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- 01 Oct 2002
- News
What's Cookin'
in part, perhaps, to its tough, unglamorous realities. “Anyone who does a good job in the food industry and makes money works really, really hard,” says Keith Garner, owner of Pasta Cuisine, a restaurant and... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 15 Mar 2024
- News
Hungry for Change
As a management consultant at Kurt Salmon, Kate Flynn (MBA 2012) often worked with clients in the packaged food industry. She saw customers asking for healthier and more sustainable foods, and she herself was seeking better options. From that hunger, Sun & Swell was... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Forecasting ’15
the scenes for a while. Almost everyone I know in the food packaging and grocery industry is a health nut. People are becoming more aware of their health and have a growing desire to find a way to eat and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Ron Shaich’s Café Society
sandwiches on its own bread. We spent the next two years traveling the country attempting to understand the changes occurring in our industry and concluded that, like so many others, the food View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Meal Plan
Image by John Ritter In 2019, US restaurants topped $860 billion in revenues; prior to COVID-19, Americans spent more for food away from home than food purchased for at-home consumption, whether it be a... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Vision: To Go-Go
For all their variety, restaurants have two things in common: a kitchen where food is prepared and a dining area where customers consume it. But what if you could use technology to ditch the dining area and just keep the kitchen, trimming... View Details
- 03 Aug 2022
- News
Hungry for Change
products in the food industry are thinking, ‘How can we make the best product possible within the existing grocery supply chain?” she says. Flynn decided to launch Sun & Swell with a different approach:... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 06 Jul 2015
- News
Lights! Camera... Market!
support and market their film,” says Simon, senior director of marketing at Hain Celestial, a leading natural and organic food company based in New York and maker of Terra Chips, a brand of unique vegetable chips, including its signature... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Feedback
inexpensively on a desktop. I ran a small “Skunk Works”-like program at Lockheed Martin in the early 1990s that produced the IKONOS satellite, the first high-resolution commercial satellite that has evolved over time into an industry... View Details
- 03 Mar 2020
- News
Can This Man Change the American Diet?
the food dev lab is part of Clover’s DNA. “We will screw something up,” Muir wrote on the wall of Clover’s first restaurant in Harvard Square. Customers can read about those missteps in the “our mistakes” section of Clover’s website. For... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Innovation: Frozen Assets
and Derek Jeter at the launch of the Luvo food truck this summer in New York City. (Courtesy of Luvo) Growth for the three-year-old Luvo, though, requires overcoming a few cultural hurdles. While frozen-food sales spiked at the outset of... View Details
Keywords: Janelle Nanos
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Sorry, We’re All Out of Chilean Sea Bass
places our food comes from and us the consumers. And that’s part of the problem. Do you think it was worth spending millions of taxpayer dollars and endangering lives to pursue the fishing vessel? The economic incentives for this kind of... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Kelp Is on the Way
scale the latter and to offer packaging materials at a price that’s actually viable for that kind of commodity. Between those extremes, Macro Oceans also produces a flexible biopolymer, called alginate, that’s widely used in the food... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Going Down Easy
Duda Photo courtesy A&E/THE WELL-SEASONED TRAVELER The Well-Seasoned Traveler, a food series on the A&E network, goes to the source for enlightenment: Italy for pasta, France for truffle hunting, Tokyo for sushi, Switzerland for... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
From Bytes to Bites
in the food world are just several of the demands that have kept Thomas engaged in her new career. “Crisis management is the norm in the restaurant business,” she notes. “That doesn’t work for me because I was trained as an View Details
- 29 Jul 2013
- News
Opening New Markets for Black South African Winemakers
wine-making. But apartheid had prevented them from owning land or gaining access to capital. Wine had become a $3 billion export industry for South Africa, but just 2 percent of the market was held by black South Africans, who comprise 85... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Q&A: Orin Smith
young consumers. I believe that will be true in our case. How would you describe the Starbucks company culture? It is highly aspirational and very people-oriented. Starbucks gives stock options to all employees (we call them partners); we were also the first in this... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Alumni News | Book Briefs
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Food Rights: The Escalating Battle over Who Decides What We Eat by David E. Gumpert (OPM 5, 1981) (Chelsea Green Publishing) Do Americans have the right to get their food... View Details
- 14 Nov 2019
- News
Keeping Red Lobster Fresh
to do is work on is following a phased plan. And there are three phases to the plan. Phase one was fixing the fundamentals of the business, which are making sure you're operating well, making sure you got high-quality food and system.... View Details
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Understanding Challenges Across the Supply Chain
challenges,” he explains. A former supermarket industry CEO, Alvarez shares his passion for exploring all aspects of the food industry—from farm to port to table—with participants in the Agribusiness... View Details