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Many of us find food labels to be confusing. Hopefully, this will be a thing of the past. Considerable progress has been made in recent years in food labeling to end food label confusion and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is expected to make changes to food labels in 2018, with one of their goals being to make them easier to read and understand. But the food service … read more

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is expected to issue new federal food labeling guidelines in 2018. In general, the guidelines, which may also be referred to as food and nutrition facts labels, will require any chain restaurant with 20 or more U.S. locations operating under the same business name, to include food labeling that shows nutritional information such as calories, fa … read more

Something mysterious has been happening at the University of Montana (UM) in Missoula. Nutrition facts labels, also known as food labels, have been slowly disappearing in the school cafeteria. While no one at the university said anything about it, the disappearing food labels finally caught the attention of reporters at the school newspaper, which ran a story on it in late April 2017 … read more

CMC DayMark LTD announced today that Greg Fitchett has returned to the company's operations in the UK and Europe as General Manager. In April, Mr. Fitchett had left CMC DayMark to investigate the opportunity to resurrect a UK-based distributor in the bakery industry. Previously, he spent 16 years with CMC DayMark building strong trading relationships with distributors in the foodservice indu … read more

Grab-and-go food is one of the fastest-growing segments of the food service industry. We now see grab-and-go food marketed in schools and colleges, hotels, convention centers, convenience stores, and office buildings. Reasons for this are many, but key is the fact that many grab-and-go food products are healthy, made using fresh, high-quality ingredients. Some items are also … read more

A few years back, Elkins Middle School, located in West Virginia, made a significant change in the way they served breakfast to its students. Instead of having students walk through long lines in the cafeteria, they can now select a grab and go breakfast which they can eat on the move and even in their classrooms. Elkins Middle is one of 100 schools in the state which now offers stud … read more

According to the National Floor Safety Institute (NFSI) and as reported by EHS Today , slip and fall accidents are the number one cause of injuries in the hospitality industry. Looking at this statistic a bit closer, we find that most of these slip and fall accidents in restaurants do not occur in the dining room, but in the back-of-house, or the kitchen area. This … read more

People getting sick in a restaurant is a fact of life for many establishments. Because we have to assume that the ill person may have norovirus, we have no choice but to know how to respond when this occurs and the proper actions to take to stop the spread of norovirus and prevent the situation from becoming more dangerous. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published … read more

Depending on which studies you read, the grab and go (GNG) industry has been—and continues to be—a booming industry. According to Richard Macomb, a UK-based writer that follows grab and go trends, “it’s a booming sector fueling our busy lives.” The reason he gives for this rapid growth is that GNG has offered so much convenience and “convenience is king”. He also refers to gra … read more

The food labeling industry is in the midst of several emerging trends. For the most part, new food labeling programs are being introduced to benefit food manufacturers, retailers marketing food products such as grab and go food items, the customers who purchase these products, and our environment. In fact, when it comes to grab and go food items, some would say that food label … read more