Welcome to Food Week April 19, 2024: A cavalcade of the bad and the weird. Gold mining with whey, post rapture tip claw back, bee thieves, vodka rage in Alberta, intermittent fasting coronaries, cooking oil from algae, ghost distilleries and dying micro-breweries, bird flu in cow’s milk, a TikTok ban. Thank God for gin. Enjoy. […] The post Food Week April 19, 2024 appeared first on Fork Pitch ..read more

Aldi’s recently announced a partnership with GrabanGo, a check-out free technology competing in the same space as Amazon Go’s grocery stores. We were curious to try it out at the store in Aurora, IL for two reasons. One we wanted to see how a no-frills retailer like Aldi embraced a technology that has mostly been […] The post graBANGO! appeared first on Fork Pitch ..read more

Welcome to Food Week April 12, 2024. This weeks report very punchy, brisk, lots of quick hits, Except on avian influenza which is freaking people out in new ways. And where the author complains about food delivery. Anyway, Enjoy MACRO RETAIL AND CONSUMER RESTAURANTS AND FOODSERVICE FOOD SUPPLY CHAIN DRINK CORNER FOOD WEEK APRIL 12 […] The post Food Week April 12, 2024 appeared first on Fork Pitch ..read more

Aldi’s recently announced a partnership with GrabanGo, a check-out free technology competing in the same space as Amazon Go’s grocery stores. We were curious to try it out at the store in Aurora, IL for two reasons. One we wanted to see how a no-frills retailer like Aldi embraced a technology that has mostly been […] The post graBANGO! appeared first on Fork Pitch ..read more

Welcome to Food Week April 5, 2024. A difficult week with the killing of the WCK workers so perhaps we can be distracted by more mundane failings like plastic in produce, restaurant delivery, ketchup in hot dogs, Asian shrimp, salmon, Walgreens and the fluffernutter. Enjoy. MACRO RETAIL AND CONSUMER RESTAURANTS AND FOODSERVICE FOOD SUPPLY CHAIN […] The post Food Week April 5, 2024 appeared first on Fork Pitch ..read more

Aldi’s recently announced a partnership with GrabanGo, a check-out free technology competing in the same space as Amazon Go’s grocery stores. We were curious to try it out at the store in Aurora, IL for two reasons. One we wanted to see how a no-frills retailer like Aldi embraced a technology that has mostly been […] The post graBANGO! appeared first on Fork Pitch ..read more

Welcome to Food Week March 29, 2024. Happy Easter! We have a lot to share this week, a lot of it about things people are doing wrong: making Negronis, pricing chocolate, pour over coffee, insider trading, antibiotics, washing vegetables and buying cheese. Do better people. Enjoy! MACRO RETAIL AND CONSUMER RESTAURANTS AND FOODSERVICE FOOD SUPPLY […] The post Food Week March 29, 2024 appeared first on Fork Pitch ..read more

We’ve been excited to try the menu at McDonald’s newest beverage-centric concept, CosMc’s, so we recently visited the first one to open, located in Bolingbrook, IL. We were surprised by the long line of cars waiting to get into the drive-thru, so we tried to go into the store. CosMc’s has been jammed packed since […] The post CosMc’s: First Impressions appeared first on Fork Pitch ..read more

Welcome to Food Week March 22, 2024. A lot to review while you are watching basketball this weekend. New technologies for packaging and protein in soy, drone delivery of food, good vermouth, healthy sauces and the coming chocolate crisis. And much more. Enjoy! MACRO RETAIL AND CONSUMER RESTAURANTS AND FOODSERVICE FOOD SUPPLY CHAIN DRINK CORNER […] The post Food Week March 22, 2024 appeared first on Fork Pitch ..read more

Welcome to Food Week March 15, 2024. Late update as this week we attended the Expo West show. What a week! St. Patrick’s Day and Pi day – so many made up holidays! But lots of fun things below. Enjoy! MACRO RETAIL AND CONSUMER RESTAURANTS AND FOODSERVICE FOOD SUPPLY CHAIN DRINK CORNER FOOD WEEK MARCH […] The post Food Week March 15, 2024 appeared first on Fork Pitch ..read more