Is Indian out? Is Chinese in?

The National Restaurant Association put these and other questions together when it teamed up with the American Culinary Foundation (ACF) to survey more than 1,200 ACF members.

Nestlé S.A., Vevey, Switzerland, promoted Luis Cantarell to executive vice president and head of Zone Americas, effective in early September. Cantarell ran Nestlé’s global Nutrition business before he was promoted to head of the company's European operations. He succeeds Paul Polman, who left to pursue opportunities at Unilever PLC.

Pure Pacific Organics, a processor of organic fresh-cut products such as baby spinach and spring mix, installed Optyx with FluoRaptor, the new fluorescence-sensing laser sorter from Key Technology.

Approximately 25 percent of Marshall, Minn.-based Schwan Food Co.’s 2006 revenues (totaling about $4 billion) came from the company’s hearty foodservice business.

R&FF:  What has Tyson been doing with third-party carriers?

Keene: We’ve worked toward joint value creation with our common carrier partners for consistent lanes and volumes. We recognize that this allows them to better plan their business.

The new Mettler Toledo PUA679 floor scale allows for quick and easy washdown in sanitary applications.

The vast majority of cold storage warehouses in the United States are large, cavernous buildings with ceilings that are approximately twenty feet high and multiple 12-foot-wide aisles with fork trucks riding in and out of them moving product up and down from the racks.

Honeywell now offers a flexible leasing program for customers with Honeywell Analytics Portables gas detection equipment.

Out with the old and in with the new! With all models of its latest generation (R XX5) thermoformers now available for delivery.

Using specialty plastics, Slideways Inc. now can create custom profiles, chain and belt guides and related components for use in hostile environments.