The Food Professor

Cara Keating, President PepsiCo Foods Canada is our special guest, the end of tipping, impact on foodservice when we work at home, talkin' 'bout my COVID generation

Episode Summary

Latest research: the impact of millions of Canadians working from home on the food service and restaurant industry Do you have any tips for restaurants?: Should tips be automatically added to the bill? Is the concept of tips part of the entire restaurant industries problem? Less is more: how can grocers keep their assortment fresh in a global pandemic Our Special Guest: Cara Keating, Pepsico Foods Canada Movement on the local food-farm gate movement T-t-t-talking 'bout my COVID generation: how growing up in a pandemic effects your perspectives on food; now or forever? Crying over food safety returns - where is there opportunity to improve the food recall process? Nobody here but us chickens: Canada's new initiative to move perishable food through to food banks

Episode Notes

Welcome to the The Food Professor podcast episode 7, I’m Michael LeBlanc, and I’m Sylvain Charlebois!

In this episode: 

Latest research: the impact of millions of Canadians working from home on the food service and restaurant industry 

https://www.dal.ca/sites/agri-food/research/covid-19-telecommuting.html

Do you have any tips for restaurants?: Should tips be automatically added to the bill?  Is the concept of tips part of the entire restaurant industries problem?  https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-heres-a-tip-its-time-to-discuss-how-we-pay-workers-in-the-service/

Less is more: how can grocers keep their assortment fresh in a global pandemic

Our Special Guest: Cara Keating, Pepsico Foods Canada

Movement on the local food-farm gate movement: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/meat-alberta-farmers-butchers-government-1.5669951?__vfz=medium%3Dsharebar

T-t-t-talking 'bout my COVID generation: how growing up in a pandemic effects your perspectives on food; now or forever?

Crying over food safety returns - where is there opportunity to improve the food recall process?

Nobody here but us chickens: Canada's new initiative to move perishable food through to food banks: https://www.cp24.com/news/chicken-eggs-both-go-first-as-feds-roll-out-covid-19-food-surplus-program-1.5062880

Thanks to Cara Keating for being our guests on this episode of The Food Professor podcast!


 

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