Month: August 2012

After huge success in 2012, leading food distributor and foodservice provider Glazier Foods Company, is proud to announce their participating sponsorship of the 2nd annual Galveston Restaurant Week taking place January 13-26, 2013. The two week event will not only showcase the finest Gulf Coast seafood and some of Texas’ most mouth-watering restaurants, but will most importantly be helping to feed Galveston County’s hungry with donations benefiting Galveston County Food Bank, based in Texas City. …

Among 12 different types of restaurants tracked by CHD Expert, full service family-style restaurants, cafes and diners experienced the most net growth with 3 percent more units, followed by delivery and take-away (only) Limited service restaurants (2.5 percent) and fast casual restaurants (2.4 percent). Therefore, if slow economic times tend to put a damper on risk-taking, then new data on restaurant units confirms that consumers and restaurant operators are staying in the 'comfort zone.' …

Foster Farms’ new Lower-Sodium, 100% Whole Grain Chicken Corn Dog earned the Parent Tested Parent Approved (PTPA) Winner’s Seal of Approval, crowning a new school lunch offering that parents and children agree on. With more than 40,000 parent testers, PTPA Media is North America’s largest volunteer parent testing community and is regularly highlighted on national morning shows. …

Consumers may not have the means to travel the world, but that hasn't dampened their desire to experience new ethnic cuisines. Unfortunately, chain restaurants aren't meeting current consumer demand for new foods and flavors. Only a quarter of consumers polled for a recent Technomic survey say they are satisfied with the availability of ethnic offerings at limited-service (23 percent) and full-service (28 percent) chains, which translates into opportunities for operators to differentiate their menus and gain market share with globally-inspired offerings. …