https://www.PR.com/ Latest news releases from PR.com for Clarion Group. Fri, 06 Mar 2026 18:50:34 -0500 © 2026 PR.com 60 en-us https://www.PR.com/images/logo_white.jpg https://www.PR.com/ 68 69 PR.com provides press release distribution, and is a unique directory of businesses, products and services. Find full company profiles. https://www.pr.com/press-release/679822 Sun, 17 Jul 2016 03:00:00 -0400 The clients of food service and other on-site service providers are now considered ‘joint employers’ with their contractors and equally responsible for the contractor’s employees as though they issued their paychecks directly,” warns Tom Mac Dermott, president of the food service and hospitality services consultancy Clarion Group. [PR.com] https://www.pr.com/press-release/679822 Clarion Group https://www.pr.com/press-release/671775 Fri, 20 May 2016 03:00:00 -0400 The long-delayed federal regulations for providing nutrition information on “chain restaurant” menus have been published as “guidelines” by the Food and Drug Administration, with enforcement scheduled to begin next year, in May 2017. [PR.com] https://www.pr.com/press-release/671775 Clarion Group https://www.pr.com/press-release/668130 Thu, 21 Apr 2016 12:05:37 -0400 More government agencies are adopting the position that organizations are responsible for their food service or other on-site service contractor’s labor-related legal problems, Tom Mac Dermott, president of Clarion Group, dining and hospitality consultants, reports. [PR.com] https://www.pr.com/press-release/668130 Clarion Group https://www.pr.com/press-release/657936 Sat, 13 Feb 2016 03:00:00 -0500 Two of the nation’s leading dining and hospitality service consulting firms have joined as a collaborative venture to provide greater resources for their clients, the firms have announced. [PR.com] https://www.pr.com/press-release/657936 Clarion Group https://www.pr.com/press-release/621000 Sun, 24 May 2015 03:00:00 -0400 "Time is running out to prepare for implementing the Food and Drug Administration’s new menu labeling rules," warns Tom Mac Dermott, president of Clarion Group, a dining and hospitality services consulting firm. “Corporate, college, school and institutional food services that are operated by a contractor that has 20 or more clients must comply. [PR.com] https://www.pr.com/press-release/621000 Clarion Group https://www.pr.com/press-release/605705 Sat, 14 Feb 2015 03:00:00 -0500 Colleges and companies can make expensive mistakes when they’re planning a new dining facility or renovating an existing one if they haven’t first planned carefully for the operation and services they want, says Tom Mac Dermott, FCSI, president of Clarion Group, a food service consulting firm. [PR.com] https://www.pr.com/press-release/605705 Clarion Group https://www.pr.com/press-release/605706 Sat, 14 Feb 2015 03:00:00 -0500 Trusted Kingston, NH-based corporate food service consultants, Clarion Group are now providing their regulatory expertise to clients across the marketplace. [PR.com] https://www.pr.com/press-release/605706 Clarion Group https://www.pr.com/press-release/602989 Thu, 29 Jan 2015 03:00:00 -0500 Kingston, NH-based food service consultants, Clarion Group are now offering a comprehensive corporate event service. [PR.com] https://www.pr.com/press-release/602989 Clarion Group https://www.pr.com/press-release/602990 Tue, 27 Jan 2015 16:50:38 -0500 Kingston, NH-based dining service consultant, Clarion Group is now working with businesses across the region to help reduce the cost of their food services. [PR.com] https://www.pr.com/press-release/602990 Clarion Group https://www.pr.com/press-release/575365 Wed, 13 Aug 2014 03:00:00 -0400 Clarion Group, consultants to companies, colleges and institutions in food service operations, has joined Food Consultants Group, an alliance of independent consulting firms that specialize in food- and food service-related disciplines, Tom Mac Dermott, Clarion Group’s president announced. [PR.com] https://www.pr.com/press-release/575365 Clarion Group https://www.pr.com/press-release/569825 Sun, 13 Jul 2014 03:00:00 -0400 “Customer-facing technology is opening new opportunities for corporate food service operators,” says Tom Mac Dermott, president of Clarion Group, a food service consulting firm. [PR.com] https://www.pr.com/press-release/569825 Clarion Group https://www.pr.com/press-release/562252 Wed, 18 Jun 2014 15:29:50 -0400 The managers of corporate food services and related hospitality services often make a mistake when they outsource these services by accepting the vendor’s “standard contract,” says Tom Mac Dermott, president of Clarion Group, a food service management consulting firm. [PR.com] https://www.pr.com/press-release/562252 Clarion Group