Month: August 2016

For the sixth consecutive year, restaurant job growth will outpace the overall economy in 2016, adding more than 300,000 jobs this year according to the National Restaurant Association. To help students prepare to enter this burgeoning area of job growth, CEV Multimedia has collaborated with the American Meat Science Association (AMSA) to develop the Culinary Meat Selection and Cookery certification. …

Japan’s Kobe beef is the Rolls-Royce of red meat, the world’s most famously luxurious steak. It’s also the world’s most counterfeited beef, and odds are that if you ate it in this country, even if you paid hundreds of dollars for a single small steak, you were duped. …

ASMI completed new research (Datassential, January 2016) to help foodservice operators understand consumer preferences for seafood at chain restaurants. The research demonstrates that consumers are looking for more seafood on menus, particularly wild-caught seafood, for taste and health reasons. …

Buffalo-based Rich Products Corporation announces the launch of a new breakthrough product innovation called Café WhipTM.  Café Whip is the foodservice industry’s first dairy-alternative whipped topping made with coconut milk, whose appeal shows no signs of stopping. …

Total restaurant industry results for the quarter ending June 2016 looks to be a carbon copy of Q1 results. Total foodservice industry traffic was flat in the first quarter and remains flat in the second quarter, reports The NPD Group, a leading global information company. Quick service restaurant (QSR) visits, which make up 80 percent of total industry traffic, were also flat in the second quarter after being up one percent in the first quarter, according to NPD Group’s ongoing foodservice market research. …