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V O L U M E 1 9 , N U M B E R 1 0 News ..............................................3 Ad Index .......................................22 www.kitchenwarenews.com VOLUME 21, NUMBER 10 OCTOBER 2015 n $7.00 The next edition of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Dietar y Guidelines for Americans is due to be issued this year, but the broad outline for those guidelines has already been released in the form of the Scientific Report of the 2015 Dietar y Guidelines Advisor y Committee. Among the highlights of the report: suggestions for more urging for Americans to modify their diets and get more exercise; more pressure on the food industry to reformulate food products in a healthier direction; and a tax on sugar-sweetened beverages, snack foods and desserts that could be used to fund obesity prevention BY LORRIE BAUMANN A visit to one of the Southern Season stores in Chapel Hill, North Carolina; Charleston, South Carolina; Richmond, Virginia; or Raleigh, North Carolina; isn't just a grocer y shopping trip; it's something like a quest for the specialty foods, the wines or beers and the kitchen gadgets and skills in using them that can elevate dinner into a celebration of life. Also, it 's fun. The four-store chain will celebrate its 40th anniversar y this fall, says A Southern Season of Gustatory Pleasure Continued on PAGE 8 Continued on PAGE 7 Continued on PAGE 12 Continued on PAGE 5 President and COO Dave Herman. He's been running the operation for a little more than a year after a 35-year career as an executive for a variety of companies that make or sell high- end products, including a stint as Vice President of Retail for Lenox and one at DANSK. This is his first foray into specialty food retailing, and the only real downside is that he's having to spend more time at the gym, he says. Southern Season is often described as a culinary mecca or a food-lover's paradise. Three of the stores are each roughly 50,000 square feet displaying about 80,000 SKUs of specialty groceries, kitchenware, prepared BY AMBER GALLEGOS Kitchenware brands are modernizing the way bamboo is interpreted, using it to convey anything but Old World quaint. Bamboo is a decidedly not-new material, but the woody grass traditionally used for cutting boards and cooking spoons is seeing new life through creative uses, like bamboo fiber. With a contemporary approach to product design, bamboo is sprouting up in some unexpected forms. The use of bamboo fiber allows the highly renewable material to Getting Creative with Bamboo Kitchenware for a New Diet act essentially as a plastic substitute with the added benefit that it is biodegradable. One of the fastest- growing plants on Earth, bamboo takes only about three to five years to reach maturity and be harvested. In comparison, an oak tree will take at least 60 years to reach maturity, and pine trees need around 25 years to be ready for harvest. Bamboo self-regenerates f rom its root system once it is harvested, which is another sustainability point in its favor. Long known for its classic stoneware and porcelain serving accessories, bakeware and dinnerware, 63-year-old BIA Cordon Bleu turned to bamboo fiber when the company sought a new material to add to its assortment. "For us it's just sort of a way of branching out a little bit more into other materials," says programs. The U.S. government uses the Dietary Guidelines as the basis of its food assistance programs, nutrition education efforts and decisions about national health objectives, including the menu planning for the National School Lunch Program. Dietar y Guidelines for Americans were first released in 1980 and have been updated ever y five years since. The point of this report f rom the advisory committee is to inform the next edition of the Dietary Guidelines. Today, about half of all American adults have one or more preventable chronic diseases related to their diets and about two thirds of American adults are overweight or obese. These two conditions have been highly prevalent for more than two decades, and few, if any, improvements in consumers' food choices have been seen in recent BY RICHARD THOMPSON Beacon-triggered technology is estimated to bring $44.4 billion dollars of in-store purchases within the next year, and retailers incorporating it are already seeing increases in overall sales. Coordinating alongside beacon providers and app developers, hundreds of retailers, including Safeway and Target, are advertising new products and sales promotions directly to consumers through their smartphone apps. O ver a third of all retailers already use beacon technology, and by 2016, an estimated 85 percent of retail chains will have adopted its use, according to an August 2014 Business Insider report. Restaurants and food outlets using the technology are finding that their new ability to advertise with location-based context is increasing purchasing intent as well as overall sales. It's estimated that there are more than 570 million Android and Apple smartphones in use and an estimated $44.4 billion dollars of in-store purchases to be had from beacon-triggered technology. Beacons are small transmitters placed throughout a store that pinpoint the location of a nearby smartphone. Apps are small programs on a mobile device, like a smartphone, that provide a particular service – f rom games and social networking to news articles and address books – and have become commonplace on mobile phones. When a customer strolls down the snack aisle, the beacon can "read" the nearby smartphone in the shopper's purse or pocket and send it a contextual message, like a promotion or coupon, through an app that is already on the phone. For instance, if the shopper RETAILING FEATURE n Appliances for the Health Conscious Customers 10 SMALL ELECTRICS n Mills & Grinders 16 BUYERS GUIDE n Baking Tools 17 GOURMET GOODIES n Cocktail Mixers 18 THE KNIFE RACK n Michael Symon Cutlery 21 TRADESHOW CALENDAR n Upcoming Shows 22 UPDATE : BAR ACCESSORIES SEE PAGE 13 GADGET OF THE MONTH: KYOCERA COFFEE GRINDER SEE PAGE 22 BUYERS GUIDE: BAKING TOOLS SEE PAGE 17 H o u s e w a r e s R e v i e w KITCHENWARE NEWS S E R V I N G K I T C H E N W A R E, H O M E D E C O R A N D G I F T W A R E M A R K E T S Beacons Increase Revenue for Businesses

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