Retail & FoodService

It has come to this: chopped salad in a drugstore. It’s the final frontier for a lunchtime fad that started in the city’s fine-dining restaurants, spread to delis and cafes, and took a downward dip to fast casual restaurants like T.G.I. Friday’s, Quiznos and Arby’s. Subway recently announced that it would serve any of its six-inch subs as a chopped salad, minus the bread. In other words, New Yorkers can now get a chopped salad just about any place except a gasoline station. …

Tennessee is receiving more than $3 million in federal funds from the United States Department of Agriculture to help provide fresh fruits and vegetables in public schools with the highest rates of students enrolled in in free and reduced lunch programs. …

The Retailer Owned Food Distributors & Associates (ROFDA), the largest cooperative of independent food wholesalers, today expressed its support of product safety by endorsing the use of best-in-class recall process management technology from Recall InfoLink. The Recall InfoLink solution has been successfully deployed at ROFDA members Affiliated Foods of Amarillo, Associated Grocers-Baton Rouge, Olean Wholesale Grocers and Associated Grocers of the South. Other members are expected to implement the system later this year. …

After years of planning and a delayed approval by the City Council, Walmart's Neighborhood Market opened Wednesday July 17th  to excited shoppers and a small, but vocal, group of detractors who held their own welcoming ceremony. …

Grocery prices vary greatly across the state, a recent North Dakota State University Extension study has found.

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