Welcome to the The Food Professor podcast episode 7, I’m Michael LeBlanc, and I’m Sylvain Charlebois!In this episode: Latest research: the impact of millions of Canadians working from home on the food service and restaurant industry https://www.dal.ca/sites/agri-food/research/covid-19-telecommuting.htmlDo you have any tips for restaurants?: Should tips be automatically added to the bill?  Is the concept of tips part of the entire restaurant industries problem?  https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-heres-a-tip-its-time-to-discuss-how-we-pay-workers-in-the-service/Less is more: how can grocers keep their assortment fresh in a global pandemicOur Special Guest: Cara Keating, Pepsico Foods CanadaMovement on the local food-farm gate movement: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/meat-alberta-farmers-butchers-government-1.5669951?__vfz=medium%3DsharebarT-t-t-talking 'bout my COVID generation: how growing up in a pandemic effects your perspectives on food; now or forever?Crying over food safety returns - where is there opportunity to improve the food recall process?Nobody here but us chickens: Canada's new initiative to move perishable food through to food banks: https://www.cp24.com/news/chicken-eggs-both-go-first-as-feds-roll-out-covid-19-food-surplus-program-1.5062880Thanks to Cara Keating for being our guests on this episode of The Food Professor podcast! If you liked what you heard you can subscribe on Apple iTunes , Spotify or your favourite podcast platform, please rate and review, and be sure and recommend to a friend or colleague in the grocery, foodservice,  or restaurant industry.    I’m Michael LeBlanc, producer and host of The Voice of Retail podcast and a bunch of other stuff, and I’m Sylvain Charlebois!Have a safe week everyone! 
About UsDr. Sylvain Charlebois is a Professor in food distribution and policy in the Faculties of Management and Agriculture at Dalhousie University in Halifax. He is also the Senior Director of the Agri-food Analytics Lab, also located at Dalhousie University. Before joining Dalhousie, he was affiliated with the University of Guelph’s Arrell Food Institute, which he co-founded. Known as “The Food Professor”, his current research interest lies in the broad area of food distribution, security and safety. Google Scholar ranks him as one of the world's most cited scholars in food supply chain management, food value chains and traceability.He has authored five books on global food systems, his most recent one published in 2017 by Wiley-Blackwell entitled “Food Safety, Risk Intelligence and Benchmarking”. He has also published over 500 peer-reviewed journal articles in several academic publications. Furthermore, his research has been featured in several newspapers and media groups, including The Lancet, The Economist, the New York Times, the Boston Globe, the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, BBC, NBC, ABC, Fox News, Foreign Affairs, the Globe & Mail, the National Post and the Toronto Star.Dr. Charlebois sits on a few company boards, and supports many organizations as a special advisor, including some publicly traded companies. Charlebois is also a member of the Scientific Council of the Business Scientific Institute, based in Luxemburg. Dr. Charlebois is a member of the Global Food Traceability Centre’s Advisory Board based in Washington DC, and a member of the National Scientific Committee of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) in Ottawa.About MichaelMichael is the Founder & President of M.E. LeBlanc & Company Inc. and a Senior Advisor to Retail Council of Canada and the Bank of Canada as part of his advisory and consulting practice. He brings 25+ years of brand/retail/marketing & eCommerce leadership experience with Levi's, Black & Decker, Hudson's Bay, Today's Shopping Choice and Pandora Jewellery.Michael has been on the front lines of retail industry change for his entire career. He has delivered keynotes, hosted fire-side discussions with C-level executives and partici