FOOD ARCHIVES Seamless Buys Menupages; Doritos Creator Dies
by Chantal Martineau
Here’s a news flash: Fast-food chains like Pizza Hut, Subway, and Taco Bell are slashing their prices and offering amazing deals not because they want to but because the economy sucks.
[USA Today]
Seamless, the online and mobile app that allows you to order food for delivery, has just bought MenuPages for an undisclosed amount.
[NY Times]
Queens is now home to two new farmers’ markets — the St. Albans Fresh Connect Harvest Home and Flushing/Pomonok Fresh Connect Farmers Market.
[Queens Gazette]
Protesters gathered outside the Trader Joe’s on Court Street in Brooklyn to denounce the “modern-day slavery” of the store’s tomato farmers.
[Patch]
A new report reveals that some 70 percent of households that used food stamps last year had no earned income.
[Wall Street Journal]
Arch West, the creator of Doritos, the best-selling tortilla chips in the U.S., died on September 20 at age 97.
[Wall Street Journal]