Food Service News In Brief The Rhode Island Hospitality Association is working with the Providence-Warwick Convention & Visitors Bureau on a marketing program to promote a “Do Over Day” for Valentine’s Day for Saturday, April 18. Snowstorms and cold weather dampened the weekend’s usual strong sales for restaurants and hospitality companies in the region. […]
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Mass. AG Drafts E-Cigarette Regulations, And More…
Convenience Store News In Brief According to the Massachusetts Food Association, new Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healy has released revised tobacco regulations that seek to regulate e-cigarettes as a tobacco product, placing the same restrictions on their purchase and use as those on tobacco cigarettes and also keeping them from being sold to minors. A […]
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Wakefern General Counsel Is An Award Finalist, And More…
Supermarket News In Brief Wakefern Food Corp. General Counsel Allison Berger is a finalist in the 2015 NJBIZ General Counsel of the Year Program. The awards program is produced by NJBIZ, New Jersey’s business news publication. The program honors New Jersey’s general counsels and chief legal officers for the role they play in making their […]
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Groups Develop FoodKeeper For Food Waste Practices
To help consumers be better stewards of their food resources, the Food Marketing Institute (FMI) has joined with U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and Cornell University’s Department of Food Science to create the FoodKeeper—a publication and online database providing information about the shelf life of food products. This year, the partners made that information even more […]
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The Latest In Pizza Ordering: Domino’s Smart TV
Domino’s Pizza announced last week that customers can order pizza via their Samsung Smart TV, a new offer that’s part of the pizza chain’s “AnyWare” suite of technology. The announcement marks the first time that ordering is available on any Smart TV. This innovation is part of Domino’s new suite of technology that gives customers […]
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Wegmans Receives Top Score In ‘Fresh’ Survey
Wegmans, Publix, Trader Joe’s, Whole Foods Market and Market Basket received good scores in customer satisfaction ratings for “America’s Best, Freshest Supermarkets,” a survey conducted by Consumer Reports. Supermarkets were rated for overall freshness and quality of produce, meats, poultry, bakery items and store prepared foods as well as staff courtesy and a clean shopping […]
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Walmart Asks Suppliers To Redirect Efforts To Cut Prices, And More…
New Channels News In Brief… Walmart is asking suppliers to forego their marketing investments with the retailer and instead focus on cutting costs on products so it can better compete against other retailers… President Obama vetoed a measure passed by a Republican-run Congress, which blocked the National Labor Relations Board from streamlining the process for […]
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Ferrara Plans To Increase Candy Production For Walmart, And More….
Convenience Store News In Brief… Confectioner manufacturer Ferrara Candy Co. plans to increase manufacturing capacity as it plans to expand the number of products it supplies to Walmart… According to Beverage Marketing Corp., a market research company, the U.S. market for beverages grew in 2014 after sales were basically flat in 2013. One of the […]