With prodding from litigators, legislators, regulators and the natural-foods arm of the “green” movement, foodservice companies large and small are purging from their foods or from the processes that create them substances considered unnecessary...
One of the darkest moments in Jack in the Box Inc.’s corporate history proved to be an opportunity to shine for Linda Lang, the company’s current chairman and chief executive. It was 1993 when four children died and hundreds...
AS WORRIES ABOUT GLOBAL WARMING AND ECOLOGICAL imbalances compound consumers’ budgetary woes over the nation’s costly dependence on nonrenewable fuel, wary foodservice operators are striving to make the resurgent “green” movement pay dividends for...
Since the growing use of corn to make ethanol has driven up prices of many farm-made and -raised commodities, fuel for automobiles and fuel for human sustenance have never been so closely linked as they are today. That issue prompted...
Restaurant owners have begun substituting eco-friendly materials for cotton or synthetic blends in uniforms, saying the alternative fabrics are better for the environment.Among the materials such operators use are bamboo, hemp and organic cotton...
Inconvenient or not, the truth is that global warming has become a hot topic among consumers nationwide, and foodservice companies feel themselves coming under increasing heat to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions in order to please customers...
