Month: October 2012

Frontline's Fresh & Waste Cooking Oil Systems Work Together-Hands-Free-With Touch Of A Button

October 3, 2012 Frontline International

Frontline International, Inc., one of this year’s winners of the National Restaurant Association’s 2012 Kitchen Innovations Award, offers Smart Oil Management solutions that work together as a completely hands-free system for filling fryers with fresh oil and draining waste oil from fryers. Automatically, with just a push of a button, the fryer is filled with oil. Push another button, and used oil is automatically drained from the fryer and goes directly to a waste oil containment tank. No messy pouring oil or toting buckets of hot grease. Your employees will never touch cooking oil again. …

NPD: Q2 Continues Four-Year Streak Of Full Service Restaurant Visit Losses

October 3, 2012 The NPD Group, Inc.

Consumers pulled back from visits to midscale and casual dining restaurants in the April, May, and June quarter continuing a four-year streak of visit losses for the full service segment, according to The NPD Group, a leading market research company. The +1 percent growth in quick service restaurant (QSR) traffic compared to the same period last year offset the full service losses to keep total industry traffic stable in the second calendar quarter, reports NPD’s foodservice market research. …

Pork Checkoff Accepts Nominations For 2013 Board Of Directors

October 3, 2012 The National Pork Board

The Pork Checkoff’s Board of Directors is accepting nominations to fill five, three-year terms. In addition, candidates are being sought for two open seats on the Board’s Nominating Committee to serve two-year terms starting in 2013. Nominees may be submitted by state pork producer associations, farm organizations or anyone who pays the Pork Checkoff, which includes pork producers and pork importers. …

Beef Recall Ups Prices, Business For Ontario Butchers

October 3, 2012 Staff Reporter, CBC News

A Canada-wide beef recall has boosted business — and wholesale prices — for some butchers in Ontario. …

New Rules Allow Some Japanese Beef In U.S.

October 3, 2012 Larry Olmsted, Forbes

Earlier this year I wrote at length about a very pricey food scam, the widespread sale of fake Kobe beef in this country. In my multi-part series I explained that for the past few years the USDA has completely banned the import of all Japanese beef, Kobe or otherwise, fresh or frozen, bone or boneless. This situation changed drastically last month when the USDA relaxed its rules and allowed the limited importation of some Japanese beef. …