Month: July 2018

As much of the U.S. restaurant industry continues to struggle with sluggish customer visits, the fast casual channel continues to grow. Visits to fast casual restaurants, which are quick service restaurant (QSR) concepts that offer more service, higher quality food, and have a higher average check size than other fast food restaurants, have grown 6 percent annually over the last five years, stemming in large part from store openings, reports The NPD Group, a leading global information company. …

The “Meat Your Beef” farm tour offered chefs and foodservice professionals the opportunity to do just that, to meet their beef. A group of 21 chefs from the suburbs of Philadelphia, PA attended a full-day beef tour in the south-central part of Pennsylvania on June 26. The chef attendees source their beef from Indian Ridge Provisions, a further processor and distributor of proteins based in Telford, PA. …