Press Release Air Canada today announced a partnership with award-winning Canadian chef Antonio Park to design destination-inspired meals that will be exclusively featured on select Air Canada flights to Asia and South America. Chef Park’s designs will complement chef David Hawksworth’s and will guide Air Canada’s flight caterers in creating a selection of meal options […]
Press Release A culinary team led by Sodexo Canada’s executive chef Stephen Lee will fuel the world’s top athletes competing this summer at the Pan American and Parapan American Games in Lima, Peru. Running from July 26 to August 11 and from August 23 to September 1, the Lima 2019 Pan Am and Parapan Am […]
Press Release Cora Breakfast and Lunch is proud to announce that the brand is now a valued partner of Canadian airline WestJet. The onboard breakfast meal, served in Premium cabin on morning flights, is now provided by Cora. It is a satisfying mark of confidence in the Canadian breakfast pioneer. WestJet has been offering Cora […]
Press Release Today, Food Network celebrity chef Corbin Tomaszeski unveiled his new signature menu items created specifically for Chartwells, the foodservice provider for schools in Ontario and Atlantic Canada. Current, fun, sophisticated and anything but boring, these new menu items aren’t your parent’s school lunches! Students at Sacred Heart High School will assume the role of judge as they taste […]
By Doug Radkey Day after day, foodservice providers in hotels, schools, hospitals, convention centres, casinos and other large facilities prepare and serve hundreds, sometimes thousands, of meals to their unique guests. Managing those numbers requires a corresponding volume of human resources, sales data, inventory and multiple menus as well as the support of effective leaders […]
By Gregory Furgala Sheldon Gould would probably forgive you if you think the food in retirement communities is boring, bland or just plain bad. It’s not that it’s well-deserved — it isn’t — it’s just all too common, so he’s used to it. Gould is the COO of Delmanor, a community of retirement residences in […]
From the summer 2018 issue of Canadian Restaurant & Foodservice News By Jill Carte Imagine the following scenario: A Canadian school district comprised of 20 different schools serves at least one — if not two — meals a day to 50,000 school children. Because Canada, like the U.S. and many other parts of the world, […]
In its recently released 2017 Canadian Institutional Foodservice Market Report, fsSTRATEGY estimates total gross revenues in institutional foodservice in Canada in 2016 to be $8.5 billion or 10 per cent of total Canadian foodservice industry sales. Approximately 54 per cent of the institutional foodservice market is operated by management and staff directly employed by institutions. […]
By Geoff Wilson Despite growth in healthcare and education, overall institutional foodservice sales in Canada declined in 2015, reflecting the significant influence that demographic, economic and even environmental factors can have on this major sector of the Canadian foodservice industry. According to fsSTRATEGY’s newly released 2016 Canadian Institutional Foodservice Market Report, total Canadian institutional foodservice […]
