specialty retail
Drive-Through Bakery
To celebrate its 85th anniversary,
Cincinnati's Busken Bakery has opened
its first Busken Express store. The
drive-through–only store features 20 to
30 bakery items, including fresh doughnuts, cakes and cookies, and a new line
of gourmet coffee and smoothies. The
store, located in Amelia, Ohio, offers
only items that will be ready in less than
a minute. Busken, founded in 1928, has
10 family-owned retail locations in addition to its Express store.
foodservice
United Airlines Boosts
Food Options
Responding to passenger complaints,
United Airlines' executive chef has been
reworking the airline's menu to give
travelers more choice and better taste
in their meal options for flights longer
than 3.5 hours. Executive chef Shashi
Sanamvenkata, who manages United's
catering kitchen at Houston's Bush
Intercontinental Airport, creates recipes for up to 30,000 passengers, taking into consideration how the effects
of altitude and air pressure alter the
way food tastes. The airline's new menu
features breakfast items, sandwiches
and pastas freshly made the same day
they are sold to passengers.
volume retail
Roundy's Reaches Out
to Smaller Farms
Supermarket chain Roundy's, Inc., has
partnered with the regional food center
Wisconsin Food Hub Cooperative to
expand its connections with area producers. Roundy's already has longstanding relationships with many Wisconsin
farms, but the partnership will help it
reach smaller farms that have pooled
their resources through the cooperative, says Steve Jarzombek, Roundy's
vice president of produce. The new
"Something Special from Wisconsin"
program is offered only at Milwaukeebased Roundy's Wisconsin stores.
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