In this week's food industry news in 2 minutes, we examine Texas Roadhouse's top score in the latest customer satisfaction index.

In this week's food industry news in 2 minutes, we examine how Amazon is reportedly testing humanoid delivery workers.

This Episode is Sponsored By: Tibersoft 

Data is becoming more and more important to the food-away-from home sector, but the quality of both the data and the people who handle it remain key to success. Tibersoft’s Suzanne Cwik joined The Food Institute Podcast to discuss how speed, precision, and efficiency should be the cornerstones of a data management plan.  

More About Suzanne Cwik: 

Suzanne Cwik, Tibersoft’s VP of Commercial and Client Services, brings two decades of experience in the foodservice industry, having held leadership roles across finance, trade strategy, sales planning, and client services in both CPG and SaaS organizations. Known for her disciplined approach, analytical mindset, and unwavering commitment to client success, Suzanne has built a career around driving revenue growth, operational efficiency, and data-driven strategy. She is passionate about helping clients transform complex data into actionable insights and empowering high-performing teams to deliver measurable value.

More About Tibersoft: 

Tibersoft’s industry-leading foodservice optimization performance (FPO) software solutions deliver actionable insights for growth. Tibersoft provides transaction-verified, location-level visibility into foodservice data, allowing manufacturers to make strategic decisions that drive sales and improve profitability. To learn more about this Food Institute Member, please get in touch with Tibersoft at Contact Us - Tibersoft.

In this week's food industry news in 2 minutes, we examine the fast-casual dining sector's surprisingly strong start to 2025.

In this week's food industry news in 2 minutes, we examine how major retailers like Walmart and Target are responding to the tariff situation.

Just how difficult is it to scale a better-for-you snack company? Rebecca Brady, founder and CEO of Top Seedz, shares how she turned a homegrown idea into a rapidly scaling snack brand and breaks down the strategy behind her growth, from bootstrapping production to landing national retail partnerships.

More about Rebecca Brady:

Rebecca grew up in New Zealand, where she spent her childhood playing sports and enjoying the outdoors. She studied Marketing and Management at Victoria University before spending ten years working across various companies in Singapore, including six years at Hewlett-Packard. She then moved to Japan, where she lived for another decade while raising her children. In 2015, Rebecca and her family relocated to Buffalo, NY. After facing challenges re-entering the workforce due to a career gap, she started her own business, Top Seedz, creating healthy, seed-based snacks. Rebecca serves on the board of the Darwin Martin House and enjoys playing squash, pickleball, and golf in her free time.

More about Top Seedz:

Based in Buffalo, NY, Top Seedz has been making hand-made seed crackers and roasted seeds since 2017. All products are organic, gluten free, vegan and Kosher. Top Seedz products are insanely delicious and are made from a range of seeds including pumpkin, sesame, sunflower, flax, chia and hemp seeds. Rebecca Brady, a New Zealander, had always baked them as snacks to have on-hand for her family to enjoy. Together with her family, she moved to the U.S. in 2015, unable to find a job, in 2017 she started selling her products at a farmers market. From there she grew the business and Top Seedz can now be found in over 3,000 stores across the U.S. The crackers can be served with your favorite cheese, hummus or spread and the roasted seeds are perfect atop yogurt, salad or by the handful. Their products are filled with wholesome ingredients and have a slew of good-for-you benefits, created on the belief that good food equals good performance.

Learn more at: https://topseedz.com/

In this week's food industry news in 2 minutes, we examine beef's resurgence among male Gen Z consumers.

In this week's food industry news in 2 minutes, we examine rising egg prices and Cal-Maine's reaction to them.

In this week's food industry news in 2 minutes, we examine a parasite - the New World screwworm - that has the ag industry on edge.

In this week's food industry news in 2 minutes, we examines what's behind record-high U.S. meat sales of late.