3+ day, 1+ hour ago   (509+ words) Here's the number that should stop every California restaurant operator mid-shift: $1.65 per $100 of payroll. That's the state's new workers' compensation advisory pure premium rate that took effect on September 1 — a 6.6% jump, and the second straight annual increase after roughly a decade…...

4+ day, 1+ hour ago   (436+ words) Free chicken salad for a year has a way of drawing a crowd — and on September 22, that crowd will be lining up in Clifton Park, New York. That's the day Chicken Salad Chick, the nation's only fast casual chicken salad…...

4+ day, 1+ hour ago   (333+ words) What if your customers got to pick the next brand on your shelf—before you placed a single order? That's exactly the bet Fresh Thyme Market just made, and it paid off in a way that should get every grocery…...

4+ day, 17+ hour ago   (462+ words) The dessert case is being rewritten one single serving at a time—and Sara Lee® is betting big that the future of frozen bakery isn't a whole cake for a birthday, but a perfectly portioned indulgence for a Tuesday night....

4+ day, 17+ hour ago   (367+ words) Cause marketing works best when the value proposition is dead simple: give a little, get a lot, do some good. Penn Station Sandwiches has quietly turned that formula into a $2 million-plus community engine — and this fall, it's running the play…...

5+ day, 1+ hour ago   (511+ words) A single dinner reservation is now enough to launch an entire trip. That's the shift Trip.Gourmet is betting the next decade on — and its newly released 2027 Fine Dining List reads like a global map of the meals people will…...

5+ day, 1+ hour ago   (491+ words) When a cookware brand wants to prove it belongs in the big leagues, there's no tougher room than Italy — a country that essentially wrote the rulebook on food, craftsmanship and hospitality. That's exactly the market HexClad just walked into, and…...

4+ day, 21+ hour ago   (269+ words) Gaming culture has become one of the most valuable — and hardest to reach — audiences in the food and beverage industry. Sapporo just found a shortcut: put the game on the package. Beyond the redesigned packaging and in-store partnership displays, the…...

4+ day, 21+ hour ago   (351+ words) Six years, eight cities, zero outside investors — and now a 10,000-square-foot flagship a single block from where the New Year's Eve ball drops. That's the trajectory that lands Kitchen + Kocktails by Kevin Kelley in Times Square this fall, and it's…...

6+ day, 1+ hour ago   (493+ words) One of America's most recognizable casual-dining brands just found its next frontier — and it's a market most U.S. operators aren't watching closely enough. TGI Fridays has signed a landmark development agreement with the Devolli Group, one of the Balkans' leading…...