http://www.foodservice.com Latest News en-us Copyright 2012 Foodservice.com Tue, 07 Feb 2012 06:00:00 GMT http://www.foodservice.com/images/foodservice_home.jpg http://www.foodservice.com Tue, 07 Feb 2012 06:00:00 EST Sysco Corp. (SYY), which sells food to restaurants, says its sales volume growth toward the end of the year indicates the dining industry saw a busy holiday season. Still, the relentless rise in food prices, coupled with pressure to keep its own prices lower than competitors, prevented Sysco from seeing a bottom-line benefit from the sales boost. Sysco's fiscal second-quarter profit fell... http://www.foodservice.com/news/show.cfm?contentid=34409 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 06:00:00 EST Chipotle Mexican Grill executives sounded an optimistic note for the coming year during the company's fourth-quarter earnings call, despite an anticipated double-digit rise in costs for the company's naturally cultivated commodities. Montgomery Moran, co-CEO of Chipotle, said the company expects to open 155165 new Chipotle locations in 2012. While this is more restaurants than we've... http://www.foodservice.com/news/show.cfm?contentid=34408 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 06:00:00 EST Giving consumers what they want will be crucial for all small businesses in 2012, but particularly for restaurant owners, according to a new industry forecast. Because the recession caused 8 out of 10 consumers to cut back on nonessential spending, it is more important than ever for operators to nudge those guests into spending their discretionary dollars at their restaurants. Setting a place for... http://www.foodservice.com/news/show.cfm?contentid=34407 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 06:00:00 EST A Long Island restaurant owner who had offered free catering to customers if the Giants won burned $60,000 in catering bills Monday as he settled his bets. Al Horowitz, the owner of Smokin' Al's restaurants in Bay Shore and Massapequa Park, never stopped smiling, even as the credit card receipts created a roaring fire on his restaurant grill. I won. I won, he insisted. I made a lot... http://www.foodservice.com/news/show.cfm?contentid=34406 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 06:00:00 EST Behind every great chef are diligent commis, or assistant chefs. For Chef Richard Rosendale, the chef who won last weeks Bocuse DOr USA competition, his commis was Corey Siegel, a 21-year-old Jewish trainee chef who works with him at the Greenbrier resort in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. The Bocuse DOr competition is considered the Olympics of cooking, and the USA segment qualifies American... http://www.foodservice.com/news/show.cfm?contentid=34405 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 06:00:00 EST After nearly two decades of attempts by U.S. fast food titans like McDonald's to open up outlets in the Palestinian territories, it was Colonel Sanders from Kentucky who finally was able to be the first when a KFC opened up in the city of Ramallah over the weekend. According to the L.A. Times, the main reason that no such eateries had opened in the Palestinian territories was an alleged insistence... http://www.foodservice.com/news/show.cfm?contentid=34404 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 06:00:00 EST Chick-fil-A Inc. boosted its sales 13 percent to a record $4 billion in 2011. The privately held Atlanta-based fast-food chicken chain said the performance represented the 44th consecutive year of sales growth since the company began in 1967. Chick-fil-A opened 92 new restaurants to surpass more than 1,600 restaurants in 39 states and Washington D.C....... http://www.foodservice.com/news/show.cfm?contentid=34403 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 06:00:00 EST Ethnic food -- from Korean to Thai to El Salvadoran -- has become more familiar to the average U.S. consumer, and increasingly people are finding out about these cuisines not from mom-and-pop restaurants or specialty stores, but via food trucks. The movement is helping pave the way for the increasing popularity in ethnic street cuisine because of how food trucks work. They've allowed those... http://www.foodservice.com/news/show.cfm?contentid=34402 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 06:00:00 EST Fidelity National Financial Inc.has signed a definitive agreement to acquire all the outstanding common stock that it does not own of the restaurant chain OCharleys Inc., making it the sole owner. FNF already owns 2.1 million, or 9.5 percent, of O'Charley's (Nasdaq: CHUX) outstanding common shares. The company will offer OCharleys stockholders...... http://www.foodservice.com/news/show.cfm?contentid=34401 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 06:00:00 EST A number of the fastest-growing QSRs and fast-casual chains are also among the nation's best-rated large chains and have sustained and improved their overall customer satisfaction ratings as theyve grown, according to research by Sandelman Assoc. According to the firm, these dining options have made customer service excellence a part of their institutional DNA, which has allowed chains to... http://www.foodservice.com/news/show.cfm?contentid=34400