https://www.pr.com/press-release/563670 Thu, 12 Jun 2014 03:00:00 -0400 Companies whose food service operations are managed by contractors on a subsidized basis may not be receiving full value financially or the best possible meals and services, warns Tom Mac Dermott, President of Clarion Group, a food service management consulting firm. [PR.com] https://www.pr.com/press-release/563670 Clarion Group https://www.pr.com/press-release/562250 Thu, 05 Jun 2014 03:00:00 -0400 Rising food prices, especially for meats, can cause budget concerns for operators of corporate food services, but there are ways to reduce their impact, according to Tom Mac Dermott, president of Clarion Group, a food service management consulting firm. [PR.com] https://www.pr.com/press-release/562250 Clarion Group https://www.pr.com/press-release/552946 Wed, 16 Apr 2014 03:00:00 -0400 “Among the fastest-growing solutions in corporate food services is the micro-market,” says Tom Mac Dermott, president of Clarion Group, a food services consulting firm. A micro market is an unattended convenience store, typically located in a workplace setting where there’s not enough population to support a food service operation and vending machines by themselves are not adequate. Customers select [PR.com] https://www.pr.com/press-release/552946 Clarion Group https://www.pr.com/press-release/552949 Wed, 16 Apr 2014 03:00:00 -0400 “Food service operators who are worrying about a possible increase in the minimum wage are looking in the wrong direction,” say Tom Mac Dermott, president of Clarion Group, a food service management consulting firm. “The federal government’s proposal to tighten regulations on exemptions from overtime pay has received little attention, but if implemented, will have a greater and more immediate [PR.com] https://www.pr.com/press-release/552949 Clarion Group https://www.pr.com/press-release/543135 Thu, 20 Feb 2014 03:00:00 -0500 The operators of corporate food services can look forward to a good year in 2014, according to Tom Mac Dermott, FCSI, president of Clarion Group, a food service consulting firm. Even some of the bad news for the year has a silver lining, he says. [PR.com] https://www.pr.com/press-release/543135 Clarion Group https://www.pr.com/press-release/532403 Thu, 12 Dec 2013 03:00:00 -0500 “The signs are pointing upward for corporate food services,” says Tom Mac Dermott, FCSI, President of Compass Group, a food service and hospitality services consulting firm, citing two recent surveys of the industry, “but not for everyone. The story’s a little different at every company.” “Overall, customer counts and the average sales per customers increased in 2012, compared to 2009 [PR.com] https://www.pr.com/press-release/532403 Clarion Group https://www.pr.com/press-release/522072 Thu, 17 Oct 2013 03:00:00 -0400 “Convergence is a term usually associated with communications, the blurring of lines between television, the internet, smart phones and the like. Now convergence has come to corporate food service,” says Tom Mac Dermott, president of food service consulting firm Clarion Group. “The line between staffed employee cafes and vending is being blurred with the emergence of the unattended food service option [PR.com] https://www.pr.com/press-release/522072 Clarion Group https://www.pr.com/press-release/515836 Sat, 14 Sep 2013 03:00:00 -0400 With low interest rates and the Federal Reserve’s easy money policy, the major food service contractors have been more generous in offering financial investments to potential college and university clients, according to Tom Mac Dermott, president of Clarion Group, a food service consulting firm. “We have seen recent seven-figure investment offers to college clients where the apparent profitability to the [PR.com] https://www.pr.com/press-release/515836 Clarion Group https://www.pr.com/press-release/512168 Wed, 28 Aug 2013 03:00:00 -0400 Should a college or university operate its campus food services on its own, or turn the role over to a food service contractor? That’s question with an ambiguous answer, according to Tom Mac Dermott, FCSI, President of the dining service consultant firm, Clarion Group. “It depends on a number of factors,” Mac Dermott says. “Primarily, how important food services is considered to be to the [PR.com] https://www.pr.com/press-release/512168 Clarion Group https://www.pr.com/press-release/502283 Thu, 11 Jul 2013 03:00:00 -0400 College food service operators are finding a new competitor for their voluntary meal plans, according to Tom Mac Dermott, President of Clarion Group, a campus and corporate food service consulting firm. “In addition to the usual off-campus restaurants, fast food, pizza and deli outlets, there now are a growing number of off-campus student