Month: August 2015

Sometimes the right blend can change your perception. One of our industry research and promotion programs is remixing school meal items to help change students’ preconceptions and get them to eat healthy foods. The Mushroom Council helped out on this front in a number of ways. …

The Manufacturers’ Agents Association for the Foodservice Industry (MAFSI) has released their Second Quarter 2015 Commercial Foodservice Business Barometer; a member-sourced report compiling intelligence from the leading sales and marketing agencies in the commercial foodservice industry across the United States and Canada. …

Foodies as a subculture of gastronomically adventurous individuals are a smorgasbord of shapes, sizes, ethnicities, and principles. They are, in essence, the personification of the very culinary diversity that has come to define the Foodie movement. Yet many food retailers and foodservice companies persist in focusing their marketing efforts on foodies under the age of 35, or those who are members of the Millennial generation, according to Foodies in the U.S.: Opportunities for Restaurants and Retail, 2nd Edition, a report by market research firm Packaged Facts. …

Prime Time International recently began shipping five pounds boxes of peppers to restaurants and other food service customers. Prime Time introduced the five-pound box to satisfy the market’s growing demand. These five-pound boxes have distinct advantages for some customers. Often the twenty-five pound box is shipped to a distributor who then invests labor and materials to split this carton into individual five-pound boxes. …