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Eat REAL | Tuesday, August 15th, 2017 | Eat REAL in the News, Media Coverage, Restaurants | No Comments

** To read an interview with Founder and Owner, Matthew Guelke, click here. Originally posted on PR Underground Industry: Restaurant/Hospitality San Francisco, CA (PRUnderground) August 15th, 2017 – Bay Area fast-casual pioneer, The Plant Café Organic, has undergone the Eat REAL® Certified Audit and become the first in the nation to qualify for Platinum level certification. This certification… Read More

Eat REAL | Tuesday, August 15th, 2017 | Eat REAL in the News, REAL News, Restaurants | No Comments

Bethlehem, PA (August 15, 2017) – Molinari’s restaurant isthe first independently owned restaurant in the state of Pennsylvania to become REAL Certified®. REAL Certified is the nationally recognized mark of excellence for food and foodservice operators that have gone through a rigorous process to evaluate the healthfulness and sustainability of the food being served. By… Read More

Eat REAL | Tuesday, August 15th, 2017 | Health & Wellness, Partnerships, REAL Certified Businesses, Restaurants | No Comments

Motivated by the results he and his family saw after a health retreat, Matthew Guelke joined forces with Mark Lewis to create the Plant Café to provide clean food made with 100% organic ingredients. After leaving the tech industry, they refocused their careers on feeding people healthy, local food with a focus on maintaining a… Read More

Sasha Mehan | Monday, August 14th, 2017 | REAL News | No Comments

By Jean-Pierre Kiekens || Policy Options || July 21, 2017 I recently visited in a university hospital in Montreal a relative who had suffered a significant cardiovascular event. After 24 hours, she was offered a meal: macaroni and cheese. Other options included more junk foods: pizza, hamburger, spaghetti with meat sauce, and so on. There were no… Read More

Sasha Mehan | Monday, August 7th, 2017 | REAL News | No Comments

by Megan Poinski || Food Dive || July 13, 2017 Dive Brief: Consumers are overwhelmingly interested in more transparency in food products, according to a new study from Response Media. Study results say almost everyone finds transparency important in food products — 99% for fresh food and 98% for packaged food — and 70% said their purchases are… Read More

Sasha Mehan | Saturday, August 5th, 2017 | Corporate Establishments, Health & Wellness | No Comments

by Kate Cox || The New Food Economy || August 1, 2017 In December of 2014, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released its final rules requiring chain restaurants and similar retail food establishments with 20 or more locations to provide calorie counts and other nutrition information for standard menu items. Regulations requiring mandatory calorie declaration… Read More

Sasha Mehan | Thursday, August 3rd, 2017 | Corporate Establishments, Eat REAL in the News, Media Coverage, REAL News | No Comments

Business Wire || August 2, 2017 EMERYVILLE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Clif Bar & Company’s Kali’s Kitchen, an employee-run sustainable café at Clif’s headquarters, is the first to receive Gold certification in sustainability and nutrition from the United States Healthful Food Council’s (USHFC) non-profit organization Eat REAL. Eat REAL, or Responsible Epicurean Agricultural Leadership, holistically audits food service providers’… Read More

Sasha Mehan | Thursday, August 3rd, 2017 | Animal Welfare, Health & Wellness, Media Coverage, REAL News | No Comments

by Emma Loewe || Mind Body Green || August 1, 2017 Photo: Agencia As far as fruits and veggies are concerned, there’s one major label that people know they can trust. The USDA Certified Organic seal makes it easy to find produce you can feel good about eating (just make sure it’s 100 percent organic). Shopping for meat, on… Read More

Sasha Mehan | Monday, July 31st, 2017 | Corporate Establishments, Health & Wellness, REAL News | No Comments

Fast-food franchises inside medical centers are under fire again by Erin DeJesus || Eater || July 26, 2017 Cate Gillon/Getty Images News Should hospitals be offering its visitors access to triple-decker burgers and candy-topped shakes? The seemingly odd practice of hospitals leasing space to fast-food franchises is coming under fire yet again: In the newest debate, a group… Read More

Eat REAL | Wednesday, July 26th, 2017 | Health & Wellness, Newsletter, Partnerships, Trends | No Comments

The #GiveHealthy Movement is designed to solve a big problem. Donating food to food drives is one of the most popular forms of giving in the US. More people donate food than watch the Super Bowl each year, a great display of the public’s interest in supporting one of our most pressing social issues… Read More

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