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Consumer Trends

Food and mood

A new study by the Florida Department of Citrus found that drinking orange juice evokes positive emotions and an optimistic outlook. Through a patented research process designed to reveal unconscious emotions, consumers shared their thoughts and feelings about orange juice and its role in their lives.

Consumer Trends

Food preferences of vegans and vegetarians

Vegetarian cuisine is moving mainstream - there’s no denying that Meatless Mondays were only the beginning. Going one step further to a vegan diet – no meat, poultry or fish as well as no eggs, dairy foods and other animal-derived products such as honey – is gaining momentum as well, driven by health, animal welfare and environmental concerns.

Menu engineering techniques boost sales of high profit menu items. Here are two techniques always lead to higher profits.

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.

Foodservice distributors have taken issue with The New York Times for implicitly blaming the recent hepatitis outbreak on distributors' improper handling of...

If there is one thing to take away from the 2013 Restaurant Growth Index it’s this: competition is more intense than ever.

NEW YORK - Foodservice distributors who service commercial and non-commercial operators in Pennsylvania should become acquainted with the new, stricter...

Given that people have such strong feelings about cigarettes, it’s somewhat surprising that restaurant operators are up in the air when it comes to electronic versions.

Two new studies are calling for the disclosure of nutritional information on restaurant menus and a curb on food advertising aimed at children as partial but important ways to combat juvenile obesity.

Two-thirds of North American units are throwing in the napkin on Satisfries, which were introduced about a year ago with much fanfare about their lower fat and calorie contents. The home office acknowledged that sales were disappointing.

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