Remember this date: August 28, 2020. It’s probably destined to go down in history as the day the COVID-19 crisis came home to roost on the foodservice industry – the day it became real to anyone in the food and beverage sector who was not already convinced of how serious the crisis was…Read More →
This week’s Sunday musings centre on one of the most beloved and, arguably, one of the most misunderstood foods on the face of the planet: Chocolate. In fact, this past few weeks could have been headlined ‘Chocolate Month’ on the news wires I monitor. Grab some luscious, dark Chocolate and read on…..Read More →
New (limited-time) menu items and cross-cuisine-cultural mashups headline this week’s Fast Food Week lineup. To me, this just means that most of the major players in the take-out and delivery-only category appear in no hurry to re-open for dine-in service. School, sports re-ops to date have been disastrous…Read More →
UPDATE: Just a day after my post about KFC pulling an ad campaign in the UK which drew more than 100 complaints, the Fried Chicken Giant appears to have come back with a slick, new “Oops! We Goofed” campaign. And it got me wondering if I and millions of others have been conned…Read More →
KFC has pulled an advertising campaign in the UK and Europe months after suspending a similar campaign in the U.S., following a flurry of complaints about the multi-media effort’s inappropriateness in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis. A company statement claims: “Hey, guys! We were just kidding!”..Read More →
Although the source story I came across, upon which this post is based, focuses on the effects of a looming container shortage on the Brewing industry, let’s not forget that Beer is by far not the only beverage sold in Aluminum cans. Why did we not see this coming?Read More →