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New & Notable: TEAM Schostak Celebrates 40, AI in Food Service and Beachy Tech

Modern Restaurant Management

Schooner Capital led the round with follow-on investments from all major and strategic investors to-date, including Osage Venture Partners, Gordon Food Service’s innovation arm Relish Works and Nigel Morris. MarginEdge closed an oversubscribed, $18 million Series B investment to expand their exponential growth.

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A Food Safety Manifesto for the FDA – Updated

Bill Marler

Reform the food additives approval process to ensure new food additives are given adequate safety review. Enhance agency the agency’s food operations by re-organizing and centralize and streamline the agency’s operations, with direct accountability to the Commissioner. Side bar suggestion.

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Pandemic Reflections: What Lessons Has the Restaurant Industry Learned?, Part Two

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In addition, the state carved out a special 45 percent increase to $20 per hour for fast-food employees. in a full-service restaurant will jump to a fast-food operation for the $3.50 The bulk of these roles will come from the food services, including positions like restaurant cooks and fast-food workers.

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A Salmonella, Hepatitis A and E. coli weekend

Bill Marler

Consumers are still advised to not eat, and retailers and food service establishments to not sell or serve, any romaine lettuce harvested from the Salinas growing region. Food service and institutional food operators should not sell or serve the fruit mix with cantaloupe, honeydew, pineapple, and grapes prepared by Tailor Cut Produce.

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What is it with Cantaloupe and Bacteria?

Bill Marler

Foodservice and institutional food operators should not sell or serve the fruit mix with cantaloupe, honeydew, pineapple, and grapes prepared by Tailor Cut Produce.

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MRM Franchise Feed: Bad Ass Gets Bigger and New Prototype for Bagel Boss

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A&W is seeing a big uptick in interest from c-store operators, CEO Kevin Bazner said. Some are looking to convert non-branded food operations to A&W, while others are exploring leasing space to A&W franchisees. C-store unit sales through September are up 11 percent, following a six percent annual increase last year.

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New Zealand data shows an increase in foodborne infections

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It was published by New Zealand Food Safety (NZFS), a Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) unit. Most 27 outbreaks, with 253 cases in 2022, were linked to commercial food operators, and only five were associated with food prepared in consumer homes. Laboratory testing of the samosa was positive for Bacillus spp.