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'Give me mas'

Taco Bell is on a tear to grow from a $7-billion brand to a $14-billion category killer in the next 10 years, CEO Greg Creed told the audience at RLC.

Why food matters: Industry leaders share their smarts

Four luminaries of the restaurant and food industries took the stage at a Culinary Institute of America event last week to share their culinary philosophies and formulas for success. The quartet—Rick Bayless, Cliff Pleau, Daniel Humm and Walter Robb—was there to be honored with a 2013 Augie Leadership Award, a CIA honor now in its seventh year.

Menu applications evolve and change, but one thing is sure to stay the same: How we taste and enjoy those applications.

This summer, Denver-based Qdoba Mexican Grill introduced sweet heat to its menu with the debut of two mango sauces.

The smell of baking bread wafts through the restaurant as customers sit and wait (patiently) for the bread basket to arrive.

Singly and as a harmonious duo, these two herbs share a rich culinary heritage.

A man walks down a New York City street, considering his lunch options when a poster in a Subway window catches his eye.

Foodservice suppliers provide a look at products designed to make an operator’s job easier.

United States glass manufacturers alone will ship over 2 billion wine bottles this year, according to the Glass Packaging Institute. And that’s nothing; Italy and France each produce about double the amount of wine that American wineries do.

Contrary to macaroni myth, Marco Polo did not introduce pasta to Europe from China. As a bas relief of pasta-making tools in a 4th century Etruscan tomb clearly shows, Europeans had known about the stuff for centuries.

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