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Eastern Standard Provisions expands its retail reach across the U.S.

The producer, specializing in soft pretzels and waffles, now sells at 2,700+ stores.




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Evergreen debuts new brand look and product formulations

Since its inception in early 2020, Evergreen has offered an expanding range of waffles and breakfast sandwiches that are ready in minutes.




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Beech-Nut Nutrition Company launches new snacks for babies, toddlers

Beech-Nut Nutrition Company is debuting new food and snack innovations made with ingredients like prebiotics, whole milk yogurt, fruits, and veggies.




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Marson Foods opens $35M waffle bakery, distribution center

The owners of the company operated Nature’s Bakery before selling to Kind Snacks.




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Eggo debuts protein-packed waffles, custom sneakers

New Eggo Fully Loaded Waffles inspired Eggo's collab with The Surgeon to drop the first-ever Eggo Fully Loaded Kicks in two colorways: Chocolate Chip Brownie and Strawberry Delight.




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How to measure your food safety climate

Ever since Frank Yiannas of Walmart's Food Safety Leadership published his insightful book "Food Safety Culture" in 2008, the food and beverage industry has embraced the reality that having a strong food safety culture is essential for success.




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Practical tips to excel at snack and bakery facility food safety audits

The more plant personnel who participate in your facility’s food safety audit, the better. These educational experiences allow your staff to engage with the audit process and improve their food safety knowledge.




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How does air affect food safety in snack and bakery facilities?

The air around your product should be maintained just like all equipment and product itself. The air intake system should be part of your sanitary design program, evaluating the design to ensure inspection and cleaning hatches are installed at various points for proper maintenance.




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Preparing for impending FSMA regulatory deadlines

Do you have your food defense plan in place? July 26, 2019 is the compliance deadline for the FDA's final rule on Mitigation Strategies to Protect Food Against International Adulteration under the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA).




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Managing snack and bakery recalls and traceability to comply with FSMA

If your food safety plan has identified critical control points and/or preventive controls per your hazard analysis, the FDA'’s Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) requires you to have a documented recall program.




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Regulatory perspectives on labeling coconut and sesame as allergens

The Food Allergen Labeling and Consumer Protection Act of 2004 (FALCPA) identified eight major food allergen categories that accounted for more than 90 percent of all documented food allergies in the U.S.




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Traceability and recall planning: a necessary exercise

There is never a "good" time to initiate a recall. But the worst time is when you are forced to remove unsafe food from commerce and haven’t effectively planned for it.




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Bakery kill-step validation drives consumer confidence

Though the baking industry has a very safe record for the production of shelf-stable food products, Salmonella continues to be a pathogen of concern.




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Top U.S. foodservice trends

Snack-oriented foods and baked goods continue to drive top levels of growth in foodservice today.




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Thomas’ Grillers XL English Muffins

The Thomas' brand debuts a new kind of English muffin this grilling season by transforming their iconic breakfast staple into a larger summer bun. 




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Dunkin' Donuts breakfast sandwich

Dunkin' Donuts recently introduced a new breakfast sandwich.




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Geefree gluten-free sausage, egg, and cheese breakfast pocket

Geefree's gluten-free puff pastry wraps around a combination of sausage, scrambled eggs, and cheddar cheese - all of the flavor, and none of the gluten. 




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Johnsonville Premium Breakfast Sandwich collection

Johnsonville has introduced its Premium Breakfast Sandwich Collection, which features five new signature hand-held breakfast options.




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Dunkin' Donuts Santa doughnut and Sweet Black Pepper Bacon breakfast sandwich

It’s time for seasoned greetings at Dunkin’ Donuts!




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Dunkin' Donuts seasonal breakfast sandwiches

Dunkin’ Donuts’ new Brown Sugar Chipotle Bacon Breakfast Sandwich features the brand’s newest take on seasoned bacon, following such recent offerings as Sweet Black Pepper Bacon and Maple Sugar Bacon




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Dunkin' Donuts Comet Candy Donut and Smoked Sausage Breakfast Sandwich

Dunkin’ Donuts is reaching for the stars this summer with a colorful new doughnut inspired by the cosmos. 




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Bantam Bagels Egg Bites

NYC’s mini stuffed bagels are now stuffed with soft scrambled egg and cheese! Featured Shark Tank entrepreneurs Nick & Elyse Oleksak, continue to revolutionize frozen breakfast with the newest innovation from Bantam Bagels: Bantam Egg Bites!




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Dunkin' Hershey's Cookies 'N' Creme doughnut and Sweet BBQ Bacon Breakfast Sandwich

Summer is about enjoying a little sweetness and finding time to stop and savor the season with tastes and treats that make for moments of fun and happiness.




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Mikey's Breakfast Pockets

Mikey’s, creator of better-for-you pizza pockets, tortillas and baked goods, is giving Americans a reason to fall in love with breakfast again with the launch of its new frozen Breakfast Pockets at Natural Products Expo East.




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Dunkin' Beyond Sausage sandwich

Dunkin’ has marked a major step in making plant-based menu options easily accessible to Americans everywhere, announcing plans for the nationwide rollout of its highly-anticipated Beyond Sausage Sandwich.




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Cumberland Farms French Toast Breakfast Sandwich

Cumberland Farms is rolling out this year’s holiday flavored products to celebrate the jolly season.




