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Grocery Pet Peeves – Ways Stores Disguise the Shortages Food Travel USA with Elizabeth Dougherty Grocery Pet Peeves – Ways Stores Disguise the Shortages The TRUTH about Food and Travel Original Broadcast Date:  10/21/2021 We dive into food shrinkage and how it’s impacting cooking at home.  Grocery stores are moving around …

  RESTAURANT PET PEEVES – DON’T SEND FOOD BACK RESTAURANT PET PEEVES – DON’T SEND FOOD BACK – We have a standing rule… “never, under any circumstances, send food back to the kitchen!”  We violated our own rule while on vacation and Elizabeth shares the story. We describe the place …

Audio Livestock Farmers in North Dakota Fight Back – FTN Highlight Livestock Farmers in North Dakota Fight Back – FTN Highlight – From the 9/11/21 show: “Figures Lie and Liars Figure.” The government says inflation at the grocery checkout isn’t an issue… just don’t count beef, chicken or pork in …

FIRST WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 2021 – Bowling Green, KY, Crestview, FL, Fort Smith, Ark., over 100 locations in Louisiana – post hurricane (check local schedules). August 6, 2021 NATIONAL – Walmart Closings for “Sanitizing” Running List – Employees at selected stores report they are closed, have closed or are in …

Warning Now A Threat to our Pork Supply? – China is largest foreign owner of farmland in the U.S. This week, we discussed some of the possible ramifications of this development and why we are becoming concerned:   OH, BUT THERE’S MORE TO THE STORY… Did you know that a …

From the Food Travel USA News Desk Shopping Cart – Post Covid-19 It’s a certainty that some of the measures implemented at large grocery stores and big-box retailers during the pandemic will stick around for awhile.  While smaller family-owned retailers, the backbone of our economy pre-Covid 19 were forced to …

From the Food Travel USA News Desk – Brilliant Strategy by Chuck-E-Cheese What they are doing. So what do you do with your chain of restaurants built entirely around the dine-in experience for kids when a pandemic breaks out and you’re forced to lock the doors?  Brilliant strategy by Chuck …

From the Food Travel USA News Desk: Restaurant Geo-Fencing Creepy or Convenient? So your local Panera Bread restaurant is rolling out some equipment that have us a bit puzzled.  Is this convenient or creepy?   Used to be, you’d pull up and park, call someone inside the restaurant and they’d bring …