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USA Today
Bye bacon. So long pumpkin. The buzz words on the tips of diners' tongues in 2016 will be matcha, sambal sauce and rendang curry. Those are among the flavor trends forecast by spice company McCormick to start taking off this year.
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NAC
Join the top food and beverage leaders at THE International Concessions and Hospitality Marketplace. The 2016 Concession & Hospitality Expo will take place on July 19-22 at the Depot Renaissance in Minneapolis. Registration, Hotel Links Trade Show Booths and Sponsorships are now available! The Expo is an educational conference in its 34th year covering a wide range of concessions and foodservice topics. Check back often to see updates as new details emerge. We hope you will join us!
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NAC
There are now two great scholarships available for qualifying first year attendees of The Concession and Hospitality Expo. NAC is pleased to present the President's Expo Scholarship and the Joe Chabot Memorial Expo Scholarship. Each Scholarship Package includes full registration to the Concession & Hospitality Expo, Three night's hotel accommodations at the NAC host hotel and a stipend of up to $300 to be used for transportation to the convention location.
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NAC
SIGN UP NOW. LIMITED TO FIRST 144 GOLFERS! Make your travel plans to arrive early so you can join us for golf just prior to the start of the CinemaCon Convention and Trade Show in Las Vegas. The 32nd Annual Al Lapidus/Variety Boys & Girls Club Scholarship Golf Classic will be held on Monday, April 11 at the beautiful Bali Hai Golf Club just minutes from Caesars Palace!
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NAC
NAC is pleased to welcome new members:
Lisa Cruse
of Grand Ole Opry
Scott Goldberg
of Grand Ole Opry
Convenience Store News
Whether an economic recession or a rebound, consumers are still looking for even the smallest indulgence, boosting growth in the candy category.
According to the National Confectioners Association, among more than 300 product categories across the store, confectionery is growing faster than 184 other categories, with 92 of those actually showing declines.
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Business Insider
For most people, Hershey conjures up images of chocolate bars and peanut-butter cups. Soon, however, the company hopes these visions also include protein "squeezes" and snack bars.
Hershey is expanding its snack business in 2016, with special attention to health products aimed at nutrition-savvy consumers.
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Drug Store News
Candy-maker Mars is looking to give consumers "crispy satisfaction" with the latest addition to its line of Snickers products.
The new Snickers Crisper is filled with crisped rice and peanuts, topped with a layer of caramel and coated in milk chocolate. The bar contains fewer than 200 calories — a first for Snickers — and the singles pack contains two squares, each with fewer than 100 calories.
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Herald-Mail Media
For many years, it seemed like the quest to find more healthful options for snacking at a movie theater was in vain. That tide could be changing as cinemas show some interest in offering alternatives to patrons.
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By Archita Datta Majumdar
 It seems 2016 will be an interesting year for the fast food business. Food and beverage marketing will take on a whole new angle with strategies like innovative labeling and packaging, along with outside-the-box ideas like bundling. The latter is the latest rage that has taken brands by storm. Fast food chains like McDonald's, Burger King and Wendy's have adopted this new strategy to lure in more customers and retain them as they hope to beat rising commodity costs.
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Quartz
Pizza is one of humankind's most holy institutions. But now some enterprising mathematicians want to ruin it, in the name of equality.
Joel Haddley and Stephen Worsley, mathematicians at the University of Liverpool, say they've developed a new method to cut a pie into perfectly equal (if oddly-shaped) slices. The method offers an infinite number of ways to divide a disk into monohedral tilings, which is the scientific way of saying it can divide a pizza into slices that are all the exact same size and shape.
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FoodNavigator.com
Sales of single-serve packages is a rare bright spot in the otherwise beleaguered sweet baked snack category, sales of which are slowing dramatically as consumers reach for healthier options or freshly baked goods when they do indulge, according to Packaged Facts.
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