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Who’s On First?
Conversation overheard on a terminal market: Customer: Pea Pods? Salesman: Pea shoots? No. Customer: No. Baby peas. Salesman: Mini green peas? Yes.
Conversation overheard on a terminal market: Customer: Pea Pods? Salesman: Pea shoots? No. Customer: No. Baby peas. Salesman: Mini green peas? Yes.
Recently the IBM supercomputer Watson (which first appeared on Jeopardy! in 2008) was doing some creative computing using algorithms to make meals. “The system begins by capturing and analyzing tens of thousands of ingredient pairings and dish composition, which it rearranges and redesigns
They’re on the Way! The salad bars are coming to a Midwest school near you. That is the goal of United Fresh’s Lets Move program in conjunction with the upcoming convention in Chicago. There seems to be a tremendous amount of industry support for this initiative. And justifiably so, since the return on investment is […]
Our industry has such a great story to tell. The passion of growers who work the land to bring crops to harvest. The dedication of the pickers and packers who prepare the products for shipment across town or across the world. The marketeers who toll in the wee hours of the morning to move the […]
We have a movement afoot to raise the minimum wage by 39% from $7.25 per hour to $10.10. It is said that 900,000 people will be ‘lifted’ out of poverty. That sounds great. However, it is also estimated that an additional 500,000 folks will become unemployed from this single action. A quick math check says […]
We recently hosted a plant tour comprised of 40 franchisees of a national restaurant chain. This was one of the most interesting exercises we have ever done. We needed to look at our business from the standpoint of the tour participant who had never been intimately involved with fresh produce before. Sure, they had worked […]
