Peachtree Group Launches Restaurant Management Division

September 5, 2024 Peachtree Group

Peachtree Group, a vertically integrated investment management firm, has launched a restaurant management division. Under the leadership of Daniel Puglisi, SVP of corporate operations for hospitality management, this division will focus on operating quick-service restaurants, starting with coffee shops.

Restaurant Brands Charge onto Supermarket Shelves

While the strategy is not new, restaurant companies are becoming more familiar to grocery shoppers and are seeing revenue and marketing potential in consumer packaged goods (CPG). 

US Foods, Feeding America to Shape the Future of Food Access With Expansion of Innovative Direct to Neighbor Locker Project

September 5, 2024 US Foods

As part of US Foods’ recently enhanced “Helping Communities Make It” hunger-relief programming, the company will grant Feeding America $750,000 to expand the organization’s highly innovative Direct to Neighbor locker project into seven additional communities by the end of 2024.

University of Missouri’s Christopher Daubert Takes Over as President of Institute of Food Technologists

Daubert is an IFT fellow and previously served as chair of the Food Engineering division. He was also a member-at-large of IFT’s Dogwood section in North Carolina. Daubert recently shared how growing up in Hershey, Pennsylvania, home to the Hershey Company, impacted his interest in the food sciences.

Innovative Food Holdings, Inc. Announces Close of the Sale of igourmet.com Business

Innovative Food Holdings, Inc. announced the close of a transaction to sell its consumer e-commerce business igourmet.com for $700,000 in cash, plus the assumption of approximately $350,000 of gift card liabilities.