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Pizza Inn Selects Roma Food as its Exclusive Distributor

With more than 50 years of experience in the pizza and Italian segment, Roma Foods is the nation's largest distributor to the pizza industry."We are excited...

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Bertucci’s customer favorites spark 30th birthday specials

The Northborough, Massachusetts-based Bertucci’s, founded in 1981, is currently celebrating its 30th birthday with a limited-time menu that revisits comfort food classics.

Sandwich creativity is at its peak these days, as chefs and menu developers treat a wide variety of breads as a blank canvas on which to practice their artistry. The examples here combine carriers, fillings and garnishes in inventive ways—these are not your ordinary lunchbox sandwiches.

The Champagne corks should have been popping for Eric Justice. Barely into his 40s, the admittedly driven chef had achieved the sort of success that instructors recount in culinary schools to stoke students’ dreams and determination. He was overseeing culinary operations for one of the industry’s hottest concepts, making a good income from a company hailed as a great and challenging place to work.

Opening one of the restaurant industry’s largest conventions, commentator Laura Ingraham asked attendees of the packed Restaurant Leadership Conference to raise a hand if they were inspired by any of potential contenders for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination. A hush filled the room and not a hand was raised.

The economic downturn brought new diners into 7-Eleven stores looking to fill their bellies without emptying their wallets, reported The Dallas Morning News. With the economy on the mend, the convenience store chain is launching "signature" food items that it hopes will keep consumers hungry for more, said the report.

What makes for a successful sandwich menu? Variety and differentiation are the winning characteristics. That means sourcing a quality assortment of breads, filling ingredients and condiments and layering flavors and textures for maximum taste appeal.

TOLEDO, Ohio (June 20, 2010)—Sofo Foods, one of the largest food distributors in northwest Ohio, filed a lawsuit last month against Marco’s Pizza...

In this down economy, some restaurants have taken their eye off beverage while trying to survive. That’s a big, possibly fatal, mistake.

(January 20, 2010 - Bloomberg)—Uno Restaurant Holdings Corp., theoperator of 99 Uno Chicago Grill casual-dining restaurants,filed for bankruptcy...

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