Food and drink

Grant Reid, president and chief executive officer of Mars Inc., speaks during a Bloomberg Businessweek Debrief event in New York, U.S., on Thursday, Jan. 10, 2019.Alex Flynn | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesMars CEO Grant Reid is retiring after more than eight years in the role and will be replaced by the head of the company's pet care business.Poul Weihrauch, the global president of Mars Petcare, will succeed him at the end of September, the company said Wednesday. Mars said that Reid informed the board of his decision 18…

Kellogg is planning to separate into three independent public companies, sectioning off its iconic brands into distinct snacking, cereal and plant-based businesses.Shares of the company rose 4% in morning trading.The announcement Tuesday comes a decade after Kellogg's $2.7 billion purchase of Pringles, which signaled the company's shift to focusing on the global snacks business with people increasingly eating more often between meals. Kellogg, along with rivals like Frito-Lay-owner PepsiCo and Oreo-cookie owner Mondelez,…

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The UAE is tackling this issue of work-life balance and the government recently rolled out a 4.5-day working week for Emirati government employees.Laszlo Szirtesi | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesThey say it's risky playing with a winning formula — especially when that formula results in massive revenue for Covid-battered restaurants and is one of the pillars of a country's tourism offering.So, when the UAE government announced it was shifting its weekend from Friday and Saturday to Saturday and Sunday to align with…

Employees prepare orders for customers at a Chipotle Mexican Grill restaurant in Hollywood, California.Patrick T. Fallon | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesChipotle is giving cauliflower rice another try after the item helped bring in new customers when it was offered for a limited time last year.The Newport Beach, California-based chain said Thursday it will test a Mexican cauliflower rice at 60 locations in Arizona, Southern California and Wisconsin. The company said the item is seasoned with spices including garlic, cumin and…

Pasta is coming back in different shapes and flavors, drinking vinegar is cool, and comfort food favorites like pancakes are being made with new ingredients.That's according to the hundreds of items on display at the Summer Fancy Food Show, a trade show that has gained a reputation for being a place to spot the next big flavors and foods that will dominate restaurant menus and grocery store shelves. The show returned for the first time since the pandemic this week, running Sunday through Tuesday at the Jacob K. Javits…

Photo: Nick Laham / Allsport (Getty Images)Ryan Petersen, the CEO of a logistics tech company called Flexport, tweeted out a photo that went viral Monday, purporting to show a time when McDonald’s used supposedly healthier cooking methods. Petersen suggested the people from this allegedly ancient photo were much healthier than the people of 2022, insinuating it’s because they weren’t consuming seed oils, a currentboogeyman in the diet world. But just about everything in Petersen’s tweet is wrong or misleading.“This…

Brown-Forman and The Coca-Cola Company announce plans to debut Jack Daniel's® Tennessee Whiskey and Coca-Cola®™ Ready-to-Drink CocktailCourtesy: Coca-Cola CompanyCoca-Cola is teaming up with Jack Daniel's distiller Brown-Forman to make a Jack-and-Coke cocktail in a can.It marks the fourth new alcoholic drink in Coke's portfolio in less than two years, but the first pairing for its namesake soda. The Atlanta-based beverage giant has already partnered with Molson Coors Beverage on Topo Chico Hard Seltzer and Simply Spiked…

Photo: Chris Hondros (Getty Images)You remember in Disney’s Moana, when the people of Motunui wax lyrical about the benefits of the coconut, how they use “each part of the coconut, it’s all you need.” It’s a real jaunty tune.Now imagine that same song but it takes place on a Thai coconut plantation, where monkeys are reportedly brutally forced to knock the coconuts from the trees before being kept in cages or tied to posts for hours, and the lyrics about how the land “gives us what we need, and no one leaves,” takes on a…

Consumers are now demanding environmental accountability in everything -- from the buildings they live in to the products they purchase. Food is a big one. While more and more food companies are claiming that their products are "sustainable," a Brooklyn, New York-based startup is asking how good that claim really is. The company is called HowGood.HowGood analyses thousands of ingredients -- more than 33,000 so far, the company claims -- looking at factors like the product's greenhouse gas emissions, its water usage, land…