Sentences with phrase «from competitive food»

[27] The study concluded that because most SFAs break even overall, the average SFA used revenues from reimbursable meals to offset losses from competitive foods.

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Each year the company raises its menu prices to cover increasing food costs, but it generally keeps those price hikes below the rate of inflation for «food away from home» to stay competitive.

The nation's leading food and beverage manufacturers — an industry collectively known as Big Food — have been busy reformulating legacy brands to be more competitive in a world in which consumers are gravitating away from highly processed foods and instead favoring fresher alternatives, like vegetables and fruits, that are found along the perimeter of the grocery stfood and beverage manufacturers — an industry collectively known as Big Food — have been busy reformulating legacy brands to be more competitive in a world in which consumers are gravitating away from highly processed foods and instead favoring fresher alternatives, like vegetables and fruits, that are found along the perimeter of the grocery stFood — have been busy reformulating legacy brands to be more competitive in a world in which consumers are gravitating away from highly processed foods and instead favoring fresher alternatives, like vegetables and fruits, that are found along the perimeter of the grocery store.

MOD Pizza sets itself apart from others in the food business, offering perks like competitive wages, paid time off and free meals.

In the hyper - competitive food - delivery business, startups are hoping to hook customers with subscription memberships and keep them from jumping to competitors that peddle discounts.

These risks and uncertainties include food safety and food - borne illness concerns; litigation; unfavorable publicity; federal, state and local regulation of our business including health care reform, labor and insurance costs; technology failures; failure to execute a business continuity plan following a disaster; health concerns including virus outbreaks; the intensely competitive nature of the restaurant industry; factors impacting our ability to drive sales growth; the impact of indebtedness we incurred in the RARE acquisition; our plans to expand our newer brands like Bahama Breeze and Seasons 52; our ability to successfully integrate Eddie V's restaurant operations; a lack of suitable new restaurant locations; higher - than - anticipated costs to open, close or remodel restaurants; increased advertising and marketing costs; a failure to develop and recruit effective leaders; the price and availability of key food products and utilities; shortages or interruptions in the delivery of food and other products; volatility in the market value of derivatives; general macroeconomic factors, including unemployment and interest rates; disruptions in the financial markets; risk of doing business with franchisees and vendors in foreign markets; failure to protect our service marks or other intellectual property; a possible impairment in the carrying value of our goodwill or other intangible assets; a failure of our internal controls over financial reporting or changes in accounting standards; and other factors and uncertainties discussed from time to time in reports filed by Darden with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

All of Alfa Laval's hygienic food equipment, food machinery, and services for the food processing industry are developed with the aim of keeping up with the food industry trends and addressing four key challenges; supplying food products to consumers at a competitive price, getting the most from raw materials, reducing waste and emissions, and delivering safe and hygienic food products.

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«I discovered The Takedowns on a break from some inebriated late night ebaying, and food blog scouring, and after placing second in the bacon competition with a Blue Cheese Bacon Explosion wedge, I was hooked on the idea of competitive cooking.

Headquartered in San Diego and supported by more than 130 food and beverage managers throughout California, Premier is «just a drive away» from its clients and suppliers providing Premier a competitive edge.

«This co-investment funding is urgently required to upgrade and modernise SPC Ardmona's fruit and vegetable processing operations and transform it from a cannery into a modern food company, which will enable the business to develop innovative products, be more competitive and build export market potential,» SPCA managing director Peter Kelly said.

On one hand, Food manufacturers are being subjected to ever greater pressure from customers while on the other hand they have to remain profitable and competitive.

«We also partnered with entrepreneurs to launch two food companies from scratch to address the greatest areas of need in animal - product replacement: First, Good Dot launched in the summer of 2017 and is bringing price - competitive plant - based chicken and mutton to India, where demand is skyrocketing; second, debuting in early 2018, SeaCo (aka Good Catch) will introduce delicious plant - based alternatives to fish such as tuna.»

Australian Dairy Farms intends to convert its six Victorian dairy farms to organic production in the first step of the plan, which the company hopes will transform it from a minor player in the highly competitive conventional milk market to a major player in organic food products.

A number of factors could cause actual results or outcomes to differ materially from those indicated by such forward - looking statements, including but not limited to, (1) our ability to open new restaurants and food and beverage locations in current and additional markets, grow and manage growth profitably, maintain relationships with suppliers and obtain adequate supply of products and retain our key employees; (2) factors beyond our control that affect the number and timing of new restaurant openings, including weather conditions and factors under the control of landlords, contractors and regulatory and / or licensing authorities; (3) changes in applicable laws or regulations; (4) the possibility that the Company may be adversely affected by other economic, business, and / or competitive factors; and (5) other risks and uncertainties indicated from time to time in our filings with the SEC, including our Annual Report on Form 10 - K filed on March 30, 2016 and our Quarterly Report on Form 10 - Q filed on August 15, 2016.

[31] An argument has been made that the National School Lunch Act prohibits school districts from using federal reimbursements to pay for competitive foods, but this does not reflect USDA's position.

The discrepancy seems to arise from considering the revenues associated with competitive foods without considering the costs associated with providing them.

But if schools set prices without including a share of such costs, revenues may not be sufficient to cover the total costs of competitive foods, resulting in a funding gap that must be filled from other sources, including federal funds.

