With an aggressive expansion and remodeling plan underway, Casey’s General Stores is in firm control of its future and sits atop the list of Chains to Watch in 2013. By: Erin Rigik, associate editor. Casey’s General Stores has come a long way in two years. The convenience store chain is branching into new territory, pushing [...]
2012 Regional Franchisee of the Year Award goes to Sequin, Texas business owner. SUBWAY restaurant chain has named Larry Gerosa of Seguin, Texas as the recipient of its 2012 Regional Franchisee of the Year award for single-unit owners from the chain’s domestic developed markets. The award was presented during the company’s recent convention held in [...]
New York State is now home to almost 30 Chester’s Chicken locations. Chester’s has opened its latest restaurant inside Caz Mini Mart’s newly renovated convenience store located in Buffalo, N.Y. in the Riverside neighborhood. Customers can enjoy delicious hand breaded fried chicken throughout the day for lunch and dinner, seven days a week. Caz Mini [...]
Calorie signs, a new app, and more healthful options are headed for McDonald’s. McDonald’s plans to begin posting calorie counts on all its menus next week — a move that will likely pressure other QSRs to follow suit. At the same time, the company introduced several menu additions aimed at making its offerings more healthful, [...]
The Champs Chicken Wing Bar is the newest concept from Pro Food Systems. It brings together high quality marinated jumbo chicken wings, marinated boneless wings and a full line of premium sauces with the best technology in self service hot food application. The Champs Chicken Wing Bar will allow foodservice operators to capture quick-service lunch [...]
The new regional headquarters building will also include an expanded state of the art commercial kitchen. Manitowoc Foodservice is investing in expanded manufacturing and has opened a new operating company headquarters for the Americas Ovens operating company at its Cleveland, Ohio location. “The consolidation of our Americas ovens manufacturing and related business activities in one [...]
There are few bargains when it comes to purchasing the right cooking equipment. Functionality and practicality must coincide with an affordable price tag. By Marilyn Odesser-Torpey, Associate Editor Just like the latest luxury car, a shiny, new piece of foodservice equipment can be hard to resist. But Brian Tucker, foodservice director for Lake, Fla.-based S [...]
Burgers, brats and sausages continue to drive sales among core convenience store consumers. By Howard Riell, Associate Editor Convenience dining is on the rise and the demand for sandwiches is jumping. Americans’ love of burgers, sausage and brats is creating plenty of opportunity for convenience stores, where lunch and dinner solutions anchor the menu. The [...]
With an increasing store count, ongoing redesigns and a renewed focus on foodservice, Love’s Travel Stops & Country Stores has transformed its business model. By Erin Rigik, Associate Editor. Love’s Travel Stops & Country Stores is set to begin construction on its 300th location this August. As it prepares for this milestone, the travel stop [...]
Uncle Ben’s created the perfect holiday comfort dish available in two easy-to-prepare varieties: traditional white bread and classic cornbread stuffings. Both new mixes have an ideal blend of seasonings, breadcrumbs, grains and veggies. The stuffings go well with Miniature Roast Turkey Dinner Sliders. C-stores can purchase Uncle Ben’s stuffing mix from Oct. 1 through Dec. [...]
A federal program is threatening milk and ice cream prices, which could impact c-store sales. By Howard Riell, Associate Editor. Even with all of the options that packaged goods manufacturers give consumers today—brands, flavors, package sizes, price points, promotions and much more—ice cream has remained a pretty simple retail category. Enter the federal government. In [...]
Ready Pac Foods makes a large recall on sliced apples sold in c-stores, supermarkets and fast food chains. Ready Pac Foods Inc. recalled apple slices and pieces sold at fast food chains such as McDonald’s or Burger King, supermarkets and convenience stores because of possible listeria contamination. Ready Pac Foods reported it is recalling 293,488 [...]
A market study takes a close look at the generational differences in eating habits of Americans to help the retail and foodservice industries Packaged Facts released a report that analyzes America’s mealtime tendencies and eating habits. The study titled “How We Eat: Retail and Foodservice Opportunities in When and Where America Eats” reports that age [...]
“Millennials are a critical consumer group to the foodservice industry, and finding ways to market to them can be difficult because they have high and varied expectations,” says Sara Monnette, director of consumer research for Technomic. Consumers’ positive outlook of the future indicates that they may increase spending on foodservice within the next year, according [...]
A foodservice company recalls a limited number of its snack and lunch products to protect consumers from possible Lysteria cases. Reichel Foods Inc., a healthy snack food company based in Minnesota, issued a voluntary recall for a variety of its products. NACS released a report that said several of the company’s products have the potential [...]