Poor Economy Alters Workers' Lunch Habits
A few months ago, Jessie Snider realized the $75 to $80 she was spending each week on lunch at restaurants was cutting into her paycheck. So she traded sit-down lunches of caprese salads and angel-hair pasta for brown-bag lunches of leftover stir-fry and turkey sandwiches. Read the full story >>
The three vegetables most commonly menued in hospitals are carrots (99%), broccoli (98%) and peas (96%). Source: R&I, 2007 Menu Census
Operators Seek Subtle Ways to Save
Restaurateurs are coping with skyrocketing food costs by shrinking portions of costly meat and fish and increasing portions of less expensive items. Other operators are forgoing linens, cutting back on staff and reducing in other ways, all to avoid raising menu prices. Read the full story >>
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New Jersey's Last Ponderosa Closes
The last Ponderosa steakhouse in New Jersey is history, a victim of the faltering economy. The chain, which once had 10 restaurants in the Garden State, closed its last outlet in West Orange on June 1. It opened in 1990. Read the full story >>
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Lane Cardwell: Foodservice, the Coral Reef of American Business
"As the restaurant industry deals with 30-year highs in commodity inflation and the impacts of increasingly difficult legislation and regulation, we see the industry's own 'coral reef structures' feeling the effects," writes Chain Leader blogger Lane Cardwell. "We are not in danger of extinction, but the viability of some our financially weaker chains and independents, like the coral reefs, could be classified as 'endangered.'" Read the full story >>
Rising Feed Costs Threaten Commercial Catfish Farming
Catfish farmers across the South, unable to cope with the soaring cost of corn and soybean feed, are draining their ponds. "It's a dead business," said John Dillard, who pioneered the commercial farming of catfish in the late 1960s. Last year Dillard & Co. raised 11 million fish. Next year it will raise none. Read the full story >>
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