Month: April 2022

Cacique Foods Partners With Renowned Mixologist Erick Castro and Cocktail Courier to Launch “Queso and Cocktails” Kits for Cinco de Mayo

April 22, 2022 Cacique Foods

Cacique, one of the country’s top authentic Mexican food brands, is infusing authenticity into Cinco de Mayo favorites by partnering with celebrated Mexican American mixologist Erick Castro to launch “Queso and Cocktails” – a Cinco de Mayo fiesta in a box! The kits will be available for purchase (for those 21+) the weeks leading up to and two weeks after Cinco de Mayo through home cocktail delivery service, Cocktail Courier. The kits will retail for $169.99 and will be available from April 25 through May 25, 2022. …

Wheat Foods Council Meets in Napa for the Future of Food Forum

April 22, 2022 Wheat Foods Council

Chefs, food marketers, millers and other wheat industry representatives came together in Napa, California, on April 11 to 14 for the Wheat Foods Council’s Chef Workshop and first Future of Food Forum. This seminar was insightful and provided a chance to advocate wheat foods to key people in the food industry.   …

Thomas’ Celebrates National English Muffin Day with New Flavor and Limited-Edition Merch

April 22, 2022 Bimbo Bakeries USA

Shoes, sweepstakes, and sweet flavors, oh my! This National English Muffin Day, Thomas’® is celebrating like never before. To honor the Nooks & Crannies® perfection, the folks at Thomas’ are proud to partner again with Operation Warm – a national nonprofit whose mission is to provide warmth, confidence, and hope through basic need programs that connect underserved children to community resources – to grant a $100,000 donation resulting in 5,000 pairs of brand-new shoes for students at five deserving elementary schools within Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Portland and Seattle.   …

Spending Gap Between Full-Service and Quick-Service Restaurants Widened During Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic

April 22, 2022 Keenan Marchesi, USDA ERS

The Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic sparked an unprecedented shift in the way U.S. consumers spent money on food, particularly at restaurants and other food-away-from-home (FAFH) establishments. To document changes in consumer FAFH spending, researchers from the USDA, Economic Research Service (ERS) recently worked with proprietary data from a market research organization that were collected before and throughout the pandemic. …

LA County Bans Single-use Plastics in Foodservice

April 22, 2022 Fox 11 / City News Service

The county Board of Supervisors Tuesday gave final approval to an ordinance requiring that all food-service containers, cups, dishes and cutlery distributed by restaurants and food facilities in unincorporated areas of Los Angeles County be recyclable or compostable. …