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Written by James Ringrose
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 Two days, a lot of expense and not much to show for it, pretty much sums up the CT Hospitality Expo. This was the reaction of many of the vendors who ventured out the day after Labor Day to show their wares to the Connecticut foodservices community.
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Written by Christine St. Pierre
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This ice-cream loving chef prefers to buy local as much as he can. As executive chef of 33 Restaurant & Lounge and STIX in Boston, Peter Eco believes in supporting local, artisanal producers. "Picking fruit and vegetables before they're ripe isn't doing anything good for anyone," he explains. I just came back from France and the markets there absolutely fried my mind-they're that good. I saw raspberries that actually made me tear up. They cost almost $1 each, but I could smell them from 10 feet away and it was the most intense, beautiful smell."
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Written by Tom Kelley and Denis Sparagis
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 Alliances. It is the one simple word that successful operators have realized truly matters in both good and challenging times. As your business navigates the leaner times ahead, consider the following recommendations...
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Written by James Ringrose
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 Last night was the opening party for the new Davio's at Patriot Place. Graced by the likes of Mr Kraft himself and the Davio's team, the place was packed with literally hundreds of interested potential customers, the usual crowd of industry notables and not so notables and of course the ubiquitous Mr Kraft.
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Written by James Ringrose
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There's no hotter subject than "going green". We scoured the show floor to see if there were any new or innovative products that carried the green moniker. Here's the best of the ones we located.
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Written by James Ringrose
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One of the better ways to find the best, most interesting or tastiest products at a show is to look for the boothsgetting teh most interest. Below are our current "most popular" booths so far. We didn'tinclude the beverage section, mainly because we can't test their wares until after the show closes, so we won't know what's hot there for a while.
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Written by Christine St. Pierre
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This year’s CT Hospitality Expo promises to be fun, fresh and exciting. And with a change of venue from Hartford to Mohegan Sun, Jim Farrell, vice president of the CT Restaurant Association, expects upwards of 5,000 attendees this year held after Labor Day weekend on September 2 and 3, 2008.
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