Caribou Coffee expands

Caribou Coffee teams up with Crossmark, a marketing company specializing in consumer packaged goods, to expand their packaging brand.
The second largest coffeehouse operator in America seeks to increase it’s packaged coffee line for the at-home consumer

https://paigepapers.com/2011/08/25/caribouexpands/

2nd Avenue Deli expands

New York City wants to expand letter grades to city food carts.
Mayor Mike Bloomberg claims that he would like to know if the vendor that handles his hot dog washed his hands

https://paigepapers.com/2011/08/25/1253/

National Restaurant News’ Marketing Webinar

NRN Webinar on Restaurant Marketing & Social Media. Register today.
The webinar will take place on Wednesday, September 7th from 10:30am – 5:30pm

https://paigepapers.com/2011/08/25/nrn_webinar_marketing/

U.S. corn crop suffers

Heat wave leaves U.S. corn crops stagnant.
Corn crops are approximately 1 percent smaller than expected by the USDA and the usage of corn and soybean is expected to decrease by 2.5 percent

https://paigepapers.com/2011/08/24/heatwavecorncrop/

2nd Avenue Deli open on The Upper East Side

Another shop opening on the Upper East Side, 2nd Avenue Deli debuts 2nd shop.
The doors opened at 6:30am on August 16th on 1st Avenue and 75th Street

https://paigepapers.com/2011/08/23/2ndavenuedelinowopen/

Nation chicken coops

Chicken coops aren’t just a New York City trend.
More people are tending to chickens as Seattle Tilth , an environmental-education nonprofit, highlighted that in July 47 host families volunteered to show-off their coops for tours– up from 29 last year.

https://paigepapers.com/2011/08/23/nationalchickencoop/

Food Truck Entrepreneurs are welcome at tonight’s panel discussion

Event tonight at 7:30pm: A Panel Discussion with David Weber of the NYC Food Truck Association, owner of Rickshaw Dumplings & more
Debating about food trucks versus the stationary food cart

https://paigepapers.com/2011/08/23/foodtruckpaneldiscussion/

Food trucks work their way around new parking rules in New York City

It seems as though food carts are coming back in full steam as New York enforces a strict policy against mobile food operators parking in Midtown
Does this mean that current food trucks will transform to food carts?

https://paigepapers.com/2011/08/23/strictpolicies_nycfoodtrucks/

Urban gardening goes up around the city

Trending Now: More urban gardens sprouting in New York City
New York City’s Goat Town restaurant in the East Village sources ingredients from their own backyard garden

https://paigepapers.com/2011/08/23/newyorkcity_urbangardening/

Ice Cream and Sundaes

Event: Sunday, August 21st, Ice Cream Sunday at New Amsterdam Market from 1pm -4pm will be hosted at the South Street Seaport from 10am – 8pm
Village Voice’s Fork in the Road blog offers a discount code for ticket purchases

https://paigepapers.com/2011/08/19/newamsterdamicecreamsunday/