Month: August 2014

Brinker International, Inc. (NYSE: EAT) awarded three dedicated supplier partners with the annual Supplier Partner of the Year Award, the company’s highest honor. Through their respective services, these businesses continuously work to support Brinker’s brands, reduce costs and execute integral company initiatives. …

Buckhead Beef commissioned TriFactor Systems to provide various boxed beef conveyor system and sortation concepts with associated budget pricing for consideration and feedback from all stakeholders.   Once the operations, information technology and management groups agreed on a concept, TriFactor further detailed the final solution with technical and performance specifications and system pricing.  Additionally, TriFactor and Buckhead Beef collaboratively calculated the return on investment, which proved satisfactory, and as such, are now partnered together to provide and install the automated material handling system …

As director of culinary operations for Norwegian Cruise Line, Lars Kristiansen works with a team each week to ensure 50,000 guests on 13 ships are all fed, and fed well. Since last summer, Kristiansen has included the Certified Angus Beef ® (CAB®) brand as part of that guest satisfaction plan. Norwegian is the only brand licensee on the high seas. …

U.S. consumers are eating traditional snack foods, particularly snacks with a perceived health benefit, in between and at meals, and this behavior will drive the growth of snack foods eaten at main meals over next five years, reports The NPD Group, a leading global information company. A recent NPD food and beverage market research study forecast shows that snack foods eaten at main meals will grow approximately 5 percent over the next five years or to 86.4 billion eatings in 2018. …

The Wixon Foodservice Group has introduced its latest on-trend product concepts for breakfast, driving ‘back of the house’ freshness for its customers’ business. The flavors and seasonings can also be customized for use across all day parts. …