Back to School Professor! How will your work life be different, what does university life look like for your students, and what does that mean for the foodservice industry that takes care of feeding tens of thousands of students coast-to-coast? Winter is coming. Patio season is almost over for most of Canada - what comes next for the restaurant industry: Special Guest: Margaret Hudson, President Burnbrae Farms: Nobody panic, its the second wave: assess the stability, durability of the food supply chain as we (may or may not) be heading into a second wave Lets talk about the weather in California/Oregon - how will wildfires and other challenges in California impact Canadians and the food supply Whats Poppin?!? The Popeye's Chicken sandwich is about to hit Canada and it's a big deal!
Welcome to the The Food Professor podcast episode 9, I’m Michael LeBlanc, and I’m Sylvain Charlebois!
Back to School Professor! How will your work life be different, what does university life look like for your students, and what does that mean for the foodservice industry that takes care of feeding tens of thousands of students coast-to-coast?
Winter is coming. Patio season is almost over for most of Canada - what comes next for the restaurant industry: https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/patio-season-over-restaurants-pandemic-1.5712856 . The news keeps getting worse for the sector (https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6936a5.htm?s_cid=mm6936a5_w) talk about how the restaurant economy can be saved, or at least is worth saving and what New Brunswick is doing to help: https://www.retail-insider.com/retail-insider/2020/9/dont-want-to-save-the-restaurant-industry-fine-but-use-it-to-save-the-economy
Special Guest: Margaret Hudson, President Burnbrae Farms: https://www.linkedin.com/in/margaret-hudson-521a7a9/
Nobody panic, its the second wave: assess the stability, durability of the food supply chain as we (may or may not) be heading into a second wave
Lets talk about the weather in California/Oregon - how will wildfires and other challenges in California impact Canadians and the food supply
Whats Poppin?!? The Popeye's Chicken sandwich is about to hit Canada and it's a big deal! https://www.680news.com/2020/09/14/the-popeyes-chicken-sandwich-is-finally-available-at-all-canadian-restaurants/. Factoids: Popeyes sold 203 million chicken sandwiches in the past year; Texas sold the most chicken sandwiches in the last 12 months; and the most sandwiches sold by one store in one day was 3,582 sandwiches on November 3, 2019.
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Thanks to Margaret Hudson from Burnbrae Farms for being our guest on this episode of The Food Professor podcast!
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Have a safe week everyone!