The U.S. restaurant industry is evolving in profound ways, according to Technomic’s newest study, which lays out 10 trends that may prove transformational in 2016, ranging from menu tweaks to technological and social upheavals.
A.T. Kearney’s third annual survey of U.S. shoppers’ local food-buying habits finds that local food has made the leap from a “hot” consumer trend to a central growth driver for grocery retailers and restaurants.
Bob Evans Farms, Inc., completed a sale-leaseback transaction of its BEF Foods industrial properties located in Lima, Ohio, and Sulphur Springs, Texas.
Case Farms Chicken, selected Primus Builders, Inc., to provide the full range of design-build services on a 102,000-square-foot Greenfield refrigerated warehouse in Dudley, N.C.
In support of the produce industry’s efforts to drive demand for more fresh produce, the Produce Marketing Association, Newark, Del., announced a strategic alliance with the Entertainment Resource & Marketing Association (ERMA), a Santa Monica, Calif.-based association of entertainment marketing professionals, to bring fresh produce center stage through television shows, movies and online entertainment.
Canada-based Claridge Inc. sold one of its portfolio companies, La Terra Fina USA, Union City, Calif., to an affiliate of HP Hood LLC, Lynnfield, Mass., effective Oct. 9.
Canada-based Clearwater Seafoods entered into an agreement with the Beaton Family and private equity fund Change Capital Partners to acquire 100% of the shares of Macduff Shellfish Group Ltd., a UK-based vertically integrated shellfish company.