Welcome to Food Week August 23, 2024. A breezy update for a hot summer weekend. Psyches & Costco. Streaming & Chik Fil A. Subscriptions & sous vide. Salmon & dams. Sugar & scandal. Starbucks CEO & commuting. Siesta cocktail and other things that don’t start with S. Enjoy.
MACRO
- A rate cut by the Fed is coming.
- Will the cattle industry accelerate AI?
- Is everything simply made worse?
RETAIL AND CONSUMER
- Would you pay $2 a month for data from your sous vide device? I didn’t think so.
- The relationship between Costco and your psyche.
- Hacking Aldi’s for lunch.
- The latest Tik Tok obsession is cucumbers.
- Raw milk continues to grow. Death and illness to follow.
RESTAURANTS AND FOODSERVICE
- We’ll give you compostable cups and you can’t have straws but our CEO is going to commute by private plane every day 1500 miles. Bad PR look for Starbucks.
- Chik-Fil-A moving into streaming? Seems they will go for something like conservative, Christian progamming. Whether thi sis neccesarily brand enhancing remians to be seen.
- When my boys were teenagers, we used to tell them all ‘you can eat’ did not mean ‘the most food anyone has ever eaten.’ Thi si what we were afraid of: Applebees promotion ends in arrest.
- Listicle of the top NYC restaurants to try and get a table at this fall.
FOOD SUPPLY CHAIN
- Food industry searching for supply chain diversity. One of the lessons hopefully learned from COVID is that just-in-time straegies have their limitations, particualrly when products are persihable.
- Kalamath dam removal project to open up 420 mile of river for salmon
- Canadian railway strike has everyone on edge.
- How food and drink could lead the way on climate change.
DRINK CORNER
- 10 essentail New Orleans Bars. An excellent list but they left off The French 75 which for charm alone is a must visit. And for a more local flavor I’d add Port of Call.
- 50th anniversary Caymus Cab
- George Clooney, Ryan Reynolds and now Beyonce. This time a whiskey.
- The Wake Up, Donkey Or try a Tomato martini.
FOOD WEEK August 23 LAGNIAPPE
- Limburger sandwich. For reasons.
- Greek embroidered bread.
- Every 10% increase in highly processed foods leads ot a 5% increase risk of mortality
- The sugar industry accused of forcing hysterectomies in India.
- All bananas are radioactive.