How much coffee do your Chicago employees drink each day? One cup? Two? More? Knowing the number of cups and their contents is important especially if an individual wants to know how much caffeine they are consuming. March is Caffeine Awareness Month, and with more than...
Chicago consumers need a bit of help learning about the snacks and beverages they consume, at least according to the International Food Information Council (IFIC) Foundation’s 2019 Food and Health Survey. Determining attributes like price, convenience and taste is relatively easy to do, but it...
February is American Heart Month, which makes it a great time to think about eating a heart healthy diet. Maintaining a healthy diet is just one of many ways to fight cardiovascular disease, a group of diseases that includes heart disease and is the leading...
Making healthy snack decisions can be challenging. With long ingredient lists and ingredient names that often cause confusion instead of clarity, it can be hard for Chicago employees to know how healthy different snack items are. The International Food and Beverage Alliance (IFBA), a group...
Maintaining healthy lungs isn’t something that most Chicago individuals spend a lot of time thinking about. That is unless they already have health issues connected to their lungs. When a Chicago individual’s lungs don’t work properly, it can impact their health, and as a result,...
Snacks and healthy snacks do not have to be two different snack categories in Chicago, especially when chocolate is involved. In fact, 83 percent of consumers who participated in a recent study performed by the National Confectioners Association (NCA) and the Fine Chocolate Industry Association...
He’s now working for the second generation, but is as thorough and adaptive as ever. If a job makes you happy you never work a day in your life. That’s the motto of Jim Milton, a route driver at Fox Vending, Inc. in Bridgeview, Ill. and...
A Chicago break room can function as different things for different employees. For some it’s a welcoming place to chat with colleagues over a cup of coffee or hot tea, while for others, it’s a spot to grab a quick snack or a delicious fresh...
Bottled water, unsweetened tea and coconut water are three healthy, refreshing and great-tasting choices that are also convenient and portable. With no or low amounts of sugar, these three beverages are ideal for maintaining hydration. PepsiCo has acknowledged the shift in consumer preferences for healthy...
Excellent break rooms do more than offer a space to relax with a hot coffee, enjoy a freshly prepared meal or collaborate with colleagues. They tell future and current Chicago employees a lot about how an employer feels about their employees, and for employees, that...