Welcome to Food Week May 22. Happy Memorial Day and a quick update after the restaurant show. Among other things are several ideas that really weren’t as good as they seemed: lab grown meat, Wood Milk ads, QR menus, Brexit and Snoop Dogg selling wine. Enjoy!
MACRO
- Money runs out June 5.
- Malaysian agriculture latest climate crisis,
RETAIL AND CONSUMER
- This week I learned that my confusion over candy companies Ferrara Pan and Ferrero Rocher is warranted but moot as the latter acquired the former a couple of years ago. But they still retain the slightly different names in different divisions.
- Controversy over the “Wood Milk’ Campaign.
- 42% of consumers consider environmental concerns.
- Blue Apron selling logistics assets in another readjustment to find profitability.
RESTAURANTS AND FOODSERVICE
- About CAVA, the Mediterranean answer to Chipotle.
- Salmonella outbreak sourced to Papa Murphy’s.
- The era of the menu QR codes may be over.
FOOD SUPPLY CHAIN
- UC Davis says lab-grown meat is worse for the environment than livestock,
- High tech farms struggling with many issues.
- Everyone is desperate for grapes.
- 33% of food inflation in Britain caused by Brexit.
FOOD WEEK MAY 22 LAGNIAPPE
- Natto – the Japanese fermented soybean snack may contribute to longevity.
- Marketing wine with Snoop Dogg didn’t seem like s great idea. It wasn’t.
- Maraschino liqueur is key for several great cocktails.