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AN EVEN BIGGER THREAT TO RESTAURANT SURVIVAL

Culinary Cues

Growing cycles will continue to change, unpredictable alterations in weather patterns will continue to haunt farmers, and crops that would normally thrive in certain parts of the world may not be able to survive there now. [] WAR: Ukraine was the 5 th or 6 th largest agricultural country in the world.

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Sustaining the Earth and Customers’ Goodwill: The Impact of IoT

Modern Restaurant Management

So technicians climb into their trucks, making three extra 40-mile round trips to complete the necessary repairs. For restaurants and QSRs, the high price of cooking oil is an ongoing pain point. percent (United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, reported by Marketplace ). Could these extra trips be prevented?

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Exploring coffee production in Sierra Leone

Perfect Daily Grind

Furthermore, low coffee prices at that time meant many producers had little incentive to continue growing coffee. There would need to be a big incentive for them to do this successfully, [but currently there isn’t because coffee prices remain low.]”. Producers would have to invest a lot more in harvesting,” he explains.

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The Great Shortage

EATER

Pandemic-related materials, food, and labor shortages make running an independent restaurant near-impossible. Along with environmental conditions triggered by global warming, COVID has snarled supply chains across the world, and food supplies are no exception. Our food supply] is not all one supply chain,” he says.

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Avocados Will Get More Expensive, But the Costs for Growers in Mexico Are Much Higher

EATER

According to Zhengfei Guan, associate professor of food and resource economics at the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, Americans have a voracious appetite for avocados. In 2019, in the town of Ziracuaretiro, a gang robbed a truck full of USDA inspectors at gunpoint.

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Meet Alaska’s Last Milkman

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Since he started milking in Delta Junction a year ago, he’s found that locals who rarely get really fresh milk or have never lived anywhere near a dairy farm have a thirst for his mostly grass-fed, nonhomogenized, glass-bottled stuff, even at a higher price. Outside of Alaska, most dairymen are raising cattle and milking, not processing food.

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10 Alternative Foodservice Formats Impacting the Restaurant Industry

Aaron Allen & Associates

Increasingly, we’re seeing companies that are looking to provide food via convenient and affordable formats that have attractive unit economics or are more relevant to emerging consumer trends — bringing food to customers where they live, work, eat, play, shop, and so on. There were some 180 food halls in the U.S. In the U.K.