Meal Assembly Watch

An interesting article to be sure. Rather inaccurate in many respects and loaded with bizarre assumptions and information that has already proven to be false. I wonder what kind of research Jody did in order to prepare for this article? It seems like this is a rehash of the articles written three years ago rearing [...]

Cooking, Henry Ford-style
From Financial Times

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/735541a2-20be-11dc-8d50-000b5df10621.html

“Like most Americans, I was brought up thinking of food as fuel: something that should be prepared and consumed as quickly as possible - an unfortunate distraction from the hard work of living.
Now I demand much more of my meals - but I have even less time to cook them. As [...]

As meal prep booms, a shakeout looms
http://www.sptimes.com/2006/08/02/Columns/As_meal_prep_booms__a.shtml

“People are starving each other out,” says an Oldsmar entrepreneur. Nationwide, average store revenues leave little after rent and expenses.

An older article that actually seems to get it right.

The Meal Blogger
www.mealassemblywatch.com

Technorati : assembly, dinners, dream, dreamdinners, franchise, meal, prep, super, supersuppers, suppers, watch Del.icio.us : [...]

A very good and lengthy discussion about the industry.
http://www.retailwire.com/Discussions/Sngl_Discussion.cfm/115497/20/06 <requires registration>“Meal Assembly - A New Marketing Platform for Brands
New types of retail store formats pop up all the time, but of the concepts of the past few years claiming to be truly unique, meal assembly centers may actually have a point to make. In a [...]

Interesting article about Let’s Dishhttp://www.chainleader.com/blog-dave/031006.asp“Kerry Kramp, the former CEO of Buffets Inc. and an enthusiastic executive, called me to say he’s now running Let’s Dish. Maybe you’ve heard of it–the meal-assembly outfit headquartered in Minneapolis. Funny, Kerry used to run a $1 billion buffet business that employed 28,000 people. Now he’s overseeing four company stores [...]