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Spoon desserts, hand pies, crepes and small-batch desserts make the Food Channel’s “Top Ten Dessert Trends for 2014” list.

This look back into 30 years of packaging innovations shows how far certain packaging structures, trends and conveniences have come and examines the many features that consumers love.

To pizza and flatbread manufacturers, the secret to a great product goes way beyond the sauce. So what are the trends?

A Hormel bacon bits plant in St. James, Minn., will close in May, cutting work for 75 employees. Austin, Minn.-based Hormel Foods, will be expanding its plant in Dubuque, Iowa, for the first phase of a major project to create more bacon-toppings products.

Sales for the U.S. restaurant industry sales are projected to exceed $683 billion in 2014, an increase of 3.6% from last year, according to a forecast released late on Wednesday by the National Restaurant Association.

Lay’s invites fans to submit their potato chip flavor ideas for the chance to win $1 million. The submission deadline is through April 5.

Carl Buddig & Co. awards the $25,000 Grand Prize in its 2013 Family Road Trip promotion to Cecilia Grzeskowiak of Hampton, Va. Jim Faber of Libertyville, Ill., receives the $10,000 First Prize.

A Packaged Facts report indicates that in-house baked goods experienced dollar sales increases every year since 2008. It expects these gains to continue through 2017.