The Business of Food

Tyson Foods Inc. is cutting prices on some beef products for retailers even as the coronavirus pandemic has temporarily shuttered some meat processing plants and threatened to disrupt supply chains.

Meat exports have surged despite concerns over work safety, as workers try to fulfill overseas sales purchased up to six months ahead of time-- before the coronavirus outbreak took hold in the US.

Harvester crews typically traverse the nation with their combines and grain trucks taking on work where the crops are ripening.

Airport restaurants and retail struggling with lost revenue because of the coronavirus, and how to reopen

Burger King is trialling an app for ordering food and booking a table at its outlets in Italy, as it seeks to persuade locals it is safe to eat out again after more than two months of coronavirus lockdown.

Farmers, growers and operators of open-air markets are heading into a busy time of the year as many states still are under stay-at-home orders.

Sweetgreen is now offering non-salad meals on its new "Plates" menu.

Two influential proxy advisory firms said Dine Brands Global Inc shareholders should reject a proposal to spin off its IHOP pancake house chain in a rebuke to activist investment firm JCP Investment Partnership which proposed the plan.

Jennie-O Turkey Store announced Tuesday that it will temporarily pause operations at its Melrose, Minnesota facility in order to undergo a deep, facility-wide cleaning to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus.

Tyson Foods Inc Chairman John Tyson warned that the U.S. “food supply chain is breaking” as a growing number of plant closures have left farmers with fewer options to market and process livestock.

Hormel Foods’ Jennie-O Turkey Store announced that it was temporarily closing two facilities in Minnesota after 14 employees tested positive for COVID-19.

The company said it was working with health officials in three surrounding counties to test 1,400 employees from its Pasco, Washington, plant for COVID-19.

Kroger, the country’s largest grocery chain, had to learn quickly in order to keep its essential employees and customers safe amid the coronavirus pandemic.

The meal delivery service industry hit record heights in March as the coronavirus pandemic forced millions of Americans to self-isolate at home.

Chipotle announced free delivery lasting through at least early May and a partnership with Uber Eats.

Starbucks and Beyond Meat have partnered to launch a new plant-based menu in China this week.

Dwindling supplies of carbon dioxide from ethanol plants is sparking concern about shortages of beer, soda and seltzer water - essentials for many quarantined Americans.

Bare store shelves aren’t a sign that there’s a shortage of food in the United States, U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue said.

U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue said he’s working to get a South Dakota pork plant reopened after hundreds of employees tested positive for COVID-19.

Virginia-based Smithfield Foods announced Sunday that it is closing its pork processing plant in Sioux Falls until further notice after hundreds of employees tested positive for the coronavirus