Foodservice

“At Your Request” or “A La Carte” — lets patients order food directly from the hospital food service department between regularly scheduled mealtimes, even if they just need a snack to tide them over. Better yet, the cost of these special orders are considered part of standard care, hospital officials said. [Read more…] about Hospitals' Latest Offering: Room Service

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A colleague of mine went to the Werner’s Bistro last night, with the chairman if his company. The bistro, in Bedford View is apparently all the rage at the moment.

After a Waldorf salad was delivered with no nuts, they complained to the waitress, who called the manager, Zelda. She grumbled rudely without helping the matter and went off.

A few minutes later Werner himself came out with a tray of salad ingredients and told Craig and co, “Make your own fucking salad!”

So if you don’t get enough abuse during the day, and the basic fundamentals of service bore you, Werner’s may be for you.

It’s like something out of a Monty Python skit…!

https://www.just-food.com/features_detail.asp?art=908&lk=rss
Giving away free pedometers, switching to healthier cooking oil, cutting the salt content of products… These are just some of the ways the food industry has been demonstrating its willingness to tackle the obesity crisis. But is the industry to blame for expanding waistlines, or does responsibility lie elsewhere? Kate Barker reports on the latest moves by the food industry to tackle the problem.

https://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6251867/

SEATTLE – There are so few Starbucks Corp. stores in the world that customers are sometimes forced to journey more than two blocks to find one, the coffee retailer’s chief executive bemoaned Thursday.
[Read more…] about Starbucks, aimining for 30.000 units

Buyers of fresh tuna, whether at the sushi bar or the supermarket, often look for cherry-red flesh to tell them that the fish is top-quality. But it has become increasingly likely that the fish is bright red because it has been sprayed with carbon monoxide.

Carbon monoxide, a gas that is also a component of wood smoke, prevents the flesh from discoloring. It can even turn chocolate tuna red, according to some who have seen the process.

People in the seafood industry estimate that 25 million pounds of treated tuna, about 30 percent of total tuna imports, were brought into the United States last year, mostly from processors in Southeast Asia. Retailers in the United States buy it already treated.

https://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/06/dining/06TUNA.html?ex=1098138633&ei=1&en=9920ea462067f5bc

America’s constant quest for convenience has driven some of the most popular trends in eating out: the drive-through lane, the Styrofoam container, the to-go counter.

Take all those conveniences, add the cell phone and the Internet, and you have the fastest-growing sector in casual dining: curbside to-go [Read more…] about Family dinner

https://www.foedevarebranchen.dk/foedevarenyt1-ny.asp

 Fastfood-industrien vokser støt, og maden bliver mere og mere sund. I Europa såvel som i USA ser mange nye fastfoodkoncepter dagens lys – alle med det til fælles, at sundhed, friskhed og høj kvalitet er drivende parametre. Og ikke kun de nye er sunde. Giganter som McDonalds, Burger King og Kentucky Fried Chicken har ligeledes kastet sig ud i det ene sunde tiltag efter det andet. Skriften på væggen er klar: Junkfood-æraen er ved at være slut.

Ovenstående var hovedbudskabet ved seminaret Fremtidens fastfood, som Børsen FødevareSundhed arrangerede under Madfestival i Tivoli i den forgangne uge. Blandt talerne var eksperter i den internationale udvikling samt repræsentanter fra den danske fødevareindustri, fra den hyperkvalitetsfokuserede bageri/kolonialkæde Emmerys over sundhedsfokuserede Agrova Food til McDonalds.

På seminaret var der også indlæg af trendspotter Mike Hohnen, Retalia A/S. Han fortalte, hvordan de varmeste nye amerikanske fastfood-koncepter har fokus på sundhed og friske råvarer.
– Friskhed er af helt afgørende betydning, og i USA har det stor betydning for virksomhedens profil, om man bruger friske eller frosne råvarer. »The good guys« har ingen frysere eller mikroovne, og det gør de tydeligt opmærksom på i deres markedsføring, forklarede Mike Hohnen. 
Børsen 03.08

A key factor driving growth in dairy product sales in developed markets is the increasing demand for products with functional properties, such as probiotic yoghurts. Euromonitor looks at the different types of functional dairy products available and the main players in this competitive market.

https://www.just-food.com/features_detail.asp?art=901&lk=rss