residences, some of which have an in-house dining operation,” he said. [PR.com] https://www.pr.com/press-release/502283 Clarion Group https://www.pr.com/press-release/494407 Fri, 31 May 2013 03:00:00 -0400 “Food service consultants frequently aren’t used to their full value by their corporate clients,” Tom Mac Dermott, president of Clarion Group, a corporate food service consulting firm, says. “Often, we’re brought into a project too late to provide maximum benefit for our client.” “For example, if a corporate food service facility design project is already underway when the [PR.com] https://www.pr.com/press-release/494407 Clarion Group https://www.pr.com/press-release/485492 Wed, 17 Apr 2013 03:00:00 -0400 The managers of corporate food service operations are optimistic about the prospects for their businesses, according to a nationwide survey conducted jointly by Clarion Group, a food service consulting firm, and Food Management, the magazine of the on-site food service, industry. “These are the people on the front lines,” commented Tom Mac Dermott, Clarion Group president. “They’re managing their [PR.com] https://www.pr.com/press-release/485492 Clarion Group https://www.pr.com/press-release/482688 Wed, 03 Apr 2013 03:00:00 -0400 “Maybe the outgoing tide of more employees leaving the office to work at home is starting to reverse,” says Tom Mac Dermott, President of Clarion Group, a food service consulting firm. “That would be good news for the operators of corporate food services.” [PR.com] https://www.pr.com/press-release/482688 Clarion Group https://www.pr.com/press-release/476509 Wed, 06 Mar 2013 03:00:00 -0500 Resident students’ meal plans are a source of seemingly endless variation as college food services try to adapt to students’ wishes and wants for convenience and economy, says Tom Mac Dermott, president of Clarion Group, a food service consulting firm. “Back in the famous good old days, resident students had no choice: the college food service offered only 19, 20 or 21 meals a week,” Mac Dermott [PR.com] https://www.pr.com/press-release/476509 Clarion Group https://www.pr.com/press-release/474926 Wed, 27 Feb 2013 03:00:00 -0500 Companies that once considered low cost meals an employee benefit sometimes now are revising their attitude and thinking of food service as a convenience that should be self-sustaining, according to Tom Mac Dermott, FCSI, president of Clarion Group, a food service consulting firm. “The conversion can be tricky,” Mac Dermott says, “because it inevitably means higher prices and maybe fewer services when [PR.com] https://www.pr.com/press-release/474926 Clarion Group https://www.pr.com/press-release/465418 Thu, 10 Jan 2013 03:00:00 -0500 Food service contractors and employed operators of corporate food services may face further diminishment of their customer bases in 2013, Tom Mac Dermott, president of Clarion Group, a food service consulting firm, warns. “In addition to continued slow recovery in the economy, companies now have new ways to outsource even highly skilled work to freelance workers all over the world, reducing the need for – and [PR.com] https://www.pr.com/press-release/465418 Clarion Group https://www.pr.com/press-release/459119 Wed, 05 Dec 2012 03:00:00 -0500 Breakfast sales at employee food services have significantly diminished over the past five to seven years, endangering the viability of corporate food services, research by Clarion Group, a food service consulting firm, has found. “While breakfast sales are lower than at lunch,” Tom Mac Dermott, Clarion’s president, said, “the decline has a negative effect on the food service’s [PR.com] https://www.pr.com/press-release/459119 Clarion Group https://www.pr.com/press-release/453162 Mon, 12 Nov 2012 14:23:42 -0500 Food service operators in the corporate and school/college markets are facing a dilemma, says Tom Mac Dermott, president of Clarion Group, a dining and hospitality consulting firm. “After absorbing a year’s worth of rising wholesale prices, the food service operator can expect that food costs will still keep going up well into 2013. The dilemma is how to recoup the higher costs in the face of customer [PR.com] https://www.pr.com/press-release/453162 Clarion Group https://www.pr.com/press-release/447919 Sun, 14 Oct 2012 03:00:00 -0400 Will college food service follow corporate food service down the path to fewer customers and declining revenue? That is a real possibility, says Tom Mac Dermott, President of Clarion Group, a food service and hospitality services consulting firm. “Mobile technology untethered employees from the office,” Mac Dermott said, “and the rise of internet-based education, called ‘distance learning,’ [PR.com] https://www.pr.com/press-release/447919 Clarion Group