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...American Express—the most expensive [credit card]—only charges 4.5 percent. Where do they come up with the nerve to [charge so much]?” said Cardullo, the president of Cardullo’s Gourmet Shoppe in Harvard Square, while checking out a steady stream of customers on Saturday at the specialty foods store...
Caviar, foie gras and some other luxury food items may soon be harder to come by. It's not the scarcity or the cost; it's the proliferation of regulatory roadblocks. A look at some recent snafus at the gourmet counter...
Juan Valdez, the fictitious coffee grower created in 1959 to help put Colombian coffee on the map, is trying to spiff up his image. In the face of dirt-cheap international wholesale prices and consumers' increasingly gourmet taste, the National Federation of Coffee Growers of Colombia is hoping to cash in on the Starbucks phenomenon with a five-year, $75 million marketing campaign to reposition its coffee as an upscale brand. While still supplying such supermarket stalwarts as Maxwell House and Folgers, the Colombian coffee industry is struggling to make itself relevant to younger generations of consumers who pooh-pooh...
Deck trinkets for the gourmet crowd include a $1,700 ice cream maker and a giant rotisserie grill. This KitchenAid boasts a fridge, a sink...
...bucks for an in-flight meal recently? That's because cost-cutting airlines don't want to pay for expensive food anymore. So the now empty-handed caterers are going after your business directly. Leading the way are two of the industry's biggest caterers, Switzerland-based Gate Gourmet Group Inc. and Germany-based LSG Sky Chefs. "Before, our customer was the airline," says David Siegel, former president and CEO of US Airways Group Inc. and Gate Gourmet's newly appointed chairman and CEO. "Now, it is the passenger." How do passengers feel about forking over money for food? Dalene...