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Building Customer Trust Through Insights

Since the launch of Food Genius Reports in January, we’ve been engaging with our existing and prospective customers to better understand their specific use cases and how our tools might improve to better meet their needs. We’ve received some fantastic feedback, and much of it has been consistent – nearly everyone has requested a deeper [...]

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How Much Is That Burger On The Menu?

Nobody starts a food business for the purpose of expanding margins. People are drawn to the challenge of opening a brewpub or making their own brand of hot sauce because they’re passionate about food. But if you can’t turn a profit then you won’t be doing what you love very long. There’s no free lunch, [...]

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Food Industry News Roundup (March 4th – March 10th)

Last week Taco Bell officially launched the Cool Ranch Doritos Locos Tacos.  This has been a long awaited launch since Frito Lay and Taco Bell teamed up  last year with the Original Doritos Locos Tacos (Doritos Nacho Cheese).  Sales for that product reached 350 million tacos in less than one year, and only time will tell on how consumers [...]

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Monetizing Data: An Evening with Eight of Chicago’s Data Product Management Leaders

We are proud to announce Justin Massa (CEO  & Co-Founder) of Food Genius will be on a panel with other successful data leaders on March 19, 2013 at Pazzo’s at 311 discussing topics around ‘Big Data’. Justin will be part of a panel that includes the following data leaders: Kamal Tahir  –  Senior Manager for Product Management and Marketing, Experian Eloise [...]

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Food Industry News Roundup (Feb. 25th – March 3rd)

February Monthly Recap  Highlights from the month of February include: Kellogg Rolls out new Frozen Food items Innovation creates can do attitude at Campbell Soup McDonald’s to put Fish McBites in Happy Meals Ignite Restaurant Group Acquires Romano’s Macaroni Grill Buffett’s Ketchup Catch: Berkshire Teams With 3G For $23B Heinz Buy Taco Bell to Launch Cool Ranch Doritos Locos [...]

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Restaurant Data Insights — Seafood

We have been looking at a lot of recent posts from industry news publications, e.g., NRN, QSR Mag, Restaurant News, and we noticed a lot of conversation around seafood items. One reason for the increase of seafood articles could be related to Lent. Last week in our Food Industry News Roundup, we featured an entire section [...]

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Food Industry News Roundup (Feb. 18th – Feb 24th)

The topic of most news stories last week seemed to be innovation.  Innovation ranged from Kraft spending the last three years getting its innovation groove back with “New Focus On Fewer, Bigger, Better Ideas“ to Papa Murphy’s testing three varieties of Primo pizza with new ingredients starting at $15-$17.  Innovation seems to be a hot topic these days and we are [...]

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A Restaurant’s Success Favors Those Who Innovate

Last week, Restaurant News featured an article about the changing landscape in restaurants.  The title of this article read: “Restaurant Trends 2013—Why Today is Yesterday for a Restaurants.”  Restaurant News did not beat around the bush with what exactly they meant, “Your success begins with trends. Not today’s. Tomorrow’s.”  In every industry today, change is happening faster [...]

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Food Industry News Roundup (Feb 11th – Feb 17th)

Heinz Big news surfaced in the food industry last Thursday (2/14/2013) when Warren Buffet (Berkshire Hathaway) teamed up with 3G to buy Heinz for $23 billion.  Heinz has played a major role in the food industry for roughly 140 years thanks to its Ketchup, Bagel Bites, and agreements to help produce private-labels for other brands. [...]

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Understanding Trend Predictions: Vegetables

We just highlighted a laundry list of food trend predictions for 2013. There’s a thread that run’s through quite of bit of these predictions: Vegetables. Food consulting company Baum + Whiteman mentioned that seaweed moves beyond sushi and “Kale trickles down to mass-market feeders …” Cooking Light predicted “Sexy Veggies” and that “Flavors will be bigger and bolder [...]

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