Food Delivery Startups a Crowded Field
Los Angeles — For generations, delivery meant pizza or Chinese takeout. Now the on-demand economy, having already upended the way people hail a ride or book a place to stay, is increasingly taking aim at what we put on our dining tables and expanding the menu in the process. You can have spicy clam and chorizo pasta delivered by Munchery one day, a gourmet sandwich dropped off curbside by UberEats on another, or come home to a box of...
USDA Proposes Healthier Fare
Kansas City, Mo. — As teachers lament seeing toddlers too large to fit in playground swings, a federal program that feeds millions of low-income children may be overhauled for the first time in almost 50 years, aiming to make the meals at day care facilities healthier and reduce obesity. About 3.8 million young children are fed daily through the Child and Adult Care Food Program, which primarily reimburses day care providers, and also...
One Company Bucks Frozen Foods Decline
Literally and figuratively, frozen food is not a hot business. The meals are cold and sales are down. Consumers are shifting to fresher options. So the frozen food aisle may seem like the last place you’d seen innovation in your local grocery store. Yet Atkins Nutritionals has somehow defied the trend. Its frozen meals were one of 12 products recognized in Nielsen’s 2015 Breakthrough Innovation report. To be honored, the products had...
