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2020-04-17 Economy

AG Secretary Sonny Perdue Discusses Challenges Shifting Food Supply Chains

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Posted by KBK 2020-04-17 00:45|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Approximately 55% of all food was consumed "outside the home" (or food away from home), and 45% of all food consumed was food "inside the home" (grocery shoppers).

I guess cooking programs are very popular right now.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-04-17 05:00|| 2020-04-17 05:00|| Front Page Top

#2 Restaurants are like department stores. A very bad value. But while few can sew nice clothes, anyone can learn to cook. And if you cook, you will learn to not eat crap.

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-04-17 05:09|| 2020-04-17 05:09|| Front Page Top

#3 MM, I'm a decentish cook and this has taught me one very important thing.

Restaurants allow you to decide what you want to eat at the last minute and if there's more than one of you it's more than twice as important.

Cooking requires that you have all ingredients at hand and ready to go. Did you KNOW that you wanted pork chops 4 dinner in the morning when they had to start thawing? Did you still want them at 5:30 when you had to start cooking them?

If you have the disposable income (we're retired) restaurants have some real advantages. I've yet to have a really good Pizza from a regular home kitchen. 8^)

Posted by AlanC 2020-04-17 07:21|| 2020-04-17 07:21|| Front Page Top

#4 The GF and I love eating in restaurants too. They serve an important role. I would never argue otherwise. But I still grill the meanest steak and if I say your restaurant chili is good you are getting a serious compliment.

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-04-17 07:30|| 2020-04-17 07:30|| Front Page Top

#5 Ironically, the stuff that's hardest to make at home is often disappointing at restaurants.

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-04-17 07:32|| 2020-04-17 07:32|| Front Page Top

#6 MM, I'll go head to head with you on the steak.

I do a mean Rib eye in different variations, but, that's fine for 3 or 4 days a week, what about the other days? Oh, sea-food is another problem.....8^)

Posted by AlanC 2020-04-17 09:46|| 2020-04-17 09:46|| Front Page Top

#7 If any of you are ever in the Boston area, I have a buffalo wing recipe that's worth the trip. Let's put it this way - I'm so confident with this recipe I'd love to go up against Bobby Flay on one of his shows. granted I'd get my ass kicked but it'd be a lot of fun.

Posted by Raj 2020-04-17 10:02|| 2020-04-17 10:02|| Front Page Top

#8 Most Americans were not aware food consumption in the U.S. was a 55/45 proposition. Approximately 55% of all food was consumed "outside the home" (or food away from home), and 45% of all food consumed was food "inside the home" (grocery shoppers).

Yup. Some restaurants are going into the grocery business as they are getting ingredients grocery stores are sold out of.

Restaurants are absolutely critical in the tourist industry. They are a huge part of the entertainment industry. They can make or break the prestige of an area; a great restaurant is a draw or attraction.

Wife grew up catering for harvesters, which I'd throw catering into the restaurant category. Me, let's just say I have favorite knives for the job. Wife says I'm the best short order bachelor cook she's ever come across, being able to take random ingredients and leftovers and have a good eat.

But I'm not a bachelor. I like the spicey when other members think yellow mustard needs temperance, so restaurants are where I get to eat what I want. I like Indian and Thai, but, as stated, those ingredients are not in my pantry.

My first real job was dishwasher at 16, entry level job which taught me real life skills. It also filled my quota for doing dishes, which I will happily pay the restaurant to do for me.

Restaurants are where I try new foods, especially when traveling outside my cultural area.

Some residences don't even have kitchens, such as dorms, or the oven breaks, or it is 100 degrees outside and turning on the kitchen is a miserable prospect.

Restaurants are a great idea for the gathering of larger groups. Restaurants are a neutral ground for discussing business. Restaurants are nice for two people to spend some time together.

Posted by swksvolFF 2020-04-17 13:10|| 2020-04-17 13:10|| Front Page Top

#9 55% of all food was consumed "outside the home"
Presumably as measured by cost, not number of meals.

Posted by Glenmore 2020-04-17 15:49|| 2020-04-17 15:49|| Front Page Top

#10 My first real job was dishwasher at 16, entry level job which taught me real life skills.

My first job was also at a restaurant. I was 13 at the time - I lied about my age to get the job, as 14 was the minimum age, back when the minimum wage was about $2.65 an hour. They hired me to make salads, which was all well & fine, then they fired me because I started washing dishes after I made the salads. I'm like - 'you guys are fucked - I'm outta here'. I might have given them the 'you can't fire me - I quit!' line, but I don't remember it clearly. Talk about learning real life skills - the restaurant industry is ideal for that.

That said, I will never, ever again have a restaurant owner as a client - overly demanding, bitch about damn near every invoice I gave to any of them, and I got stiffed a few times on four figure invoices.

Posted by Raj 2020-04-17 16:54|| 2020-04-17 16:54|| Front Page Top

#11 No better motivation for a young person to stay in school and get a good degree than to hustle his arse through 10-hour days, on his feet, stinking of grease, as a busboy in a busy restaurant

Posted by Lex 2020-04-17 17:00|| 2020-04-17 17:00|| Front Page Top

#12 My first real job was dishwasher at 16, entry level job which taught me real life skills.

Me too..except for the yard care and carwashing for neighbors

Posted by Frank G 2020-04-17 17:26|| 2020-04-17 17:26|| Front Page Top

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