Stretched Global Supply Chain Means Shortages On Summer Menus

One America News Network ^ | 06/28/2021 | Lisa Baertlein and Hilary Russ

[Jan_Sobieski]

LOS ANGELES/NEW YORK (Reuters) – In the United States, it’s iced green tea. In South Korea, it’s fries.

At least nine fast-food chains and restaurant companies surveyed by Reuters said some of their locations have been grappling with changing lists of brief shortages of key ingredients and products, as supply bottlenecks plague eateries.

The list of hard-to-find items has included summertime staples such as wieners and chicken wings, and non-food items like plastic packing material and paper bags.

On June 14 the web site of South Korea’s No. 1 fast-food chain, Lotteria, alerted customers that its eateries would substitute cheese sticks for its popular french fries, after snarls in ocean shipping and pandemic-related product inspections spawned an outage.

French fry shipments to the burger and fried chicken chain were delayed due to a dearth of shipping containers and longer health-related customs checks, a spokesman for Lotteria operator Lotte GRS told Reuters.

Supply bottlenecks could continue “well into 2022,” St. Louis Federal Reserve President James Bullard said on Thursday, with reopenings in the United States followed by Europe and then emerging markets…

[Jan_Sobieski]

As the COVID-19 plandemic has facilitate an Soviet style “crushing of the Kulak [small business owner]”, we are naturally seeing the detrimental results of these diktats on our supply chains. Hopefully the hoi polloi wake up before Bill Gates’ prognostication of a meatless western world is realized…

https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/23/bill-gates-wants-western-countries-to-eat-synthetic-meat-meatable-has-raised-47-million-to-make-it/

[Jeff Chandler]

french fries . . . outage.

Potato shortage in France?

[peter the great]

Yesterday I tried to get a Green Tea Lemonade and they were out of the Green Tea just like this article said.

[Vigilanteman]

Don’t know about Korea, but in Japanese the term translates to “fried potato”. Nothing French in the katakana.

[kickstart]

Remember, it is not a shortage until the msm says it is. Once the public finds out what item may not be available, they start hoarding it and the supply goes down.

[ExTexasRedhead]

All this is on purpose and by design!

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Just another example of why anyone that is able to do so, should grow their own fruits and veggies and raise their own meat animals, and/or learn to hunt and fish.

Works every time it’s tried. :)

But, a French Fry shortage in South Korea effects me how, exactly?

[No_Mas_Obama]

Oil crossing $75 yet you haven’t seen anything yet when it comes to the upcoming crushing Bidinflation.

[Salgak]

Fear not Bill Gates’ “meatless world”.

He’s an Eloi. And we Morlocks, excuse me, Deplorables, know what to do with them. . . . (evil grin)