The well-known and beloved Brooklyn bakery finally opens up their first retail post serving up pastries such as Bloody Mary scones, dark chocolate stout cake with salted chocolate pudding or salted chocolate chip cookies
Ovenly is located at 31 Greenpoint Avenue at the corner of West Street
Ovenly opened on Memorial Day weekend in Greenpoint
May 31, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Groupon Aquires Breadcrumb, a New York City IPAD POS Company
May 31, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Similar to mobile payment service Square, Breadcrumb runs its point of sale system (POS) with iOS apps. This keeps costs lower because businesses aren’t stuck buying pricy cash register equipment. At a restaurant, Breadcrumb can manage an entire patron’s order from the time they walk in the door to when they pay their check. Groupon alludes that it will integrate its services into the Breadcrumb POS system.
Plaza Food Hall opens in Midtown West with notable food kiosks
May 31, 2012 by Leave a Comment
The Plaza Food Hall expands into a foodie delight with the iconic tastes from No. 7 Sub, William Greenberg Desserts, Luke’s Lobster and much more.
Check out all of the vendors at the hall located at 1 West 59th Street at 5th Avenue
Fast Casual Executive Summit: October 21-23 in San Diego
May 29, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Join Hospitality executives at the fast casual summit this october in San Diego. This unique gathering will bring together a select group of top executives from the fast casual segment for two and a half days of networking and work group sessions designed to foster the exchange of ideas and innovations covering the industry’s top strategic issues. Fast casual executives will have the opportunity to further establish segment best practices through peer collaboration and executive education in a fun and relaxed environment.
Fast Casual Executive Summit, October 21-23 in San Diego, reserve your spot.
June 11th NYCHG Networking Cocktails at STK in Midtown
May 28, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Join the New York City Hospitality Group for Summer Cocktails at STK Midtown on June 11th.
NYCHG is a select group of industry leaders that specialize in working with hospitality and restaurants. Each group member is highly recognized in their field, providing insight and expertise to all the clients that are represented in the group.
Vermont sits in the #1 spot on the Locavore Index for locally sourced food
May 10, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Nationwide, small farms, farmers markets and specialty food makers are popping up and thriving as more people seek locally produced foods. More than half of consumers now say it’s more important to buy local than organic, according to market research firm Mintel, and Deputy Agriculture Secretary Kathleen Merrigan called the local food movement “the biggest retail food trend in my adult lifetime.” But with no official definition for what makes a food local, the government can’t track sales. And consumers don’t always know what they are buying. A supermarket tomato labeled “local” may have come from 10, 100 or more miles away. Strict locavores stick to food raised within a certain radius of their home — 50, 100 or 250 miles. Others may allow themselves dried spices, coffee or chocolate.
Two of the more common standards used by locavores are food produced within 100 miles or within the same state that it’s consumed. A new locavore index ranked Vermont as the top state in its commitment to raising and eating locally grown food based on the number of farmers markets and community supported agriculture farms, where customers pay a lump sum up front and receive weekly deliveries of produce and other foods.
Vermont has 99 farmers markets and 164 CSAs, with a population of fewer than 622,000, according to the 2012 Strolling of the Heifers Locavore Index, which relies on U.S. Department of Agriculture and census figures. Iowa, Montana, Maine and Hawaii rounded out the top five.
Corner Bakery Cafe expands to the Northeast with an anticipated 22 locations in Connecticut and Rhode Island
May 10, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Corner Bakery Cafe, know for its signature line of grilled panini, freshly baked sweets and made-to-order breakfast scramblers, will open 22 new locations in Rhode Island and Connecticut throughout the next eight years.
The agreement, signed by Top Line Restaurants, calls for 16 cafes in Connecticut and six in Rhode Island, with the first location scheduled to open by summer 2013. The new restaurants will help boost the local economy in those states by adding more than 800 jobs into the market over the next eight years.
Free Webinar: Learn more about Mobile Payments: May 17th 2pm
May 9, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Join QSR and Seth Priebatsch, Chief Ninja, LevelUp Nick Holland, Senior Analyst, Yankee Group and Chris Mahl, Chief Revenue and Strategy Officer, LevelUp on Thursday, May 17 at 2:00pm for a mobile payments discussion between industry leaders.
You’ll learn: Who’s first. Many consumers already pay with their phones. What tech are they using, and which businesses are on board? What’s working. Some mobile payment solutions have already come and gone. Learn what differentiates the winners. Why you’ll be involved. Mobile payments represent a fundamental shift in the way we do business, and there are new value propositions for all players in the space. Learn where you fit into the picture.
What every Restaurateur and Retailer should know about Immigration: 10 Steps to Compliance
May 8, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Federal immigration officials are stepping up efforts to crack down on the hiring of illegal workers, but there are steps restaurant operators can take to protect themselves, employment attorney Daniel Ramirez told attendees at the NRA Show. A partner with the Houston-based law firm Monty & Ramirez LLP, Ramirez outlined the top ten strategies operators should be taking today.
In 2011, 624 employers were arrested for hiring undocumented workers, up from 433 the year before, he said. Since 2009, U.S. employers have paid out more than $76 million in financial sanctions.
A key issue is whether employers knowingly hired unauthorized workers. Ramirez said there is “actual knowledge,” when a worker tells the employer he or she is undocumented, and there’s “constructive knowledge,” when a reasonable person can figure out a worker isn’t in compliance.
10 Steps to protect your operation from immigration non-compliance
Edible Manhattan Presents New York Eat Drink Local Week 6/23-6/30
May 7, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Edible Manhattan’s Eat Drink Local Week celebrated by Edibles around the Tri-state area, raises awareness about the bounty of products grown in the region, drives customers to the restaurants and other businesses that feature these products, and raises funds for charitable partners dedicated to regional agriculture throughout the state. The fourth Eat Drink Local week kicks off June 23 and involves partners from the entire food chain, who urge you to dine out, cook in, and celebrate the ingredients, landscape and people behind our food and drink through a week’s worth of events, which we’re currently planning.
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