A small innovation that made a big difference, the teabag has remained pretty much the same for more than a century.…
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Why Champagne Is Like OPEC
With champagne sales plunging because of pandemic lockdowns, growers and Houses like LVMH are behaving somewhat like OPEC.…
What the CPI Is Hiding
A Consumer Price Index (CPI) that went up by just .6 percent during the past year hides a much larger increase in some grocery prices.…
Why McDonald’s Likes the Drive-Thru
Because of the role it played in the U.S. and globally during pandemic lockdowns, McDonald’s drive-thru has become more important.…
How Covid-19 Affects the Cost of Living
Because a Covid-19 basket of goods and services has a different inflation rate from the CPI basket, the cost of living might not be what we think it is.…
How a $350 Meal Became $35 Takeout
A Chicago restaurant’s pandemic takeout plan transformed the limitations of the lockdown rules into a creative opportunity.…
A State-by-State Look at Quarantine Takeout
Ranging from tacos to dumplings to General Tso’s chicken, our state-by-state quarantine takeout preferences are different.…
A Tale of Two (Very Different) Restaurants
Thinking of a post-coronavirus world, two restaurants in New York City have a very different vision of what how business will change.…
A Tale of Two Grocers
Faced with isolated communities, two grocers, separated by thousands of miles, support their customers in a rather similar way.…
The Best Way to Social Distance at a Restaurant
Except for one very clever Amsterdam eatery, the restaurant industry has been hit exceedingly hard by the coronavirus lockdown.…