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One Supermarket Chef’s Keys to Family Meal Success

With National Family Meals Month™ on the horizon, the FMI Foundation sat down to chat with Foodland’s Chef Keoni Chang, winner of the 2014 Supermarket Chef Showdown family meals category and Grand Champion of the 2012 Supermarket Chef ...

How Does Your Company Inspire Families to Share More Meals At Home?

With the nomination deadline for 2015 Gold Plate Awards on the horizon (July 31), we think it’s a great time to share learnings from some of our past Gold Plate Award ...

Video: CEO of Kudrinko's Ltd. Talks Fresh, Family Meals and Knowing the Customer

In a live interview from FMI Connect, Neil Kudrinko, president and CEO of Kudrinko's Ltd. gives an independent operator perspective on fresh, helping families share meals together at home and the importance of knowing your customer....

FMI Connect Has What Your Shoppers Want for Dinner

When shoppers prowl your store’s periphery looking for answers to the question, “What’s for dinner?” they want a few things: They’re looking for something that’s easy to make, healthy for their families, tastes good and puts them right at the center ...

Are You Taller Than An Oven Mitt? See How You Measure Up at FMI Connect

With the first ever NFMM on September’s horizon and a growing roster of enthusiastic supporters, our outreach efforts have been in overdrive. We’re bringing that momentum with us to FMI Connect next month to rally the industry around family meals—a ...

Supermarket Chefs Proving Affordable Family Meals Can Be Extraordinary Meals

Supermarket Chefs know that for their time-strapped, budget-conscious customers, getting a family meal on the table that won’t cause wallets or waistlines to bulge can be a tall order. Supermarket Chefs also know that shoppers often equate “...

IdeaXchange: Fighting for the family meal

The following article ran in the Supermarket News IdeaXChange on April 21, 2015: As one who realizes now that the majority of big decisions I’ve made during my life were shaped by conversations around the family dinner table, I honor the formative ...

Mark Your Calendars: There’s A New Month Coming to Food Retail

As the association of food retailers, FMI is here to help you realize the opportunity. The National Family Meals Month™ Retailer and Manufacturer Toolkits are designed to inspire your unique approach to activation and provide you with the assets ...

Announcing National Family Meals Month

Food retailers are doing more than ever to inspire and support home cooking, from quick dinner solutions, cooking classes and nutrition advice, to shortcuts like pre-prepped ingredients and freshly prepared entrees. That’s why this September the FMI ...

Inspiration Starts at Home

We all feel the pressure to cook and eat more family meals together. The challenges we deal with in our own busy families—out-of-sync schedules, staggered meals, fast food seduction—are the same ones our customers face every week. We know those ...

Making Dinner Simple

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