Food Industry Loss Prevention News                                                                                    June 24, 2016

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Robberies & Theft
Police arrested a man in connection with the June 3 robbery of a downtown Newport News restaurant, police said.  Ozzie Wilson Jr. turned himself in to police on Wednesday, about a week after police positively identified him as the robbery suspect and warrants were obtained, police spokesman Harold Eley said . . . Read More

Cincinnati police shut down three city blocks early Wednesday morning as they searched for a masked man who robbed a Richie's Fast Food Restaurant at gunpoint.  The robbery took place at the Richie's location at 110 Woolper Ave.; the suspect fled down Forest Avenue . . . Read More

Two men - one of them dressed like a stormtrooper - robbed a Church's Chicken in St. Louis at gunpoint Saturday night, police said.  The two men entered the restaurant at 920 North Grand Boulevard around 9:30 p.m., according to police. One was wearing . . . Read More

Food Fraud
It's a terrifying thought that a secret chemical war is being waged on supermarket shelves, yet as Sorting the beef from the bull shows, it's a war that's as old as time itself. From Roman times onward (apparently the Romans were slightly crazy because their . .. Read More

For Simcoe-area beef farmer and meat processor Cory Van Groningen, it's the biggest single factor holding back his industry.  Food fraud and counterfeiting were thrown into the spotlight with the conviction and $1.5 million in fines of a Kingsville company and two of its directors last week for importing greenhouse vegetables and selling them to retail . .. Read More

 

Industry News
The concept of "food tech" is an oxymoron.  Of all the business sectors and human behaviors that technology is changing, food-from farming to shipping, logistics, distributors and restaurants-is oddly resistant. The restaurant industry operates in clusters of small scales . .. Read More

Although "big data" appears a complicated term, it's really just the process of collecting as much data as possible about your customers in order to better serve them. Analyzing big data is vitally important to your business, as it will enable you to better understand. .. Read More


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