Retail & FoodService

After combing through hundreds of submissions, conducting a nationwide People's Choice online vote and hosting three high-stakes cook-off events in San Francisco, Seattle and Chicago, Safeway (NYSE: SWY) is bringing the "Search for Our Next Chef" Competition to an exhilarating close. …

Customer service reigns supreme at Stew Leonard's, a micro-chain of fresh-food stores within a stone's throw of New York City in suburban and exurban New York and Connecticut. Operating in a realm where the customer is right even when she's wrong, this third-generation family business has blossomed from a small dairy store founded in 1969 that carried just eight items and had seven employees into a four-store operation carrying 2,000 items with annual sales of $400 million, nearly 2,000 employees and a ten-year run on Fortune's "100 Best Companies to Work for in America," a who's who of employee-centric businesses. …

Foodservice organizations can now look to Sealed Air as apartner uniquely positioned to protect, enhance and differentiate their food and beverage operations via a complete portfolio of products and services unprecedented in the foodservice industry. …

SPE® Certified, a unique certification and consulting program designed to enhance the nutritional quality of meals without compromising taste, will make its official debut on May 5th, 2012 at Chicago's National Restaurant Show. Just as LEED certification has become a symbol of sustainable building, SPE aims to become the premier culinary nutritional consulting firm and the most trusted, independent food certification for healthy dining — a new, simple way for foodservice operators to address consumer concerns about sustainability and personal health. …

Humans have been cooking with fire since the dawn of civilization. In the years between our culinary beginnings and today, the art of cooking with fire has been refined and expanded to include grilling, barbecue, smoking, roasting, rotisserie and wood-burning ovens.
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