The poultry paucity comes after a tumultuous year in the meat industry, with the coronavirus pandemic upending supply chains and infecting tens of thousands of workers.
It seems the poultry paucity has arrived, heralded by a series of fast-food executives describing in earnings calls their stores struggles to stock enough chicken - nuggets, tenders, wings, patties, all shapes and sizes - to keep pace with legions of peckish Americans. Demand for the new sandwich has been so strong that, coupled with general tightening in domestic chicken supply, our main challenge has been keeping up with that demand, said David Gibbs, CEO of Yum Brands, whose KFC restaurants recently rolled out a new fried-chicken sandwich. Charles Morrison, chairman and CEO of Wingstop, said this week that Suppliers are struggling, just as many in our industry are, to hire people to process chicken, thus placing unexpected pressure on the amount of birds that can be processed and negatively affecting supply of all parts of the chicken in the US, not just wings.
Print article It’s not like we weren’t warned. The doomsayers predicted this months ago: “A MASSIVE CHICKEN WING SHORTAGE IS BREWING,” blared the headline of one trade publication in early February. But it turned out to be so much worse. Bloomberg News, on Thursday: “Fried-Chicken Craze Is Causing U.S. to Run Low on Poultry.” In other words, not just wings, but chicken in general. Or, as Bojangles put it in a recent tweet about their tenders: “we’re experiencing a system-wide shortage :( But they will be back soon!” It seems the poultry paucity has arrived, heralded by a series of fast-food executives describing in earnings calls their stores’ struggles to stock enough chicken nuggets, tenders, wings, patties, all shapes and sizes to keep pace with legions of peckish Americans.
Too Many Lost: Honoring Workers Who Have Died from COVID-19 and Other Workplace Hazards Photo: Bobby Stevens Photo/Shutterstock
Too Many Lost: Honoring Workers Who Have Died from COVID-19 and Other Workplace Hazards
Kathleen Rest, executive director | April 28, 2021, 5:00 am EDT This post is a part of a series on
Take a moment. Today, April 28, is not just another day. It’s Worker Memorial Day, the day when people in the US and around the world pause to recognize, remember, and honor those who have suffered and died of injuries and illnesses related to their work.
Perhaps you know one of these workers someone you loved, cared about, depended on a family member, friend, neighbor, colleague, co-worker. But for sure, it’s also someone whose name you don’t know; someone whose work and service provided you and yours with something you needed, wanted, and more than likely took f