PASADENA, Calif. – In March, Flippy the one-armed robot started working at Caliburger in Pasadena, California. However, the robot soon lost its job when it wasn’t able to keep up with demand and couldn’t put cooked burgers on the right tray. Now, Flippy has returned to Caliburger, FOX5NY reports. David Zito with Miso Robotic created Flippy, and said the robot

SEATTLE, Wa. – Is there such thing as too much Starbucks coffee? That’s a question some analysts are asking as Starbucks Corp.’s U.S. locations come close to 14,300—more than the number of McDonald’s locations, the Wall Street Journal reports. Starbucks has opened 2,000-plus new U.S. locations in the past three years. “The U.S. coffee market is becoming over-stored, and traffic

CHICAGO – The snacking revolution isn’t restricted to younger generations—baby boomers like their snacks, too, Food Business News reports. At a recent Information Resources Inc. (IRI) presentation at the Sweets & Snacks Expo, Sally Lyons Watt, IRI’s executive vice president of thought leadership, reminded attendees that the older generation represents a golden opportunity for snack sales. “You’ve got 74 million

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – Bottled water is the No. 1 beverage product in the United States, by volume, for a second year in a row, according to the International Bottled Water Association (IBWA) and the Beverage Marketing Corporation (BMC). Bottled water volume grew to 13.7 billion gallons in 2017, a 7% increase over the previous year. “Bottled water’s rocket-like rise in

NEW YORK CITY – As a New York Times food writer and the newspaper’s Southern bureau chief, Kim Severson spends a lot of time driving on Interstates, and thus stopping at gas stations and convenience stores. Here’s her go-to, top 10 list of snacks, the New York Times reports. The list starts at No. 9 because of a tie between

Bringing a little “New York City” to our customers in Virginia?  It doesn’t matter where you live, what matters is how it tastes!  “We are always glad to be in the stores with our strong customers to help them identify new ways to get their customers excited about our products and help THEIR CUSTOMERS have something new to eat”, according

It was another great year for Team Modern customer/partners and vendor/partners as we all came together in Somerset in March of this year. Great deals were made available by all of our vendor/partners. Door prizes from vendors as well as cash from Team Modern was drawn for during the course of the day and everyone had a great time too!

The Modern Fund, the charitable non-profit entity of Team Modern received a $25,000 contribution through the Team Modern annual golf outing proceeds at Eagle’s Nest Country Club in Somerset, Kentucky on June 7th. With a perfect weather day for golf, Team Modern customers, vendors, and TM team members all participated in the fundraising event to help benefit Modern Fund to

Team Modern Food Service welcomed 12 independent food service partner/customer stores represented recently at a food tasting and education session at our corporate headquarters in the test kitchen. Team Modern’s Chef Jared provided multiple items for tasting at the demonstration while Barrett Harris, Food Service Director addressed food service regulations. “Our goal at the program was two-fold: First, to help