Feastin Launches New Meal Delivery Platform for People Who Care About Good Food as Much as They Care About Supporting Local Restaurants

Created by local restaurateurs, Feastin delivers a variety of restaurant meals, groceries, and cocktails from the Bay Area’s best restaurants and purveyors in a single delivery without charging restaurants fees or commissions Feastin Delivery Box Created by local restaurateurs, Feastin delivers restaurant prepared meals, meal kits, desserts, and alcohol from […]

Lebanese Eatery ditched grocery store, thrives on food ‘to go’ format. And it’s all run by family.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Before the pandemic hit, Tarek Wazzan streamlined his Middle Eastern food operation by shedding the grocery portion of the business. Now known purely as Lebanese Eatery, prepared rotisserie chickens, halal cold cuts and savory noshes take centerstage. The Wazzans opened Lebanese Eatery with the former Shop […]

Freshii Unveils Transformed Mobile App to Make Healthy Food More Convenient for Americans

Completely re-designed app improves user experience & loyalty program, adds greater ordering options  TORONTO, Oct. 13, 2020 /PRNewswire/ – Freshii Inc. (OTC: FRHHF) (“Freshii”)—one of North America’s leading healthy fast casual restaurants—today announced the launch of its completely transformed mobile app, Freshii, offering Americans a convenient way to eat and energize. […]

Minneapolis’ 1st Black vegan restaurant owner is fighting for Black lives with food

After persevering through a family tragedy and a wrongful arrest, chef and restaurateur Louis Hunter launched Trio, the first Black-owned, vegan restaurant in Minnesota, Minneapolis. And today, he’s helping people lead healthier lives through irresistible plant-based meals. In 2018, Louis Hunter opened a plant-based soul food restaurant with Sarah and […]

Pain reverberates through food industry in wake of downtown Charleston restaurant closures | Raskin Around

The Post and Courier Food section is checking in weekly with four downtown Charleston restaurants coping with the coronavirus pandemic and recovering from restrictions designed to contain it. For previous installments of the series, as well as more information about the four featured restaurants and their chosen strategies for success, click here. Harold’s […]

Agriculture and Food Investment Management Firm Solum Partners Launched by Former Harvard Management Company Executives

BOSTON, Oct. 8, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Today, former Harvard Management Company (“HMC”) executives have launched Solum Partners, an investment management firm focused on real assets in the agriculture and food production industry. Solum Partners will invest in global agriculture and food opportunities, targeting efficient, large scale agricultural production assets with […]

Rethink Food Launches Rethink Certified Program by Supporting 20 New York City Restaurants With $250,000 Each, Revitalizing Small Businesses and Food Insecure Communities

NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Today, Rethink Food — an organization whose mission is to create a sustainable and equitable food system for all Americans — announces the national expansion of Rethink Certified, their revolutionary certification partner program whose aim is two-fold: feed communities, support small businesses. Rethink Certified is committed to supporting […]