Welcome to the The Food Professor podcast episode 9, I’m Michael LeBlanc, and I’m Sylvain Charlebois!Back to School Professor!  How will your work life be different, what does university life look like for your students, and what does that mean for the foodservice industry that takes care of feeding tens of thousands of students coast-to-coast?Winter is coming. Patio season is almost over for most of Canada - what comes next for the restaurant industry: https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/patio-season-over-restaurants-pandemic-1.5712856  .  The news keeps getting worse for the sector (https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6936a5.htm?s_cid=mm6936a5_w) talk about how the restaurant economy can be saved, or at least is worth saving and what New Brunswick is doing to help: https://www.retail-insider.com/retail-insider/2020/9/dont-want-to-save-the-restaurant-industry-fine-but-use-it-to-save-the-economySpecial Guest: Margaret Hudson, President Burnbrae Farms: https://www.linkedin.com/in/margaret-hudson-521a7a9/Nobody panic, its the second wave: assess the stability, durability of the food supply chain as we (may or may not) be heading into a second waveLets talk about the weather in California/Oregon - how will wildfires and other challenges in California impact Canadians and the food supplyWhats Poppin?!? The Popeye's Chicken sandwich is about to hit Canada and it's a big deal!  https://www.680news.com/2020/09/14/the-popeyes-chicken-sandwich-is-finally-available-at-all-canadian-restaurants/. Factoids: Popeyes sold 203 million chicken sandwiches in the past year; Texas sold the most chicken sandwiches in the last 12 months; and the most sandwiches sold by one store in one day was 3,582 sandwiches on November 3, 2019.******Thanks to Margaret Hudson from Burnbrae Farms for being our guest 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 In