Month: August 2012

Simplify your holiday small plates, appetizer or bar menu by offering customized cheese specialties featuring Sugar Brook bulk cold pack cheese.  These savory artisan products are versatile ingredients made by combining Wisconsin Cheddar or Swiss cheese with fresh cream. Sugar Brook products for foodservice are easily adapted to enhance your creative ideas, and come in flavors that complement casual dining menus. …

Pubs and taverns are experiencing a popularity boom with their welcomingly casual atmosphere and carefully crafted food. Menus feature house-cured meats, farmstead cheeses, hearth-baked breads and farm fresh produce. During Fresh California Avocado season, Chef Hoss Zaré serves up dishes from his native Persia interpreted with California ingredients and sensibilities at Zaré at the Fly Trap (San Francisco CA). …

PRO*ACT, America’s leading distributor of fresh produce to the foodservice industry, has raised more than $34,000 through its Foundation to help the Red Robin Foundation Aurora Theater Victims Fund. Red Robin Gourmet Burgers has been a PRO*ACT customer since 2007. Eight team members from the Red Robin unit on Havana St. in Aurora were in the Aurora theater at the time of the shooting. One team member died and seven were hospitalized, some with very serious injuries. Red Robin Foundation plans to assist team members with medical bills and lost wages, as well as provide support to the family of the deceased. …

Yesterday, probably the world’s most well-known aphrodisiac cuisine, the oyster, celebrated its very own holiday, National Oyster Day.  For those looking for an amorous evening it’s no longer necessary to slurp down some oysters in mignonette sauce.  Chefs have paid homage to this tasty mollusk with elegant creations and some surprising ingredients. …

The National Restaurant Association (NRA) today launched its ServSafe Manager Online Course, 6th Edition – the web-based version of its industry-leading ServSafe Manager Book, 6th Edition training program. The newly recalibrated ServSafe 6th Edition content includes optimized, focused content created by the industry, for the industry. The ServSafe Manager Book, 6th Edition for classroom training was introduced in April. …