healthcare

2012 Produce Excellence in Foodservice Award Winners Announced

By Restaurant Business Staff on Apr. 04, 2012

MONTEREY, CA (April 4, 2012)—Six chefs and foodservice professionals have won United Fresh 2012 Produce Excellence in Foodservice Awards, a program...

Panera's higher purpose

By Peter Romeo on May 01, 2012

On first blush, it’s like learning Warren Buffett has changed his name to Moonbeam and moved into a commune, one sweat lodge over from Donald Trump’s. Panera Bread, one of the restaurant industry’s biggest financial successes, the proof of free enterprise’s potential, the pin-up above the headboard of so many arch-capitalists, isn’t sold on the whole profit-motive thing.

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How restaurants in Portland, Oregon, are thriving on Conscious Capitalism

By Sam Smith on May 01, 2012

In the late 1990s a group of Pacific Northwest wheat farmers took stock of a bitter reality. They were shipping product to far off, overseas commodity markets, where they had no control over falling prices.

The week in ideas, May 4, 2012

By Restaurant Business Staff on May 04, 2012

Healthcare relief for low-income and illegal restaurant workers in L.A. A Texas restaurant that would rather get a tip than an award for hospitality. And Week In Ideas visits once again with Mary Jane (wink, wink… cough cough cough).

Former President Clinton thanks industry, argues for more cooperation in public life

By Restaurant Business Staff on May 06, 2012

Before a standing-room-only crowd, former President Bill Clinton thanked the restaurant industry for its efforts to make healthier food available to children and made the argument that in solving big problems like childhood obesity “cooperation works better than conflict in the 21st Century.”

Obamacare: Be afraid. Be very afraid.

By Sam Smith on May 08, 2012

If you weren’t scared of Obamacare before going into an NRA session on healthcare reform, you were terrified when you left.

LeanLogistics Adds Independent Foodservice Distributors to Client Network

By Restaurant Business Staff on Jul. 10, 2012

HOLLAND, MI (July 10, 2012)—Transportation management system (TMS) and supply chain services provider LeanLogistics signed on independent foodservice...

Divisions surface on nutrition disclosure

By Peter Romeo on Jul. 25, 2012

The industry’s division over the feasibility of pending menu labeling rules was underscored Tuesday when an alternative plan was put forth with the support of a newly formed restaurant trade group.

Health-care reform's deep cuts

By Steve Brooks on Aug. 31, 2012

If you haven't started preparing for Obamacare, you're not alone. A July poll of 4,000 employers, by human relations consulting firm Mercer, found 56 percent had been waiting for a Supreme Court decision before planning.

Health-care reform

By Restaurant Business Staff on Aug. 31, 2012

You don’t have to insure your part-time workers—defined as less than 30 hours a week—but you do have to include them in calculating your number of full-time workers.

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