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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-September 2021 Edition

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15 percent have ordered alcoholic beverages with food for delivery or takeout, on par with the 18 percent of Canadians that say they’re likely to do this. “The developments and improvements made to delivery and takeout containers, food quality and speed have made a lasting, positive impression,” says Barclay.

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The Immense Human Cost of Keeping Thailand’s Palm Oil Flowing

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Most of SPFT’s members are like Somrudee and her parents, Chai and Usa Suwannaphat, who followed her in 2011 — ordinary people who never owned much of anything, drawn by the promise of a plot of earth where they could grow enough food for themselves and their children. One of the ripened pods on a palm fruit.

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Yevgeny Prigozhin, the Man Known as ‘Putin’s Chef,’ Explained

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He started out in the food business in the 1990s, first selling hot dogs, then running restaurants, and, finally, operating a sprawling catering company called Concord that now effectively functions as the parent company of the Wagner Group. Who is this preposterously notorious food-industry professional? At the time, St.

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Why Are the World’s Greatest Mangoes Almost Impossible to Buy in the U.S.?

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since 2010, supply chain and logistics challenges have limited it to a scant national presence, even in the specialty groceries where you might expect to find them. In every single case, the mangoes were sourced off WhatsApp. is the second largest importer of mangoes in the world, with the majority sourced from Mexico.

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New & Notable: TEAM Schostak Celebrates 40, AI in Food Service and Beachy Tech

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Sandy was promoted to Director of Information Technology in 2009, and in 2014 she was promoted to Vice President of Information Technology. He started his career with Hardee’s Food Systems in 1983 ending in the position of District Manager. Bill is a 1982 graduate of Michigan State University.

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The Lost Soybeans of Okinawa

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In an excerpt from “Eating to Extinction,” author Dan Saladino visits Okinawa where one farmer is hoping to bring back one of the world’s rarest soybeans Our food supply is suffering from a diversity crisis. As the supply of the bean increased, so did demand for soy products. Buy now at Amazon or Bookshop. Monica Burton.

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First Robotic Mobile Restaurant and DoorDash’s Commissary Kitchen

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In this edition of MRM News Bites, we feature Ono Food Co, DoorDash, Parts Town and Heritage Foodservice, Rouxbe, Presto, Burger King and Uber Eats, Pared, Tork, Restaurant Technologies, Willie Degel, Bolay, Ritual, Preoday and TISSL, AdTheorent and Voodoo Doughnut. Ono Food Co. Ono Blend Founders Daniel Fukuba and Stephen Klein.