Chefs Differentiate With New, Bold Ingredients From The Chef’s Garden

January 24, 2013 The Chef's Garden

One product category that is in high demand from our culinary friends this winter is Bold Ingredients: a new, whimsical collection of fluorescent vegetables and “greens.” Learn more about Bold Ingredients along with other exceptional flavors available to chefs this season in The Chef's Garden's Winter Menu Planning Guide.

Au Bon Pain Continues Move To Eggs From Cage-Free Hens

January 24, 2013 Au Bon Pain

Au Bon Pain (ABP), America’s café bakery and a leader in the fast casual restaurant category, announced further developments in its continuing commitments to animal welfare and humane treatment.

US Total Restaurant Count Increases By 4,442 Units Over Last Year, Reports NPD

January 24, 2013 The NPD Group

There were 4,442 more restaurants in the U.S. in fall 2012 than there were in fall 2011, according to a recent U.S. restaurant census conducted by The NPD Group, a leading global information company. The total number of U.S. restaurants is now 616,008, a .7 percent increase over last year, based on NPD’s Fall 2012 ReCount®, which is a count of commercial restaurant locations in the United States compiled in the spring and fall each year.

Texans’ J.J. Watt Inks Solo Sponsorship Deal With H-E-B

Houston Texans' superstar defensive lineman J.J. Watt, who gobbled up more than his fair share of helpless opposing quarterbacks this past season, will bring another of his prodigious appetites into play now that he has signed on as a spokesman for H-E-B Grocery Co.

The Failure Of Tesco's Fresh & Easy: Diverse Voices & 'Déjà Vu All Over Again'

Our piece, "Twenty Lessons Learned From Tesco’s Fresh & Easy Failure," brought many responses. Edna St. Vincent Millay was among the first women to receive the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. She advised that “It is not true that life is one damn thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over.” Which is pretty much what seems to have happened here.