Year: 2014

The National Restaurant Association today announced that the Beef Checkoff Program has become a sponsor of the Association’s award-winning Kids LiveWell program, a voluntary industry-wide initiative designed to help make the healthful choice the easy choice when dining out with children. The National Restaurant Association applauded the checkoff for its commitment to promoting and developing nutritious kids’ meals. …

Healthy offerings at restaurants are top of mind for many consumers, as new crops of health conscious quick-serve and fast casual restaurants launch and grow. From Freshii and Protein Bar and LYFE Kitchen, it seems as though you cant go a month without hearing about a new chain opening that claims to offer all the convenience of fast food without the guilt. In honor of this fast growing trend, Food Genius has released their latest Industry Report: Healthy and the Health Halo: Menu Trends and Insights, detailing comprehensive data on what terms, attributes and language is used on menus to denote health in the eyes of consumers across the country. …

To help restaurants keep their customers happy, wobble-free, and returning again and again, FLAT® Tech developed an exclusive table base technology that solves the two most common problems for restaurant chains: wobbly and misaligned tables. …

Following introduction at this year’s PMA Fresh Summit Expo in Anaheim California, Ruby Fresh is excited to report that several school districts have added 2 oz. pomegranate aril snack cups to their lunch menus this fall. With recent initiatives to provide healthy snack alternatives at schools throughout the country, Ruby Fresh has developed a pomegranate aril snack cup for school lunch programs. …

Urban Barns Foods Inc., an innovative food producer dedicated to growing consistent, healthy and fresh vegetables year round using its proprietary Cubic Farming™ method, has signed a memorandum of understanding dated December 2, 2014 with Bamford Produce Company Limited (“Bamford’s”) for the purpose of establishing a collaborative business relationship between the two businesses. …