Officials for Fairway Market have announced the grocery chain’s fifth Manhattan location, on Sixth Ave. near West 26th Street, will open Monday, July 24th.
The 23,000-square-foot store is on two-floors. Fairway will host a ceremony celebrating the opening at 9 a.m. on July 24, followed by a ribbon-cutting.
The store should open to shoppers at 10 a.m.
CNN Small Business reports that U.S. franchises are enjoying newfound interest and success abroad, as the hard-hit U.S. economy has made domestic expansion harder. U.S. franchises are growing decidedly faster abroad than they are in the United States, where growth was flat at best between 2010 and 2012.
At the franchise expo in New York City this year, one fifth of attendees were from foreign countries, including Kuwait, Peru, Bangladesh, China, and the United Arab Emirates.
The increased interest and opportunity for growth has allowed U.S. franchises to demand more favorable terms from franchisees, as well, such as requiring them to open multiple units.
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The Washington City Paper profiled several D.C.-area chefs who are rapidly expanding the number of restaurants to their names, often opening new enterprises every two years or less. Those profiled include Mike Isabella and Spike Mendelsohn.
The chefs interviewed say the pressures to build an “empire” are coming from multiple sources, from the new definition of a successful chef perpetuated by the Food Network (which now includes blogs, book deals, shows, and merchandise), to the hype generated from new concepts, to the shortage of cooks and the need to create a place for talented staff to move up and not on.
For more on this trend, read the full article here.
The Specialty Food Association announced its take on the top trends from this summer’s Fancy Food Show, the association’s major semiannual industry trade show. The top five new trends were:
Continuing trends included single-serve snacks, Vietnamese flavors, chickpea and seaweed snacks, maple products, sweet and savory cookies, coconut, salted caramel, and gluten-free products.
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Fast-casual pizza concepts are growing, both in terms of sales and number of enterprises, according to the latest report from Restaurant Hospitality. Fast-casual pizza has grown to a $31 billion segment in the last 20 years. Adding in casual dining Italian enterprises, the pizza market balloons to a $50 billion industry.
Inspired by the rise of fast-casual giant Chipotle, build-your-own pizza enterprises in the fast-casual segment are positioning themselves as artisanal, high-quality brands where guests are in control of their own experience. Even major chains are recognizing the trend and offering more high-quality specialty toppings.
Many of the big players in the pizza market, such as Sbarro, are also entering the build-your-own space alongside independents, making the pizza landscape highly competitive for the foreseeable future.
For a full roundup of the space’s key players and an in-depth assessment of the trend, click here.
Over the holiday weekend, Merchants Hospitality opened two new food venues at the East River Waterfront Esplanade near Pier 15. Pop-up taco stand Oaxaca Express is the latest addition, opening July 3 at 70 South Street between Fletcher Lane and Maiden Lane. The stand has waterfront patio seating for 150 with views of the Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Williamsburg bridges and will be open daily for lunch and dinner through the fall. Oaxaca Express’s fare will include soft-shell tacos, chips, salsa, guacamole and a full bar.
It joins other recently-opened enterprises in the area from Merchants Hospitality, including ice cream shop Cones Cafe, which serves Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, and Watermark Bar, which serves classic American fare such as hot dogs, hamburgers, and lobster rolls.
The East River waterfront area was hit hard by Sandy, but has begun developing again and “‘becoming a neighborhood of its own,'” said Abraham Merchant, co-owner of Merchants Hospitality.
For more information about the new enterprises and area development, click here.
Shack Shack’s London location is set to open Friday in Covent Garden. In keeping with their philosophy of adapting each location to its environment, the space looks slightly different from stateside Shacks, and the menu has been adapted.
While many familiar favorites will remain on the menu, Danny Meyer’s team has, as they frequently do, created some new items specific to the new location using local purveyors. Savory items include a Cumberland Sausage, made with a rare breed of pork, and a ShackMeister Sausage, an upgraded Cumberland Sausage with cheese sauce and beer-marinated shallots. Burgers will use Scottish grass-fed Aberdeen Angus. They have also partnered with St. JOHN Bakery and paul.a.young chocolatier to offer some special Concretes, including the Union Shack and Drury Lane Jam.
Eddie Cedeno, 29, opened Strangeways coffee shop at 87 St. Nicholas Avenue in Bushwick this week. Cedeno got his start in the coffee industry roasting at Gorilla coffee eight years ago. Until recently, he was a manager, roaster, and green coffee buyer for Oslo. But when Oslo burnt down in January, Cedeno decided the time was right to pursue his dream and open his own cafe. Cedeno and investors Zachary Nathanson (of Lucky Dog) and Salvator Fristensky (of Skinny Dennis) partnered up to open Strangeways.
The cafe focuses on single-origin coffees and espressos, with a broad array of preparations available, from a pour-over bar to an AeroPress. Their coffee comes from carefully sourced farms in Central and South America and is custom-roasted by Oslo. Strangeways also offers baked goods from Dough.
For more information about Strangeways, check out their Facebook page.
Talent Management addresses how to help employees seeking what it takes to be successful and build their careers, and how to handle the transition when that answer may not lie within your own company.
NRN reports on the U.S. Senate bill seeking to change the definition of a full-time worker as it applies to the federal health-care reform law.
The Forty Hours is Full Time Act of 2013 would redefine a full-time employee as one who works 40 hours a week or 174 hours a month based on a 52-week year.
Currently the Affordable Care Act states that businesses with more than 50 full-time workers must provide health insurance for full-time employees who work either 30 hours per week or 130 hours per month.
Read the full article here.
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