A Design Thats More Than Station Deep
WELCOME. (l. to r.) Debra Lee, Jane GrantShambaugh and Janet Paul-Rice at the entrance to the new Anderson Dining Room at Concordia College. Custom mill...
College Concessions: The Onsite Playbook
In designing the new Stanford stadium, university officials decided to shrink seating from 85,000 to 50,000, but added wider seats, more legroom, bigger...
Oil-for Fuel Program
WASTE NOT WANT NOT. Startups like San Diego-based New Leaf Biofuel collect used oil from foodservice establishments and convert it into biodiesel, turning...
Making Nutrition a Business Proposition
LINKS Disney Does Wellness Too Look at What They're Doing! Whole grains and veggies are finally beginning to trump transfats and fructoseat least in some...
A Plate Is a Terrible Thing to Waste
Food and plate waste have been longstanding concerns for noncommercial operators. They increase food costs, add to waste removal costs and conflict with...
Taking the Measure of the Market
As the foodservice industry enters 2007, hiring is on an uptick, consumer spending is growing at about 2.8 percent, and fuel prices are moderating. Interest...
What's on the Cutting Edge
What did we ever do before microwave ovens, or bar codes, or word processors, or...well, you get the idea. As new technologies come along and are broadly...
Viewpoint Interview: A Conversation with Compass Group's Rick Post
Rick PostiglioneRick Post as he is known to colleaguesjoined Compass Group in 1997 as president of the newly-acquired Flik organization. He became president...
Putting in the Order
Pre-ordering kiosk units such as the ones from EMN8 used at Disneyworld not only reduce the clogging around serving stations but allow customers to transmit...
Kitchen Innovation
MAKING WAVES. Electrolux' Air-O-Speed combi-oven was named the 2006 Product of the Year by Foodservice Consultants Society International because of its...
Payment Systems
Motorola's experimental M-Wallet chip will allow customers to use their cell phones not just to do their banking but to interact with merchants on loyalty...
RFID
At some point, cell phones could become a primary payment vehicle through the use of radio-frequency tags. One of the most exciting frontiers in retailing...
A Big League Player in a Very Competitive Business
The Many Faces of Centerplate. (top, to bottom.) Yankee Stadium in its mid-game glory, the action station at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, insuite...
The Immutable Laws of Profit-and-Loss
Some immutable laws are understood by everyone: gravity, for example-what goes up must come down. But other immutable laws are not so well understood:...
Working the Subsidy Reduction Equation
by Tracy Lawler Management Fee vs. P&L Over the last two decades, corporate clients have increasingly searched for ways to contain or reduce their food...
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