Food retailers have an understanding of the unique balance between palate, price, pleasure and the consumer’s drive for qualitative distinctive differentiated new food consumables. This is one of the main reasons that the grocerant niche of prepared fresh ready-to-eat and ready-to-heat niche have continued to grow during this period of economic disruption. The food value proposition equilibrium for the consumer today balances; better for you, flavor, and traditional products all blended into something with a twist.
Burger King is known for controversial marketing. They don’t mind getting “in your face.”
When told by a reporter “the King is creepy,” former BK CMO Russ Klein replied, “I’ll take creepy.”
After all, bad pub is better than no pub at all.
The BK formula is to be “edgy,” with the brand pitched as the “cool uncle” [...]
Sqwish ice cream dispensing systems (www.sqwish.net) will be demonstrating its range of soft serve style ice cream products on booth number 1473 at the International Restaurant & Foodservice Show of New York, held at the Jacob K Javits Center from 28 February to 4th March
One of the smartest guys on the ‘Net is Steve Johnson whose blog is called “The Grocerant.”
You can visit it here The Grocerant.
Grocerants are hybrid grocery stores and restaurants. After all, grocery stores and [...]
For Ken Rosenthal, 1987’s “Black Monday” ended up being good luck. The bakery-café he opened the day of a global stock meltdown has grown into a $1.3 billion business of 1,300 restaurants across the country.
Diane Chung, co-owner of Gari Japanese Restaurant in Brookline, is staging a modest revolt against MasterCard and Visa.
Six months ago, she started “Maki Madness’’ on Sundays, offering as much as 55 percent off select maki rolls for those who pay in cash. Credit and debit card users pay full price.
Sunday Jan 24, 2010 (foodconsumer.org) — The USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service on Jan 23 posted a statement to alert consumers to a recall for 1,240,000 pounds of read-to-eat (RTE) varieties of Italian sausage products including salami/salame due to possible contamination of salmonella.
Small-business owners are feeling good, better in fact than they’ve felt in more than two years. But that doesn’t mean this group—who own the majority of the nation’s businesses—doesn’t have serious concerns around the margins, believe the U.S. economy will return to world dominance, or plan to go on hiring binges.