Vice President of Regulatory Policy, Food, and Agriculture at Tyson Foods Inc.—about food safety policy and leadership in the meat and poultry industry, informed by her 34 years of experience in the sector across veterinary, regulatory, advisory, and corporate roles.

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Baby food manufacture warned by FDA after consumer complaint of infant botulism prompts inspection

Food Safety News

As part of its enforcement activities, the Food and Drug Administration sends warning letters to entities under its jurisdiction. Some letters are not posted for public view until weeks or months after they are sent. Business owners have 15 days to respond to FDA warning letters. Warning letters often are not issued until a company has been given months to years to correct problems.

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