By 2010 retail food stores and foodservice operators will be one and the same.The era of women as shopping and cooking mules is over.” While some may disagree with the timescale stated by David Hughes,professor of agribusiness and food marketing at Imperial College London,few doubt the boundaries between food retail and foodservice are blurring.
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