Food/Restaurants News
05/14/12 More than 110,000 boxes of "Fastball Flakes," featuring the image of Detroit Tigers pitcher Justin Verlander, have been sold since the limited-edition frosted corn flake cereal was launched in February.
05/13/12 Henry Ford Health System has terminated its patient food service and retail food contract with Aramark Healthcare at all five of its hospitals, effective June 30, Aramark said in an April 25 letter to the Michigan Workforce Development Agency.
05/13/12 Eric Ersher, founder and CEO of Southfield-based Zoup! Systems LLC, lets his ideas simmer before taking them to market -- and the wait is paying off.
05/13/12 When Sandy Pierce, president of the Charter One branches in Michigan, passes out a business card, it says in big letters at the top: "RBS Citizens." So why do the signs out in front of banks still say "Charter One"?
05/11/12 Henry Ford Health System in Detroit has terminated its patient food service and retail food contract with Aramark Healthcare at all five of its hospitals, effective June 30, Aramark said in an April 25 letter to the Michigan Workforce Development Agency.
05/07/12 LANSING (AP) — The head of Domino's Pizza Inc. says Michigan needs to invest more in higher education to better compete with states like North Carolina.
05/01/12 After acquiring Delphos, Ohio-based I&K Distributors Inc. in April, food distributor Lipari Foods Inc. is shuttering the plant and consolidating its operations in Lipari's Warren headquarters.
04/30/12 John Lambrecht, the owner of Bookies Bar & Grill behind the Fox Theatre and Fountain Bistro in Campus Martius, plans a major food truck rally on Cinco de Mayo in the area directly behind Bookies.
04/20/12 Reddy Ice Holdings Corp. expects to give a group of shareholders $1 million and a group of retailers nothing to wrap up two long-running federal lawsuits in Detroit, under its plan of reorganization entered in U.S. Bankruptcy Court.
04/17/12 Common sense prevails.
04/17/12 Elk Rapids based Short's Brewing Co. is moving some of its operations into a 12,000-square-foot-building in Wixom.
04/15/12 Some of the produce for Detroit's forthcoming Whole Foods Market will come from Eastern Market as well as food from Detroit-based suppliers, Walter Robb, CEO of Whole Foods Market Inc. said in a speech to the Detroit Economic Club.
04/15/12 The food and agriculture industry contributes about $91.4 billion to Michigan's economy, according to a Michigan State University study released last week. In 2004, the industry was valued at $60.1 billion.
04/13/12 The forthcoming Whole Foods Market in Detroit is expected to bring business to local food suppliers.
04/10/12 Olga's Kitchen is opening Monday inside of the Compuware Building in the space formerly occupied by The Woodward.
04/08/12 When Elyse and Frank Germack III, owners of Detroit-based Germack Pistachio Co., decided to move the 88-year-old company a quarter of a mile up the road in Eastern Market, they did so with an eye on the future.
04/03/12 NEW YORK (AP) — Domino's Pizza Inc. is putting its foot down with finicky customers.
04/01/12 Workers at the headquarters of the newly formed Epicurean Group in downtown Detroit were busy making sure the receipts at the restaurants have been changed over from Matt Prentice Restaurant Group -- one of the many changes that have to take place as the company forges its new identity.
04/01/12 The local-food movement in northern Michigan no longer is simply a neat idea, it is becoming an economic necessity. The problem is that the infrastructure has yet to catch up with the idea.
03/30/12 Workers at the headquarters of the newly formed Epicurean Group in downtown Detroit were busy making sure the receipts at the restaurants have been changed over from Matt Prentice Restaurant Group — one of the many changes that have to take place as the company forges its new identity.
03/29/12 Matt Prentice has left his namesake restaurant group, two restaurant industry sources say.
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03/28/12 The local-food movement in northern Michigan no longer is simply a neat idea. It is fast becoming recognized as an economic necessity.
03/25/12 When Jacques Driscoll bought Green Dot Stables and its liquor license last July, he was certain he could have the equine-themed bar at Lafayette and 14th Street in Detroit up and running by October.
03/21/12 The owner of CJ Mahoney’s, a popular sports bar from the suburbs, is bringing his bar to Detroit, just in time for Opening Day.
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This Just In: Henry Ford Health drops food contractor