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A lawsuit against parent company Darden Restaurants claims its sub-minimum wage policies violate the Constitution and Civil Rights Act

Direct-to-consumer sales will likely be a lasting legacy of the pandemic as well as a growing presence in all categories, including F & B. To understand the future of F & B, it’s important to see how DTC is changing the industry, providing opportunity for some and challenges for others.

These nine beers come from environmentally conscious breweries that you can sip on this Earth Day, or any other day, with a clear conscience.

After a health scare in his life, Jason Karp, started to really study the food that he was putting in his body. That led him to start Hu, a better-for-you snack maker that recently sold to Mondelez. In his latest entrepreneurial venture, Jason is the CEO and co-founder of HumanCo.

Todd Graves, Raising Cane’s founder/CEO, recruited experts from his own company, as well as celebrity friends like Shaquille O’Neal and Snoop Dogg, to help 10 independent restaurants struggling through the pandemic for a new series called Restaurant Recovery.

Slice has raised $40 million in a new funding round led by Cross Creek and featuring 01 Advisors, a venture created by former Twitter executives Dick Costolo and Adam Bain, both of whom are now advisers to the company. The round brings the company’s total raised since to $123 million.

According to Nielsen, wine cocktails grew 102% in dollar volume in March 2021 compared to the same time last year – even though it was high then too - while the related flavored wine category increased by 33%.

Atlast Food Co. taps investors to help it bring sizzling, crispy mycelium masquerading as bacon to the breakfast table.

The folks at Miller Lite knew people were missing bars, but they didn’t expect them to miss them as much as they did.

One of my favorite cocktails out there is the mint julep. Town Branch Distillery, the first distillery to open up in Lexington. KY since prohibition, just launched a new bartender campaign around the drink to salute the 147th running of the Kentucky Derby this year.