Selected Articles
Food Categories Explained: Understanding the Multiple Classification Systems
You've probably heard industry professionals talk about frozen food, produce, or meat categories. These familiar groupings represent just one way to [...]
How Anti-Competitive Conduct Reshapes Risk Calculus for U.S. Food Companies
Price fixing and market concentration are no longer occasional enforcement headaches for the food industry. They have become central strategic risks, influencing [...]
San Francisco Sues Big Food Over Addictive Products
San Francisco has filed a first-of-its-kind lawsuit against ten major food corporations, alleging they designed and marketed ultra-processed foods (UPFs) to be [...]
Top 10 U.S. Private Label Food Manufacturers
Private label has stopped being the budget aisle. It's now a core manufacturing strategy that's reshaping who makes food, how retailers [...]
Top 50 Fast Food Chains in the U.S.
The QSR 50 is an annual ranking of limited-service restaurant companies published by QSR Magazine. The 2025 QSR 50 report highlights the current [...]
The Hidden Difference Between Resilience and Redundancy
If you spend enough time in the food industry or if you like reading USDA policy briefs, you’ll hear the words resilience [...]
Grocers Navigate Complexity as They Adopt AI
Grocers - and all food retailing execs - face a challenging technology adoption landscape when implementing artificial intelligence systems, driven primarily by [...]
Amazon Joins the Value Grocery Battle
Amazon has introduced a new grocery brand designed to compete directly in the low-price segment of the food retail market. The line, [...]
What is a Cobotic Kitchen?
A cobotic kitchen is a kitchen environment where humans work collaboratively with cobots (collaborative robots) to prepare, cook, and handle food. Unlike [...]
The 6 Stages of the U.S. Food Value Chain
For decades, the U.S. food industry was a marvel of logistical efficiency, engineered to move calories from farm to fork as cheaply [...]
