Marydale DeBor, an associate administrator at the Yale School of Medicine, teaches students what she believes to be the key ingredient to health, disease prevention and recovery: hospital partnerships with foodservice. DeBor spoke with FoodService Director about hospital foodservice’s role in healing…READ MORE
KEEP READINGMcDonald’s is an huge force in the fast-food industry – and it’s just getting more powerful. Last quarter, 32 per cent of all quick-service restaurant visits were to McDonald’s locations, according to xAd’s report on foot traffic trends, which used the location-based marketing firm’s geo-boundary technology to gauge the foot traffic of 12 of the biggest quick-service restaurants. For comparison, the chain with the next largest slice of the foot traffic pie was Starbucks, coming in at 11 per cent…READ MORE
KEEP READINGWith much of the country slipping in and out of heat waves this summer, smart foodservice operations are finding novel ways to cool down their kitchens. Here are some of the more unique techniques they’re trying as the mercury climbs…READ MORE
KEEP READINGAmericans say they feel bad about the 130 billion pounds of food (approx. 5,896 crore kilograms) the nation wastes every year. But not badly enough to do anything about it…READ MORE
KEEP READINGUnilever Plc said it has agreed to buy U.S.-based men’s grooming brand Dollar Shave Club in a deal that would expand the consumer goods group’s catalogue of personal care products…READ MORE
KEEP READINGPunjab State Cooperative Milk Producers’ Federation (Milkfed), has decided to raise the price of milk marketed under the Verka brand by Rs 1 per pouch from August 2…READ MORE
KEEP READINGBaba Ramdev’s Patanjali Yogpeeth emerged as the only bidder in the second round of tenders for developing a food park on 250 acres in Mihan. Only two bidders had turned up when the first round took place last week…READ MORE
KEEP READINGMcDonald’s sales are soaring after years of declines. Sales at restaurants open at least a year jumped 6.2 per cent globally, including a 5.4 per cent increase in the US, in the most recent quarter. That’s the third straight quarter of increases after two years of declines. The company has finally turned business around by making a couple key changes to the menu, such as adding breakfast all day and offering new value options…READ MORE
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