by Tim Powell | Aug 19, 2026 | Blog
College and university foodservice has always been more complicated than it appears. A campus may look like a single account, but it contains multiple populations, service formats and eating occasions. A first-year student living in a residence hall has little in...
by Tim Powell | Aug 15, 2026 | Blog
Artificial intelligence has become the foodservice industry’s newest answer to nearly every question. How can operators reduce labor? AI. How can manufacturers improve forecasting? AI. How can restaurants personalize marketing, develop menus or manage inventory? AI....
by Tim Powell | Aug 2, 2026 | Blog
When manufacturers ask us about the outlook for foodservice, the conversation almost always turns to the economy. Will consumers continue eating away from home? Are operators likely to invest? Will inflation finally ease? No single indicator answers those questions....
by Tim Powell | Jun 25, 2026 | Blog
Every summer, manufacturers begin the same exercise. Forecasts are updated. Budgets are built. Sales targets are negotiated. Marketing priorities are debated. Before long, someone opens last year’s spreadsheet and starts adjusting numbers upward or downward based on...
by Tim Powell | May 29, 2026 | Blog
“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool.” — Richard Feynman I recently listened to a podcast about Richard Feynman, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist who helped develop quantum electrodynamics and...
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