Deli / Prepared Foods

Buffalo-based Rich Products Corp. has identified specific menu ideas and products for operators who have day part foodservice expansion as a goal.

Yesterday, Samuel Adams and Jake Dickson, owner of Dickson’s Farmstand Meats, introduced the Samuel Adams Boston Lager Cut to accompany Samuel Adams Boston Lager.

The 56th Annual Summer Fancy Food Show, held by the National Association for the Specialty Food Trade at New York’s Jacob Javits Center, may have ended yesterday, but the memory of so many stellar gourmet food and beverage products lingers on.

Grand Rapids, Mich.-based Spartan Stores says it has redefined grocery shopping with the opening of its newest D&W Fresh Market.

As consumers continue to rediscover their love of casual food classics -- think savory sandwiches, crispy pizzas and hearty burgers – suppliers are coming to the party

Tyler, Texas-based Brookshire Grocery Co. (BGC) took the wraps off a new logo for its concept food store, FRESH by Brookshire’s, which features the store’s name and a circular icon made of leaves that form a star-shape.

Eight in 10 natural and organic consumers regularly read ingredient labels for health and nutrition content and express interest in purchasing functional foods with additional health, nutrition and dietary benefits, with four in 10, or 39 percent “very interested” in these kinds of foods, according to MamboTrack research from Collingswood, N.J.-based Mambo Sprouts Marketing.

Private label grocery items have become increasingly popular across many product categories, and the trend isn’t likely to diminish in the future, according to Bill Pecoriello, president of Stamford, Conn.-based Consumer Edge Research.