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If you are a bakery professional that deals in bulk, chances are, you're used to seeing massive numbers when measuring ingredients for your 2,000 + pastry yield. What you may not be accustomed to is having to simplify those numbers down in order to create a nutrition...
As a consumer, by now you've probably heard of one calorie-counting app or another. From MyFitnessPal released by Under Armour to apps like Calorie Tracker, at some time, it's highly likely you've ventured into the world of tracking your food through one of these apps...
Creating a More Health Conscious Customer According to a new release by Fox Business News, placing calorie counts on your restaurant menu actually changes the way that your customers order. It looks like they're ordering healthier options and reducing their caloric...
The Meat Major Leagues: Who’s on First? With plant-based meat alternatives hitting a home-run at every major fast food chain across the U.S. and the Meat Industry defending the outfield, it begins to make you wonder if something else could be stepping up to the plate....
The New Philadelphia Sodium Law: Is Your Restaurant Menu Compliant? As of September 14, 2019, Philadelphia has become the second city in the United States to enforce a regulation requiring restaurants with more than 15 locations to place warning labels next to menu...
FDA Restaurant Regulations for Menu Labeling: FAQ's As of May 2018, restaurants or food businesses with 20+ locations have been required by law to provide calorie counts on their menus as well as additional nutrition information on menu items when requested. This...
FDA Menu Calorie Count Law: What You Need to Know The menu labeling law, which came in to affect in mid-2018 as a provision of the affordable care act, states that all food establishments with 20 locations or more are now required to list the calorie information next...
In an effort to comply with the charge given by the World Health Organization to reduce the amount of sodium found in packaged foods, the Saudi Food and Drug Authority has set a regulation for bakers in regards to the permissible amount of sodium allowed in baked...
As a restaurant owner, you are probably aware of the final rule published by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 2014. What you might not know are all the intricacies of the ruling and what is required by restaurants and business that fall under the...
As a restaurant owner, you are probably well aware of the final rule changes by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that went into effect in May of 2018 regarding calorie and nutrition label information. What you might not know is how these final rule changes...
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Throughout the last 10 years of working with food business professionals and restaurant chains of all shapes and sizes, we've done a lot of listening, particularly when it comes to giving an ear to pain-points that our clients express. And in the past decade the most...
We've all heard of functional food by now --- food that performs a function in the body to solve a problem or health concern. In the last 10 years or so, our society has begun to learn the difference between skinny and healthy, calories and nutrition. Diet-culture has...
From McDonald's Big Mac sauce to Hooters wing sauce, over the years restaurants have been known to come up with amazing recipes that become a "must have" to consumers. And if you've stumbled upon this article, chances are, you've got a great recipe at your restaurant...
As the landscape of the foodservice market place begins to evolve to serve a more digitally-based world, more and more businesses are finding that their traditional ways of connecting with their customers have become outdated. And as this realization hits, the search...