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Summer Food Trends: Food Trucks and Street Food – UPDATE

[vc_row][vc_column width=”2/3″][container][text_output]As warmer weather approaches and more consumers look for cuisines they can enjoy while being outdoors, food trucks and street food are lining the curbs and sidewalks. In a recent article onMeat&Poultry.com, TGI Friday’s announced the launch of their Handcrafted America Tour—featuring food sampling trucks that will tour multiple cities in the U.S. that […]

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2014 Foodservice Trends Roundup

At the end of 2013, many organizations published foodservice industry trends forecasts for the New Year. We’re rounding up what appear to be the most prominent predictions published. Almost 1,300 members of the American Culinary Federation were surveyed for the The National Restaurant Association (NRA) 2014 Culinary Forecast. Looking at the trends, it is easy

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2014 Consumer Food Trends Roundup

In last year’s blog post regarding 2013 consumer trends predictions, we commented on a theme we were seeing: health and wellness. As we researched and read industry news on consumer trend predictions for 2014, we found the theme to be similar with the addition of convenience. Convenience is key Recent research shows the number of

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Street Food in Europe

[vc_row][vc_column width=”2/3″][container][text_output]Food trucks and street food continue to receive a lot of attention in the United States and have become a leading trend setter in new culinary developments for corporate chefs and the R&D crowd. With all this national buzz, we thought it would be interesting to take a look at how street food translates

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2013 Foodservice Food Trends Roundup

It’s that time of year again when many publications, consultants and organizations submit their predictions for next year’s food trends and popular developments. 2013 food predictions Most of the food trend predictions tend to include a lot of information, so we’ve looked at a couple of notable sources and their 2013 predictions and have highlighted

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Top Trends at IFT12

The IFT Annual Meeting & Food Expo was once again the year’s leading showcase for the top trends in food ingredient marketing. Held at the Las Vegas Convention Center in late June, the annual trade show of the Institute of Food Technologists featured over 1,000 ingredient manufacturers exhibiting their latest products and solutions for the

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