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18 January 2020 at 09 : 39 AM
What Restaurants Will Look Like This Year – And Beyond?
INDUSTRY TRENDS By Maria Benardis The trend-driven nature of our business means that restaurateurs are often forced to look up from their long to-do lists and take a pulse on what’s happening in the industry. For those who don’t have the time to do their own research, Estiator rounded up the current and foreseeable future trends that will make ...
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14 December 2019 at 15 : 56 PM
A Woman’s Place is in the (Restaurant) Kitchen
COVER STORY How Greek women chefs are changing the culinary landscape. By Maria Benardis It’s ironic that, historically, women have been told their place is in the kitchen, yet when you take a look at the restaurant industry, it has been long dominated by male chefs. So much so that Bloomberg News recently observed that it’s ...
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10 October 2019 at 07 : 14 AM
Fast Casual Goes Greek
COVER STORY GREEK CONCEPTS DRIVE HEALTHY QSR TRENDS By Maria Benardis Americans are a people on the go, and, for the past 50 years, their need for fast food has grown, reflecting a fast-paced and often frantic lifestyle that leaves little time for cooking—pick up the kids from school, bring them to music lessons, back to the house to do homework, ...
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10 September 2019 at 03 : 23 AM
Transparency Drives Upper New York’s Pan Gregorian to Success
COVER STORY With the purchasing cooperative’s user-friendly systems, its members can follow the dollars to their bottom line. BY CONSTANTINE N. KOLITSAS Talk to a member of the Pan Gregorian Enterprises of Upper New York (PGEUNY) purchasing cooperative and you’ll hear the same conviction: “If it weren’t for the cooperative, we would not ...
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10 July 2019 at 03 : 12 AM
Cover Story: Exploring Greece’s Craft Cocktail Scene
SPIRITS OF ATHENS EXPLORING GREECE'S CRAFT COCKTAIL SCENE With craft cocktails moving out from the largest metropolises in the U.S., to suburban points and beyond, Estiator thought to take our readers on a “bar crawl” of sorts, visiting the most notable watering holes in the Greek capital and digging into the craft that has earned them the reputation ...
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11 June 2019 at 06 : 08 AM
Cover Story: Greek Specialty Products
PASS THE OLIVE OIL, WINE, CHEESE AND YOGURT, PLEASE... America’s Interest in Greek Specialty Products Continues to Grow by Constantine Kolitsas WITH the 2019 New York Fancy Food Show coming at the end of June, Greek food specialty companies will again have a venue with which they can connect to wholesalers and distributors that can get their products ...
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15 May 2019 at 07 : 45 AM
There’s No “I” in Devanco
COVER STORY | By Constantine N. Kolitsas Team, Culture of Family, and a Sense of Common Purpose Equate to Growth as the Gyro and Specialty Foods Maker Expands its Operations and Product Lines [caption id="attachment_7182" align="aligncenter" width="651"] From the left: Evan Bartizis (General Manager), George Kanavos (Regional Sales Manager), Peter Kanavos ...
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8 April 2019 at 13 : 31 PM
Vassilaros & sons Celebrates a Centennial
The Name That’s Not On the Cup – Yet Vassilaros & sons Celebrates a Centennial, and sets Course for the Future ■ By Constantine n. Kolitsas Their coffee has fueled New York’s movers and shakers, workers, politicians, first responders and businessmen for a century. It’s given energy to the workers that erected the George Washington ...
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10 March 2019 at 11 : 32 AM
It’s the Year of the Gyro – and Olympia Foods Is Ready
COVER STORY ESTIATOR TOURS THE GREEK PRODUCT GIANT’S NEW FACILITY FOR AMERICA’S NEWEST FOOD LOVE AFFAIR By CONSTANTINE N. KOLITSAS JANUARY is a time for predictions and plans; a time when we take stock of The Year That Was and look forward to The Year Ahead. At Estiator, we predict 2019 will be The Year of the Gyros; and our ...
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15 February 2019 at 10 : 55 AM
Is the Restaurant Industry Ready?
ONE WORD: A HEALTHIER WAY OF LIFE Anyone who has walked into a grocery store in the last few years will not be surprised at the premise that consumption of organic foods has been growing dramatically. Increased availability, increased affordability and an increased number of healthconscious consumers have brought the segment from being a novelty ...
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