The COVID-19 pandemic put a pause to most of the FDA’s in-person inspections, both domestic and foreign, for a majority of the year. In July, the FDA announced that it would resume domestic inspections, based on an advisory level framework that determines when and where it is safest to conduct them. However, there was stillRead More
Fueled by the pandemic and years of injustice, 2020 saw an increased amount of protesting and outcry for a more equitable world. The protests against George Floyd’s death at the hands of police affected civilians and businesses alike and consumers began to seek out do-good brands more than ever. In response to feeling neglected and disenfranchisedRead More
Self-driving vehicle company Nuro has received its first-ever Autonomous Vehicle Deployment Permit from the California DMV, reports The Spoon. This gives the company permission to launch the first commercial autonomous vehicle service in the state, delivering groceries, household items, and other goods with its driverless vehicles. Nuro’s vehicles are roughly the size of a regularRead More
Following a string of e-bike robberies in the spring, Gustavo Ajche, a delivery worker from Guatemala, was messaging his fellow deliveristas in a WhatsApp group chat of workers in their neighborhood about how they could protect one another (those bikes, which they have to pay for themsel… More »
“If you travel, and COVID doesn’t kill you, I will,” said my mother, on the phone from 3,000 miles away. “Stay put.” It had been decades since we’d spent Christmas apart, but now she was ordering me, in no uncertain terms, to stay home in San Francisco, while she was in New York. More »
Over the course of the Grub Street Diet’s 14-year history, nothing has presented a test quite like the turmoil and upheaval of 2020. Food doesn’t exist in a vacuum, after all, and even the act of eating — we learned — could mean so much more. Reading this year’s columns can feel a bit likeRead More
Do you ever wake up in the middle of the night with so many thoughts in your head you need to write them all down?” Guy Fieri says in his irrepressible staccato way, which, even over FaceTime, sounds only a little less irrepressible than the high-motor voice that emanates more or less 24 hours aRead More
The CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices has recommended that grocery store workers and foodservice workers receive the vaccine in the next phases of the rollout. Frontline essential workers (including food and agriculture and grocery store workers) are included in Phase 1b and foodservice workers are included in Phase 1c. Other essential workers included inRead More
Despite the $325 billion proposed for small businesses in the new economic rescue package approved by Congress, many small businesses are saying that it won’t be enough, reports Politico Pro. The aid is supposed to cover up to three and a half months’ worth of payroll costs, but many businesses don’t expect to bounce backRead More
This isn’t my first draft of this post. It’s more like my fifth. I’ve been feeling the weight of everything and I unloaded a lot in those words… all in a long, somewhat sensical paragraph. It was good to get it down, to express my heartbreak over the pandemic, to share a bit about theseRead More
