Features
More please! Hungry American business people increase spending on food
by S.A. Whitehead — Food Editor, Net World Media Group
American workers are clearly hungry. And today, another report from the business dining sector shows just how ravenous we are when we're on the road or just…
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New report predicts the road ahead for food service market
by S.A. Whitehead — Food Editor, Net World Media Group
A new analysis of the food service industry by Technavio shows that over the next four years the food service industry will grow almost 3½ percent overall…
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Commodities: Markets fluctuating, pizza stocks down
by S.A. Whitehead — Food Editor, Net World Media Group
Pizza commodities were a mixed bag of good and bad news last week.
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3 steps to cutting 1 huge expense
Legal hacks of credit card fees may seem complicated at first, but once understanding the three basic components of payment processing statements, they become…
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How can a 3D-printed pizza change the world?
by S.A. Whitehead — Food Editor, Net World Media Group
Yes, 3D printed pizzas are pretty cool, but talk to the people behind this food-printing robot and you will find it could also be a real life-changing addition…
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Commodities: Pizza stocks improving
by S.A. Whitehead — Food Editor, Net World Media Group
Overall, it was not a bad week for pizza restaurateurs on the market. While cheese and wheat prices continued to rise, that was offset last week by falling…
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Menu-labeling enforcement: Lessons learned from Subway
by S.A. Whitehead — Food Editor, Net World Media Group
Nearly 20 years ago, Subway led the charge to put nutritional information about its menu items out in the open. With the May 2017 deadline fast approaching for…
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Innovative Upstarts Part 4 - Mooyah Burgers, Fries & Shakes shakes up the burger business with a burger for EVERYbody
by S.A. Whitehead — Food Editor, Net World Media Group
Whether customers eat meat, poultry or only vegetables, Mooyah Burgers, Fries & Shakes wants them all in its fold of followers.
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Innovative Upstarts Part 3 — Slim Chickens finds chicken biz is anything BUT slim pickings
by S.A. Whitehead — Food Editor, Net World Media Group
In the hotly contested chicken sector of food service, one relatively new player is showing competitors how it's done, increasing sales by 50 percent last year…
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Commodities: Savings to be had on gas, wheat
by S.A. Whitehead — Food Editor, Net World Media Group
Cheese prices continued their ascent on the commodities market last week, but there were savings to be had on most other restaurant necessities.
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The case for sustainability: 4 considerations for restaurants
All too often businesses, including restaurants, take an incomplete view of what sustainability entails and the investment necessary to generate a strong ROI.
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3 ways Chipotle can avoid blowing its reputation
by Cherryh Cansler — Editor, FastCasual.com
Chipotle's latest scandal is proof that bad things happen to great brands. And keep happening.
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Innovative Upstarts Part 2 - Toppers: A cocky brand that dares to take on the big pizza guys
by S.A. Whitehead — Food Editor, Net World Media Group
Scrappy anti-corporate brand, Toppers Pizza, is almost daily delivering a box full of attitude to the older more iconic pie-makers in this sector.
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Innovative upstarts: In the sandwich category, Which Wich has it 'in the bag' (Part 1)
by S.A. Whitehead — Food Editor, Net World Media Group
When Jeff Sinelli founded his Which Wich sandwich chain, it was probably destined to have something a little offbeat about it after his success with a…
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GE sells off restaurant assets of lending arm in massive 3-way deal
by S.A. Whitehead — Food Editor, Net World Media Group
GE Capital U.S. is selling the bulk of its restaurant financing assets, which are worth about $1.4 billion.
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Friday's Brexit left most pizza stocks relatively unchanged
by S.A. Whitehead — Food Editor, Net World Media Group
The week that ended with the market-shaking news of Brexit, seems to have left pizza stocks relatively unchanged, though wheat commodity prices dropped sharply…
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The start-up and the old-timer: A tale of 2 pizza chains
by S.A. Whitehead — Food Editor, Net World Media Group
Longtime pizza chain, Hungry Howie's and relative newcomer, MidiCi, take very different approaches to the category but still have something very fundamental in…
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National Retail Federation asks U.S. House to put OT regulation 'on pause'
by S.A. Whitehead — Food Editor, Net World Media Group
The House Small Business Committee this week got an earful from the National Retail Federation on the Federal overtime regulations set to become effective Dec.
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Americans have lots of new-found love for fast food, but still smitten with full-service
by S.A. Whitehead — Food Editor, Net World Media Group
Americans are feeling the love a little more these days for fast food, according to this year's customer satisfaction survey and index for the food service…
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Harris Poll forewarns of potential upheaval due to upcoming OT regulation
by S.A. Whitehead — Food Editor, Net World Media Group
Americans have a hard time putting work away. In a new Harris Poll, most said it's at least partly because they have too much to do to in an eight-hour day.
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