We are honored and proud to announce that Foodservice Equipment & Supplies has named The Wasserstrom Company the 2024 winner of the magazine’s acclaimed Dealer of the Year Award. “We are so grateful all our associates continue to be recognized for the great work they are doing to support our customers, vendors, and each other.
Wasserstrom is pleased to announce the 6th Annual Equipment & Supplies Fall Expo for the restaurant and foodservice industries taking place in two cities: Phoenix, AZ and Columbus, OH. Mark your calendars! The Phoenix event will be held on September 26th while the Columbus event will be on October 9th. And best of all, both […]
Unless you have been living under a rock, you have heard about the impending death of the plastic straw. And now, the rush is on to find alternatives to the traditional plastic straw. This is a complicated issue. There are situations where some type of straw is not only helpful, but often necessary. For example, […]
Restaurant review site, Yelp, has just announced that it will be adding health inspection scores to its restaurant reviews. Currently, the program is only active in California, Illinois, New York, Texas and Washington, DC. However, Yelp says it hopes to roll out the hygiene score information to other states in the near future. Yelp has […]
This issue of Trend Watch has a common theme: Restaurant Labor. Employees are one of the largest expenses in running a restaurant. Competition is heating up and businesses are trying to squeeze every penny of profit out of their restaurant. So it isn’t surprising that there are technology solutions stepping in to help. Robot Burgers […]
Columbus State Community College’s Hospitality Management and Culinary Arts program has consistently been highly rated, both in Ohio and nationwide. And today, the college took a giant leap into the future by breaking ground on a brand new facility. The new building will be christened Mitchell Hall, named for one of Columbus’ favorite sons, restaurateur […]
Do you love Amazon’s Alexa so much that you miss her when you go on vacation? Well, that could be a thing of the past with the introduction of Amazon for Hospitality. The introduction of the new service will put voice-enabled Amazon Echo devices in hotel rooms. The in-room devices will be pre-programmed for a variety […]
Did you have a lemonade stand as a kid? Did you have a permit? These days, not having a permit could get you busted. This very thing happened recently in Denver. The police showed up and shut down a lemonade stand that was being run by two young boys aged six and four. Even worse, […]
Television personality, author and celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain has died at age 61. The cause of death has been reported as suicide. CNN confirmed Bourdain’s passing with a statement: “It is with extraordinary sadness we can confirm the death of our friend and colleague, Anthony Bourdain. His love of great adventure, new friends, fine food […]
Fast food favorite Wendy’s has announced a new plan for sourcing its tomatoes to provide the freshest produce in the business. Wendy’s is already well-known for its “fresh, never frozen” beef (and their sassy social media jabs at rival McDonald’s). Now the fast-food giant is announcing its plans to source vine-ripened tomatoes for its North […]
The European Commission is proposing a ban on 10 single-use plastic items that it says make up 70% of the trash that ends up in European waterways and beaches. While this is not a measure that is aimed exclusively at restaurants and other foodservice providers, those types of businesses will clearly be the most affected. […]
Google recently held its annual developer conference where it announced all the new things it is working on. None of these garnered more buzz than the announcement of Google Duplex. Duplex is sort of an extension of personal digital assistants such as Google’s own Home product or Amazon’s Alexa or Apple’s Siri. The upgrade here […]
As of last Monday, all chain restaurants in America are required to show calorie counts on their menus. A quick check of our local area over the last few days indicates that there is still a long way to go for full compliance. The new rule was actually created in 2015 as a part of […]
We all know that food delivery is the hottest trend in the industry right now. But what if you could get a whole restaurant delivered? It’s not a fantasy and it actually happened last week just a stone’s throw from our corporate offices. A new Rally’s restaurant building was delivered on a flatbed recently and put […]
UPDATE 1-8-19: Good news for residents of Florida, Iowa, Nebraska, North Carolina, and our own home state of Ohio. Pizza Hut has expanded their pilot program again to include these new states and will bring the total store count up to 300 restaurants by mid-January. The company hopes to expand this to 1000 stores by this […]
Is Disney the answer to America’s chef shortage? Well, that might be getting a bit ahead of ourselves. But what is certain is that the House of Mouse is doubling down on its recently expanded Disney Digital Network with the creation of a new online food channel: Disney Eats. This week, Disney hosted its Digital […]
California’s Proposition 65 already requires the nation’s most stringent labeling of products containing potentially cancer-causing chemicals. But a new ruling by a judge in California may take it even one step further by requiring coffee-sellers to put a warning on coffee cups sold to the public. The Safe Drinking Water & Toxic Enforcement Act was implemented […]