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Lessons in local food safety

Lessons in local food safety

Without the resources of large corporations, operators are taking extra steps to ensure diners’ health. Local sourcing helps operators tell a story with their ingredients, but after an E. coli...
Robots Transform Prescription Filling

Robots Transform Prescription Filling

A hospital at the University of California San Francisco Medical Center has a robot filling prescriptions. The $15 million system works like this: a doctor writes out an electronic prescription....
Ebola threatens chocolate

Ebola threatens chocolate

Ebola is threatening much of the world’s chocolate supply. Ivory Coast, the world’s largest producer of cacao, the raw ingredient in M&M’s, Butterfingers and Snickers Bars, has shut down its...

Giving Breakfast A Boost!

For what many acknowledge as the most important meal of the day, Burlodge has invested a significant amount of time in researching and developing a breakfast cart that could meet...
LEAN Thinking Drives Burlodge

LEAN Thinking Drives Burlodge

The Serious Savings behind Improved Ergonomics and Efficiencies As the saying goes, ‘Change your perspective and you can change your world.’ At Burlodge, we actively embrace that thinking by continually...
Apples & Entrées for Institutions

Apples & Entrées for Institutions

THE WORKSHOP This event combines two local food projects that use institutional buying power to catalyze innovation in the regional food system.  Discussions around “apple product development & marketing to...