Chipotle Announces Intent To Spend $10 Million On Food Safety And $50 Million On Marketing.
How Do The Choices We Make Define Us As A Culture?
But Is 15 Cents Per Consumer Enough To Tell Your Story?
We’ve written about Chipotle’s food safety travails in pieces such as Chipotle, Bill Marler And Black Swan Events — How Much Money Do We Want To See Spent On Food Safety? and Spinach Crisis Déjà vu: Dr. Mansour Samadpour Retained By Chipotle To Boost Food Safety Efforts: Increased Product Testing, Outsourced Processed Produce, And New In-Store Kill-Steps Are […]
Does Changing The Default Option Change What Kids Eat At Disney?
Dr. Marion Nestle Weighs In!
Is The Problem Who Funds The Research Or Research Design?
There is a mini-scandal in the nutrition research community as Disney pressed a scientific journal to pull a study it funded: The Walt Disney Company urged an academic journal to withdraw a nutritional study of children’s meals at Disney World last fall — a study it had funded — amid a public backlash over corporate […]
SEA CHANGE IN SELLING PRODUCE:
Do Buyers Know How To Navigate In A Seller’s Market?
We recently wrote a column in Pundit sister publication, PRODUCE BUSINESS, that we titled The Produce World of 2016: Power Shifts To Producers. Here is an excerpt: Want to know the state of the produce industry in 2016? True story: A California grower/shipper, one of the largest in the world, meets with an old friend […]
Be Present At The Creation
A New Industry Institution To Be Born
THE AMSTERDAM PRODUCE SHOW AND CONFERENCE
Premiers This November At The Iconic…And Symbolic…Westergasfabriek
It was over 30 years ago, in launching PRODUCE BUSINESS magazine, that we set upon ourselves a special obligation—to “Initiate Industry Improvement.” We had unveiled the first issue at the Produce Marketing Association convention in 1985 in San Francisco, so we celebrated by unveiling this brief video at the most recent PMA: Time passes and the […]
Spinach Crisis Déjà vu:
Dr. Mansour Samadpour Retained By Chipotle To Boost Food Safety Efforts:
Increased Product Testing, Outsourced Processed Produce,
And New In-Store Kill-Steps Are Part Of New Moves To Keep Customers Safe
But Is Chipotle Over-Promising? Will Food Safety Be The Priority As Memories Fade?
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued its “final update” on the Chipotle E. coli 026 outbreak without identifying a specific product that was at the source of the outbreak. Though finding a specific product at fault would have been satisfying, our experience is that it probably would have simply led Chipotle to change […]
Chipotle, Bill Marler And Black Swan Events — How Much Money Do We Want To See Spent On Food Safety?
James B. Stewart at The New York Times wrote an article that ran under the headline, Chipotle’s New Mantra: Safe Food, Not Just Fresh, and it contained these comments from well-known plaintiff attorney, Bill Marler: “I’ve been involved in every food-borne illness outbreak, small and large, since 1993,” said Bill Marler, a Seattle-based lawyer who […]
If One Wants To Evaluate The Impact Of Raising The Minimum Wage…One Has To Determine If It Actually Raises Compensation
Having studies of all kinds pass over the Pundit desk throughout the years has clearly established one thing: The answer you get depends on the question you ask. So when Michael Lynn and Christopher Boone of the Cornell University School of Hotel Administration published a study — titled Have Minimum Wage Increases Hurt the Restaurant […]
Industry Veterans And Rising Stars Volunteer To Lead
University Interchange Mentorship Program
We have run many pieces about the content that will enrich The New York Produce Show and Conference this year: Bringing Produce To New Markets: Opportunities And Obstacles In The New Retail Environment… St. Joseph Food Marketing Guru John Stanton Gives Featured Presentation At The New York Produce Show And Conference A Farmer’s Daughter Speaks […]
We’ve Come A Long Way
We’ve produced many videos since the opening of The New York Produce Show and Conference, but our favorite remains the first — The brief chronicle of the rise of a dream on the island of Manhattan. The show is bigger now, the content richer, the attendees more diverse, but, this little video captures the core […]
UK University Researcher Surveys Students To Determine Future Pathways Into Produce Industry
Last year, we invited a British university to join our University Interchange Program, and the professor gave a fantastic presentation: A LEAP ACROSS THE POND -Newcastle University Welcomed As First British School To Join University Interchange Program At New York Produce Show and Conference; Professor To Present On The Intersection Of Food, Technology And The Consumer Now […]
