Foodservice

New Skip Express Lanes offering will bypass convenience stores and sell goods directly to consumers.

"Conscious consumption: Offering Canadians convenience without compromise" will delve into key macro trends shaping consumers’ consumption choices and examine how the industry can be inspired and empowered to meet these needs as a framework for growth.

Food prices are on the rise.

How Canadians’ pandemic experience is transforming eating patterns

Regent Park store offers take-out service in partnership with Paramount Fine Foods.

There are A&W foodservice locations in more than 60 Petro-Canada sites across six provinces.

Pita Pit operates 225 restaurants in Canada, including franchises located in select gas stations.

Toronto is the first Canadian market for the five-year-old company, which works with partners to sell surplus food at a discount

Some of its brands, including Country Style and Mr. Sub express concepts, are franchised and co-located with convenience and gas bars across the country. 

High shipping rates, delays and increases in grain costs have sent food prices soaring for restaurants and, in turn, c-stores offering foodservice.

McCain Foods Ltd. has set a target to source its potatoes from farms using sustainable agriculture by the end of the decade. The company said Monday 100% of its potato fields - representing 149,733 hectares worldwide - will be grown using regenerative agriculture by 2030.

U.S.-based family business operations more than 600 convenience, cafe and fuel locations.

The pandemic has strengthened calls for businesses to provide workers with paid sick leave, as workplaces become a key site for the virus' transmission.

Report outlines key flavours influencing consumer demand and produce development.

Convenience giant plans to open nearly 150 restaurants across the U.S. in 2021.

Drive-thru windows - available in nearly all U.S. stores - remain a competitive advantage.

The rise of plant-based eating in Canada is an opportunity to grow the snack and beverage category.

MTY also operates foodservice at convenience and gas stations. 

The second wave of implementation will expand the program to 3,000 more stores throughout North America during fiscal 2022.

Rather than ‘if’, the question for c-store operators in the future will be ‘what’ and ‘when’ to add. Be prepared to move quickly to adopt vending technology when the market is established.

Dépanneur Messek expands and innovates to serve the Innu people living along Quebec’s rugged North Shore.

Plant-based food company Beyond Meat will be partnering with several major fast-food chains in the coming years to expand offerings that could eventually include plant-based burgers, chalupas or toppings on a stuffed-crust pizza.

Building on a partnership first announced last year, Rabba Fine Foods has launched the Paramount Butcher counter inside its Meadowvale Town Centre Circle location in Mississauga, Ont.

In an interview with Convenience Store News Canada, Rick Rabba shares insights into how Rabba Fine Foods becomes a part of the neighbourhoods it serves, lessons learned from COVID and the values his father taught him about operating a successful business.