[26] A more recent USDA study found that, on average, revenue from the sale of competitive foods during the 2005 - 2006 school year covered only 71 percent of the reported cost of providing such food.

If schools want to offer competitive foods, the revenue from the sales of such food (and any non-federal revenues that state or local governments or school districts choose to provide) should cover the costs, without federal cross-subsidies.

In this study, competitive foods were referred to as «nonreimbursable food sales» and included a la carte (individual) items, adult meals, food items from vending machines, and catered food.

Croydon and Lambeth have emerged from a competitive selection process as London's Flagship Food Boroughs, an action in the School Food Plan.

Schools raise substantial dollars from selling competitive foods; 30 percent of high schools raised more than $ 125,000 annually.

For the reasons well articulated in another letter submitted to this agency, written by Michele Simon and Andrew Kimbrell on behalf of the Center for Food Safety, I believe that our children would be better served if competitive foods and beverages were entirely eliminated from school campuses.

But, she said, distribution — getting food from farm fields to school plates for a competitive price — is a challenge.

The Abbey Group is large enough to be able to buy large quantities of food at competitive prices and distribute it to various schools — and is already sourcing 30 percent of its food regionally, from Vermont and New Hampshire; the percentage goes up to 40, Hansen said, if milk is included.

The SNA is also asking USDA to extend the comment period on the new competitive food rules which, if they go into effect as planned on July 1st, will represent the first meaningful regulation of snack foods on school campuses, everything from vending machine offerings to the items offered in cafeteria «a la carte» lines.

Cafeterias sell competitive foods not because SNA members are out to ruin kids» health with snacks of questionable value, but because a $ 3 per free lunch payment from the government is not, in many cases, enough to cover the costs of putting that meal on the table, and more revenue has to come from somewhere.

«Since 2003, I have had the pleasure to work with thousands of schools across the country to improve competitive foods before there was a policy to do so and have personally seen the beneficial transformative effect that occurs when a school goes from junk - food vending to healthy vending.

Competitive foods are any foods or beverages sold in schools separate from the federally funded school meal programs.

Yesterday's move may have been a belated response to that petition, but it also clearly reflects a general societal trend away from highly processed foods that has sent many Kraft consumers toward all - natural competitive brands, such as Annie's mac - n - cheese.

Vilsack said that the Agriculture Department's general counsel has determined that the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act «specifically prohibits me from granting a waiver that relates to the nutritional content of program meals served or the sale of competitive foods.»

The USDA issued nutrition standards for school meals early in 2012, but it's taken this long to issue the ones for competitive foods, no doubt because of the expected uproar from food and drink producers whose products will now be excluded.

Jamie Chriqui, Ph.D., Bridging the Gap, discussed findings from research on the effect of state laws and district policies related to competitive foods.

At long last the USDA released Interim Final Rules for competitive foods — the snacks and sodas sold from vending machines and carts outside of federally supported school lunches.

Children from low - income families are especially harmed by the presence of competitive foods.

Joey Chestnut, the 32 - year - old renowned competitive food eating champion from San Jose, Calif., ate his way through 188 wings to edge out Nigerian - born Gideon Oji to win the U.S. Chicken Wing Eating Championship in Buffalo for the third consecutive year.

By copying the appearance of larger, socially dominant woodpecker species, it reduces the aggression and competitive interference that it receives from them and has more access to food resources as a result.

Rather, these initiatives are driven by a variety of factors, ranging from the persistent perception that such foods are somehow «unnatural» and potentially dangerous to the desire to gain competitive advantage by legislating attachment of a label meant to alarm.

This project was supported by the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative Competitive Grants Program (grant number 2012 -67013-19460) from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture, USDA Hatch program funds to multiple researchers in this project, NSF Plant Genome Research Project # 1238014, the USDA - ARS, the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, the Iowa Corn Promotion Board, the Nebraska Corn Board, the Minnesota Corn Research and Promotion Council, the Illinois Corn Marketing Board, and the National Corn Growers Association.

A first violation leads to a fine of no less than one week's revenue from the sale of «competitive foods,» such as vending - machine snacks sold alongside federally approved meals.

Competitive foods are any foods or beverages sold in schools separate from the federally funded school meal programs.

In a competitive pet food market saturated with anything from premium kibble touting organic, antioxidant - rich, grain - free and gluten - free formulas to elaborate home - cooked fare delivered to your doorstep, trying to sell the idea of good ol' fresh ingredients can be a challenge.

Sometimes pets can be competitive and a feline will eat as quickly as she can, to prevent a rival from devouring her food.

Being full of desirable animals makes shelters competitive with pet stores that get their inventory from puppy mills, where dogs are often mistreated, overbred and forced to spend their lives in cages without adequate access to food, water or veterinary care.

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Separating the dog from other household animals while feeding can reduce competitive eating and food sharing as well.

Separating the cat from other household animals while feeding can reduce competitive eating and food sharing as well.

Rather ironically, I stumbled on this dog food amid a tour (I am a journalist) of Pet Businesses... What's more remarkable is the fact that after switching from a leading competitive brand to Venture, Lincoln is no longer waiting by his dish all day long - constantly hungry.

In this respect, it is difficult to understand why food truck operators should be subject to competitive restrictions not imposed on traditional restaurants or why bricks and mortar restaurants should be insulated from food truck competition.