New weekly posts, briefings and operator perspectives from the PPP Corps team and our category specialists — written for the executives accountable for the outcome.
USDA's October 2026 forecast, the BLS realized prints, and how foodservice operators should read beef prices and category inflation before 2027 budgets.
Premier negotiates national foodservice agreements, a sponsor activates them on your account, and your distributor keeps delivering. How that works.
How to calculate food cost per resident day, what USDA's September 2026 forecast changed, and where multi-community operators still have room.
Residential dining is a recruitment differentiator. Here is how the country's most respected universities are absorbing food inflation without compromising the student experience that fills their halls.
A market basket review is more than a price comparison. Here is what a disciplined focused analysis actually surfaces — and why most operators are surprised by what they learn about their own contracts.
Multi-year food inflation has reshaped hotel and resort F&B margin structure. Six purchasing strategies that protect the guest experience while restoring profitability.
Food is where operators usually start. It is rarely where the largest opportunities live. A category-by-category look at the spend lines that quietly compound — and what to do about them.
Resident satisfaction, surveyor expectations and operating-margin pressure all converge on the dining program. Visibility into purchasing is the operational lever that unlocks all three.
Group business is back to pre-2020 levels, but banquet F&B margin has not followed. A category-by-category playbook for hospitality operators rebuilding profitability without compromising the guest standard.
Camp directors steward donor dollars, registration revenue and the table experience that defines a week. Disciplined purchasing is how the most thoughtful camps protect all three at once.
Most operators have more data than they realize and less insight than they need. A practical look at the analytics layer that separates reactive cost-cutting from durable margin discipline.
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