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Dunkin's fall menu arrives August 19

As people begin to crave the comfort and coziness of autumn, Dunkin’ is bringing America the familiar and favorite flavors of the season by making its much-anticipated fall lineup available earlier than ever before.




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Dunkin' Sourdough Breakfast Sandwich

One of the simplest ways to create joy, connect with others, and celebrate special moments is the universal act of offering cheers.




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Dunkin' Dunkfetti Donut, Stuffed Bagel Minis, and Southwest Veggie Power Breakfast Sandwich

Dunkin' recently released its Dunkfetti Donut and Stuffed Bagel Minis, in December 2020, and its Southwest Veggie Power Breakfast Sandwich, in January 2021.




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Mason Dixie clean-label Breakfast Sandwich collection

Known for their better-for-you frozen baked goods, Mason Dixie Foods will debut the first clean-label biscuit breakfast sandwich at store locations across the U.S. this May, including Whole Foods Market.




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Carl's Jr. & Hardee's ramp up chicken menu with new biscuit and waffle sandwiches

Carl's Jr. and Hardee's are introducing their brand-new Hand-Breaded Chicken Sandwich platform, reimagining their famous Hand-Breaded Chicken Tenders into new craveable builds available to fans nationwide morning, noon and night.




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Brazi Bites Latin-Inspired Homestyle Breakfast Sandwiches

Brazi Bites has announced the launch of its new Homestyle Breakfast Sandwiches in four varieties: Bacon, Turkey Sausage, Double Egg and Turkey Bacon.




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Dunkin' rereleases pumpkin bakery items, breakfast sandwich, snacking bacon

Dunkin’ is rereleasing its pumpkin bakery line-up of treats plus its Maple Sugar Bacon Breakfast sandwich, and a twist on its Snackin' Bacon.




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Tim Hortons releases Maple Waffle Breakfast Sandwich

The sandwich features sweet and crispy maple flavored waffles with sizzling bacon or sausage, melted American cheese, and a freshly cracked egg.




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Mason Dixie Foods launches Cheddar Biscuit Sandwich in Costco

The 8-count box retails for $14.99 and is available at all locations throughout the Midwest. 




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Circle K brings new Godzilla movie to life with limited-edition food lineup

Circle K partners with Warner Bros., Legendary Pictures to bring Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire to life.




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Red's launches ciabatta, English muffin, croissant sandwiches

Over the next few months, the brand will be rolling out a range of new products, including Ciabatta Sandwiches, English Muffin Sandwiches, and Croissant Sandwiches.




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2018's buzzwords: organic, fresh, artisan, better-for-you, and value

As we enter 2018, five instrumental movements within snack and bakery rise to the top of my mind: organic, fresh, artisan, better-for-you and value.




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Bakers seek new bread ideas, seasonal flavors

Baking bread is a balancing act, and any change in ingredients and technique can shift the outcome of a loaf in ways that affect flavor, volume and structure.




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State of the Industry 2018: Frozen pizza grows thanks to product diversity

When it comes to pizza, consumers aren't lukewarm: Those who like it are committed to their favorite convenient meal. According to Mintel's latest U.S. pizza market report, more than one-third of consumers who purchase frozen pizza from their local grocery store do so two or three times a month or more.




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Interest in heirloom and heritage grains rises

Interest in "slower" food and deeper connections to food sources has brought heirloom tomatoes, heritage breeds of livestock, and ancient and heirloom grains to the fore.




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Grain diversity helps build a bigger toolbox for bakers

It has never been a better time to be in artisan baking. We are living in a time of heirloom wheat rediscovery and renewed appreciation for ancient grains.




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Artisan bread: quality in demand

From a philosophical point of view, the notion of "quality" has formed a focus since the days of Aristotle. He saw quality as tied to the very nature of an object. Other thinkers through the years more prone to subjectivity brought relative




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Publican Quality Bread defines artisan baking in Chicago

Some people place such a high emphasis on quality that they hang their shingle on it, like Publican Quality Bread has in Chicago. Just bite into any of the signature artisan breads the bakery distributes to restaurants throughout the city and you'll have all the personal experience you need to define quality bread for yourself.




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Exclusive interview: Spinato's, on frozen pizzas and broccoli crust

We recently were able to talk to Anthony Spinato, president of Spinato's Fine Foods, Tempe, AZ, about their new broccoli pizza crust and other frozen pizza aspects. 




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Almonds in Nashville: Food trends tour

A few weeks ago, I was able to fly to Nashville for a few days to participate in the Almond Board of California's annual food trends tour.




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New formulation strategies for bakery snacks

Bakery snacks saw a relatively flat year per IRI, Chicago, with 0.16 percent growth to $3.4 billion. Grupo Bimbo far outperformed the category average, though, with growth of 14.48 percent to $249.4 million.




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Strategies for growing U.S. bread sales

David DelGhingaro, president, Brolite Products, provides some fresh perspective on how to breathe new life into the bread category.




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Inside the momentum for ‘Craft’ bakery

The 2019 Taste/Tomorrow event that took place in Chicago from May 1 to 2 provided a platform for Puratos to release its latest body of independent global research into top bakery, patisserie and chocolate trends shaping today's marketplace.




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Bakery predictions for 2020

Snack Food & Wholesale Bakery was recently able to talk to Jonathan Davis, SVP of innovation, La Brea Bakery, Los Angeles, about upcoming bakery trends for 2020.