Welcome to the The Food Professor podcast episode 26, our first anniversary episode!  I’m Michael LeBlanc, and I’m Sylvain Charlebois!The Food Professor is brought to you by omNovos - THE digital customer engagement solution for grocery and restaurant marketers helping you deliver personalized and segmented experiences at scale. Find out how you can get personal and grow sales by making EVERY customer interaction count with omNovos at www.realcustomerengagement.comLots to talk about this episode  - a solo episode so lets get right to it….First of all…Where’s the Beef!  Latest Agri-Foods research out today telling us that 92% of Canadians enjoy beef, 65% consider themselves regular users…considering the kerfulfle of epicurious eliminated beef recipes, seems like the they are missing over 90% of the population…Other topics for this episode:Canadian food manufacturing reportButterGate 3.0 - in between our episodes some /more evidence;Article in the National Post: 4 reasons why we are paying more -...get three, but eating more at home?  https://financialpost.com/moneywise/four-reasons-canadians-are-paying-a-lot-more-at-the-grocery-store-this-yearMontreal getting into competition with UberEats to help their restaurantsSpeaking of restaurants...in Toronto over 365 days of no-in restaurant eating...the U.S. has earmarked 28Billion for restaurants...basically take 2019 revenues, subtract 2020 and get the difference....bold, expensive...wow:  https://www.restaurantbusinessonline.com/financing/stimulus-bill-29b-direct-restaurant-aid-appears-headed-passageLongo's and fair trade bananasWingstop takes flight - 100 new chicken wing locations!!Our Bonus episodes continue...******Thanks again to the folks at omNovos for being our presenting sponsor!   If you liked what you heard you can follow us 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.    Be sure to visit and subscribe to our new YouTube channel!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 Retai