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American Restaurant Association Inc., -a food commodity research, forecasting, consulting and contract risk management organization founded in 1996 specifically directly to the US restaurant/hotel industry and supply chain. American Restaurant Association also specializes in assisting restaurant/hotel companies navigate and contract in the volatile food commodity markets through its two sister firms ARA Trading and ARA Hedging. ARA Trading, is a licensed Commodity Trading Advisory Firm (CTA) specifically directed to the US hotel/restaurant industry for commodity risk management consulting and education.  ARA Hedging is a commodity merchandising company offering flexible commodity contracting to clients.