Browsing: Food

When a restaurant group’s CFO moves into the president’s chair, it says something about where the industry’s smartest operators are looking for leadership: not just at the menu, but at the math, the people, and the long game. That’s the story at Alexandria Restaurant Partners (ARP), the Northern Virginia-based multi-brand operator that has just named…

Eight German food and beverage industry associations have launched a joint campaign against the federal government’s planned sugar tax, stepping up opposition as lawmakers in Berlin debate the measure and a decision is expected by the end of November.

There are those of us who are old enough to remember a time before we plunged headlong into the year 2000 with hopes of hoverboards and flying cars, commercial space travel and supersonic jets, and a whole bunch of foodie innovations. Boy, were we silly. Instead, the 21st century has turned out to be a…