https://www.pr.com/press-release/441356 Sun, 16 Sep 2012 03:00:00 -0400 With the opening of the 2012-13 academic year, college food service operators face the twin, and conflicting, challenges of rising expectations and rising costs, says Tom Mac Dermott, President of Clarion Group, a college food and hospitality consulting firm. “Students today have become more sophisticated and knowledgeable about food and are not content with just pizza and burgers,” Mac Dermott said. [PR.com] https://www.pr.com/press-release/441356 Clarion Group https://www.pr.com/press-release/428762 Sun, 22 Jul 2012 03:00:00 -0400 The food service management and consultancy company Clarion Group has just unveiled their new website layout and design. The new site offers an improved user experience, with easier navigation, a crisp look and a wide variety of ways to learn about the company and their services, including a blog. Clarion Group has been providing consulting, management and facility design to food businesses that specialize in the [PR.com] https://www.pr.com/press-release/428762 Clarion Group https://www.pr.com/press-release/426277 Thu, 12 Jul 2012 03:00:00 -0400 “Corporate food service operators are facing a slow-motion crisis as technology is enabling companies to reduce head counts in their offices, factories and other workplaces,” says Tom Mac Dermott, president of Clarion Group, a food service consulting firm. “Fewer on-site employees mean fewer customers for the food service.” “College and university food services don’t face the same [PR.com] https://www.pr.com/press-release/426277 Clarion Group https://www.pr.com/press-release/401382 Thu, 29 Mar 2012 03:00:00 -0400 “The biggest mistake companies and institutions make when hiring a food service, janitorial, mail room, copy center or other vendor to perform services on their premises is to sign the contract, then put it in a drawer and forget it,” says Tom Mac Dermott, president of Clarion Group a dining and hospitality services consulting firm. A good on-site services contract spells out each party’s [PR.com] https://www.pr.com/press-release/401382 Clarion Group https://www.pr.com/press-release/381033 Thu, 05 Jan 2012 03:00:00 -0500 “2012 may prove to be a better year for corporate and campus in-house food services and other hospitality services than last year,” Tom Mac Dermott, president of Clarion Group, a dining and hospitality services consulting firm says, “but plenty of challenges remain. “The U.S. economy is slowly recovering from the depths of the 2008-09 recession, but is still a long way from prosperous; boom times [PR.com] https://www.pr.com/press-release/381033 Clarion Group https://www.pr.com/press-release/357223 Fri, 30 Sep 2011 03:00:00 -0400 Organizations that have in-house food services would be wise to determine how well their food service personnel understand and comply with food safety procedures, advises Tom Mac Dermott, president of Clarion Group, a dining and hospitality services consulting firm headquartered in Kingston, NH. “A recent survey of food handlers in Chicago illustrates how little many food service workers and managers understand [PR.com] https://www.pr.com/press-release/357223 Clarion Group https://www.pr.com/press-release/291857 Fri, 21 Jan 2011 03:00:00 -0500 “Corporate food service operators have to adapt to the new reality of serving fewer customers at their on-site cafes,” says Tom Mac Dermott, president of the dining and hospitality services consulting firm, Clarion Group, headquartered in Kingston, NH. “It means more than just doing more with less,” he says. “It means rethinking the way employee dining service is operated.” While many [PR.com] https://www.pr.com/press-release/291857 Clarion Group https://www.pr.com/press-release/272333 Wed, 27 Oct 2010 03:00:00 -0400 “Companies and colleges food services have to adapt to the ‘New Reality’ brought on by the recession and its aftereffects,” says Tom Mac Dermott, president of the food and hospitality services consulting firm Clarion Group. “It will be some years before boom times like 2005-07 return.” Underlining the change in on-site food service fortunes, a recent survey by the Society for [PR.com] https://www.pr.com/press-release/272333 Clarion Group https://www.pr.com/press-release/269247 Thu, 14 Oct 2010 03:00:00 -0400 “Outsourcing food services or facilities management services doesn’t mean your problems are over,” warns Tom Mac Dermott, president of Clarion Group, a dining and facilities services consulting firm. “All that a company, college or institution has done is to put an intermediary between management and the work to be performed.” Most companies, colleges, government agencies, schools, hospitals [PR.com] https://www.pr.com/press-release/269247 Clarion Group