We’re in San Francisco for The Good Food Awards, and all are abuzz about tonight’s menu and the weekend’s events.
We’ll be reporting back with highlights on the winners. The finalists list alerted us of many newcomers that we’re excited to meet tonight and tomorrow at the marketplace.
Dunkin’ Donuts will return to California in 2015, with a planned 150 stores to open. The LA Times has the full story.
Starbucks has many plans in store for its new reusable cups. Have you gotten yours yet? Even sometimes the big(ger) brands need to call their customers back in.
Williamsburg, Brooklyn’s Brooklyn Brewery is going to be the first American craft-beer brewer to open overseas. Crain’s has the full report.
With an agreement on the fiscal cliff, restaurant owners who file as an LLC will see an increase of 5% of their taxes, as reported by nations restaurant news. tax increase for small businesses
The F.D.A. proposed new rules on laws to prevent food contamination in produce and prepared foods on Friday. The New York Times reports on the changes, which include requirements for better record keeping, contingency plans for handling outbreaks, and measures that would prevent the spread of contaminants. For example, new safety measures may include requiring that farm workers wash their hands, install portable toilets in fields and ensuring that foods are cooked at temperatures high enough to kill bacteria.
Every brand wants to be bigger and more profitable. But leaders and experts in the quick-service restaurant industry say finding the correct growth rate is a delicate balance of having a clear appreciation for resource and talent capacity and an understanding of one’s appetite for risk. QSR talks to Dan Simons, who runs Vucurevich Simons Advisory Group, a restaurant-consulting firm based in Maryland and Texas.
The public clamored for a greener solution, and they answered. Starbucks is rolling out a novel possible solution today: a $1 reusable tumbler.
USA Today reports, the Seattle-based coffee company will start selling the plastic cups, bearing its logo and resembling the paper version, at all its company-owned stores in the USA and Canada in an effort to get customers to kick their disposable habit. It will 10 cent discount for each purchase, so the cup pays for itself after 10 uses.
Soon, your iPhone can test food for allergens. Two new mobile apps are launching for Smart Phone peripherals that will allow you to test, as you would in a lab, for a variety of allergens.
Just out of the gate, food trends to watch for 2013 from the New York Times. As Julia Moskin writes, “our newly omnivorous nation, restaurant trends often have the same viral spread and short life span as boy bands — witness 2011’s crispy pig ears and sea buckthorn berries. Eating around the country on reporting trips in 2012, I saw food lovers everywhere embracing new interpretations of farm-to-table and nose-to-tail as fast as they came along.”
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