Dave's Killer Bread Shows 'Solid Performance' For Flowers Foods

May 17, 2018 Flowers Foods

Said Allen Shiver, Flowers Foods president and CEO, "Sales growth for the quarter was ahead of expectations, driven by the continued strength of Dave's Killer Bread and the solid performance of our Nature's Own and Wonder brands. In April, we introduced new, artisan-style products under Nature's Own, and initial consumer response has been encouraging."

Advocacy Taken To The Next Level For Chef’s Attending Beef Checkoff Media Training

The Beef Checkoff hosted a comprehensive one-day training on May 9 with eight chefs from across the Northeast region. Chefs are valuable members of the beef community, bringing delicious and nutritious beef meals to consumers via a foodservice setting each day.

Workers Can Now Make Dinner With Vending-Machine Meal Kits

Chef’d, a company backed by Campbell Soup Co. and Smithfield Foods Inc., is putting its meals in hundreds of new-age machines across the Bay Area, including at the offices of Tesla Inc. and Chevron Corp., and on the campus of Stanford University. It’s betting that workers on their way out the door might be in the market for boxes of pre-portioned ingredients that allow them to skip the grocery store on the way home.

Andrew Zimmern Among Panel Of Judges For James Beard Foundation’s 2018 ‘Blended Burger Project’ Competition

May 17, 2018 James Beard Foundation

As the James Beard Foundation’s annual Blended Burger Project™ grows in restaurant participation, the Foundation has named a prestigious panel of judges to help select this years’ top mushroom + meat* blended burgers.

More Than 45,000 Foodservice Buyers Expected At NASDA’s American Food Fair Pavilion This Weekend

The National Association of State Departments of Agriculture (NASDA), together with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agricultural Service (USDA FAS), will open the American Food Fairat the National Restaurant Association (NRA) Show at McCormick Place in Chicago this Saturday.