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April 16, 2013

Influential in Food: Bret Thorn of Nation’s Restaurant News

There are many people who have become influential in our food system, and each and everyone of them has wisdom to share and an interesting story to tell.

This past Monday (April 15th) we sat down with Bret Thorn, Senior Editor at Nation’s Restaurant News. Bret covers anything newsworthy in the industry from features on small independent operators to overarching foodservice trends. We appreciate Bret taking the time to sit down with us and answer some questions we had for him.  Bret had a lot of great input for us and we appreciated hearing his thoughts on some of his favorite subjects – the origin of food, locally grown food, and Asian Cuisine.

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April 16, 2013

Food Industry News Roundup (April 8th – April 14th)

Last week we announced some of our own news, the arrival of the next quarter of Food Genius Reports data.  We are excited for the new data and some changes that we have made t0 improve Food Genius Reports.  These changes include: (1) Improved Menu Recognition, (2) A New Set of Ingredients: Liquids, (3) A New Set of [...]

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April 8, 2013

Food Industry News Roundup (April 1st – April 7th)

Multiple pizza Chains made headlines last week with different types of menu innovation.  On Monday, Hungry Howie’s and Little Caesars both announced the launching of deep dish pizza.  Hungry Howie’s VP of strategic marketing had this to say about the launch of deep dish pizza — “We are so thrilled to debut the world’s first deep dish [...]

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April 8, 2013

The Next Quarter of Food Genius Reports is Here!

It’s starting to feel like Spring and we have been very busy here at Food Genius. We are excited to let everyone know that menu data for Q2 has been loaded into the Food Genius Reports dashboard and that there are a lot of new features everybody should get excited about as well. Improved Menu [...]

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April 3, 2013

Food Innovations: Will this New Substitute Scramble the Egg Market?

In our “Food Innovations” series, we highlight new and emerging business’, people, ideas, and products that we feel are disruptive to the foodservice industry as a whole. Topics are meant to inform our readers of new topics. Any opinions expressed are those of the interviewees and do not necessarily reflect the position of Food Genius. – According [...]

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April 2, 2013

Food Industry News Roundup (March 25th – March 31st)

Over the past few weeks, we have seen lots and lots of new menu items; however, this past week was a relatively quiet week in the food industry.  Although it was a relatively quite week, we still wanted to provide you stories that caught our eye. Pinnacle Foods Sets IPO Price at $20 a Share [...]

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April 1, 2013

Who Do Chefs Think are the Best Chefs?

A book has been recently published this past month that we thought our readers should know about. “Best Chefs in America” highlights chefs who have been nominated by their colleagues across the country and aggregates the best in each region of the US. There are a lot of different chefs both in the restaurant and product development world so we ask, “Who would [...]

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March 25, 2013

Food Industry News Roundup (March 17th – March 24th)

The Food Industry had a lot of exciting news last week.  It started off with Pinnacle Foods aiming to raise $551M in IPO and included the Twinkies Sale being approved by a Judge (Cakes To Join Forces With PBR).  That wasn’t the only news on the Retail / CPG side of the food industry. Symphony IRI also announced that private-label brands may [...]

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March 22, 2013

Fun Menu Data Visualizations: The Cheesecake Factory

The Cheesecake Factory is definitely known for their cheesecake, but they are also known for their extremely large selection of choices on their menu. There are over 400 menu items not including drinks! On top of all of this, they still have a large number of new menus items that they are introducing on a regular basis. [...]

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March 20, 2013

McDonald’s Menu Flashback

There has been a lot of action and innovation in the McDonald’s Menu as of late. In our last blog post we highlighted McDonald’s announcement to launch new menu offerings for the spring McDonald’s to launch new spring menu offerings Premium McWraps, egg-white McMuffin, blueberry-pomegranate smoothie to debut this spring.  McDonald’s Corp. has confirmed the launch dates of several [...]

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