Did You Know | Advice and wisdom from the Deli Lamma

The Deli Lamma and consultants working with Rosen Enterprises read many trade journals, review many
daily internet blogs and have their ear to the ground all across the Foodservice and Management Industries.

Check this page often for ideas, suggestions and upcoming events, that might benefit your store operations.

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A company called CHEEZWHSE.COM is offering a promotion of FREE, cheese case signs. These sharp
looking signs can include the product name and description, your store logo, and pricing information. Despite
the rise and fall of low carb dieting, cheese is still a mainstay of great deli & dairy cases. With the holidays
fast approaching, now is a great time to rethink and reset your cheese sections.

Adding these great looking signs can make it easy. You can reach CHEZWHSE at 1-800-922-4337.

"EGG" sactly what you need to know about eggs*

These are some of the terms used on labels to describe eggs:

Conventional:

Hens live in stacked "Battery" cages, usually six chickens to a cage with up to 67 square inches of floor
space per chicken.

Cage-free:

Hens live on the floor of the barn, rather than in cages.

Free-Range:

Hens either live outdoors or have some access to the outdoors.

Organic:

Hens are fed a vegetarian diet of foodstuffs grown without any herbicides, commercial fertilizers, or
fungicides.

Omega-3:

Hens are fed a diet containing 10%-20% ground flaxseed, which produces eggs with slightly higher
amounts of polyunsaturated fatty acids. (Also found in fish oils)

Hormone-free:

No egg-laying hens in the USA are given hormones.

Antibiotic -free:

No hens in the USA are given antibiotics while laying eggs. A hen would be given antibiotics only if it were
ill and had stopped laying eggs.

Brown:

Brown eggs are produced by brown-feathered hens. There is no nutrient difference between brown and
white hens fed identical diets.

Natural:

Just a cosmetic term, no regulated meaning.

*This information was published in The USA Today on April 11, 2006. It was taken from a source from the
United Egg Producers, U.S. Department of Agriculture.

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