Producing the goods: Covid-19’s impact on food manufacturing
How could the virus shape, in the longer term, how food companies organise their manufacturing and the products they offer? Simon Creasey explores.
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Producing the goods: Covid-19’s impact on food manufacturing
As industries have reacted to Covid-19, two of the big business buzzwords of 2020 have been ‘unprecedented’ and ‘accelerated’. In…
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Delivery Hero workers in Turkey seek to form union
The workers of German food delivery platform Delivery Hero in Turkey are reportedly looking to form a union. Delivery Hero runs its operation in the…
Perfect Company raises funds for foodservice technology solutions
Restaurant technology provider Perfect Company has raised $6m through its Series A funding round to expand its offerings for the foodservice industry. The financing was…
CKE Restaurants selects PAR Technology for Cloud-based POS platform
US-based CKE Restaurants, which operates Carl’s Jr and Hardee’s brands, has chosen ParTech’s PAR Brink point-of-sale (POS) software for its…
Food delivery platform Delivery Hero launches venture capital fund
German food delivery platform Delivery Hero has launched an independently managed venture capital fund with the aim of investing in…
BurgerFi signs deal to open six restaurants in Saudi Arabia
US-based fast-casual restaurant chain BurgerFi International has signed a multi-unit development agreement with Food Supplies to open six restaurants in…
Pubs and restaurants in UK likely to remain closed until May
UK pubs and restaurants are likely to remain closed, with early May Bank Holiday apparently being considered as a possible…
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View MoreTwitter round-up: Michael Greger’s tweet on the advantages of garlic most popular tweet in December 2020
Garlic leads as Food Service lists five of the most popular tweets by foodservice critics in December 2020 based on data from GlobalData’s Influencer Platform. The top tweets were chosen…
Dark kitchens, virtual menus, and the future of foodservice
Dark kitchens comprise the latest step in the increasingly tech-focused evolution of the food delivery sector. Coupled with other growing concepts such as ‘virtual menus’ – menus for brands that…
Greggs suffers first annual loss in 36 years but remains optimistic
Greggs has announced that it expects to record an annual loss of up to £15m for 2020. This would be its first annual loss since 1984. Despite this, the bakery…
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Delivery Hero workers in Turkey seek to form union
The workers of German food delivery platform Delivery Hero in Turkey are reportedly looking to form a union.
CKE Restaurants selects PAR Technology for Cloud-based POS platform
US-based CKE Restaurants, which operates Carl’s Jr and Hardee’s brands, has chosen ParTech’s PAR Brink point-of-sale (POS) software for its corporate-owned restaurants and select franchisee...
Cuisine Solutions and Pret A Manger partner for sous vide concept
Cuisine Solutions, which manufactures and distributes sous vide food products, has joined forces with cafe chain Pret A Manger to introduce a sous vide ‘dark...
Double dip recession on UK horizon for ever more pessimistic consumers: when will the economy rise again?
Five months on from the Eat Out to Help Out scheme, we’ve reached the point where British businesses may start looking to the government for the next big idea. The…