Retail & FoodService

Chef David Kramer, Associate Professor of Culinary Arts at the College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn, Ill., is one of six chefs and foodservice professionals nationwide to win a 2012 United Fresh Produce Excellence in Foodservice Award. Nominated by Chicago-based Testa Produce, Inc., Kramer won in the Business in Industry & Colleges category. The awards program, created by the United Fresh Produce Association and sponsored by PRO*ACT, honors chefs and their companies for innovative and influential use of produce in the culinary arts.
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The team of Eric Stein, M.S., R.D., a chef-instructor at the Kendall College School of Culinary Arts, and Jaime Mestan, C.S.C., a Kendall College culinary alum (08) and research chef at Ed Miniat, Inc., in South Holland, Ill., took first place in the inaugural Professional Culinology Competition, March 23 in San Antonio, Texas, held in conjunction with the Research Chefs Associations (RCA) Annual Conference and Culinology Expo. …

The Vollrath Company, the world’s leading manufacturer of foodservice equipment and smallwares, introduces its 2012-2013 product catalog with the company’s most current offerings of prep, cook and serve solutions. The latest edition of the catalog includes more than 20 new and extended product lines, as well as several expanded product categories. …

An unprecedented wave of new grocery competition in Sacramento is tightening the squeeze on longtime industry leaders Raley's and Safeway, suggesting a dramatic reshaping of the local market. …

Earth Fare will open its first store in Kentucky in the northeast Louisville shopping center in late summer, said Becky Norton, general manager of The Summit. Earth Fare, which is based in Asheville, N.C., dubs itself “the healthy supermarket.” …