What a ride!
Today I created a twitter-poll that you can see HERE
Basically the world is turning upside down and we’re just trying to keep a positive attitude about it all. So we created a game out of it. “GUESS THE SHORTAGE!”
It’s a real fun game where you guess what is unavailable, or soon going to be unavailable, out of a list of things we serve.
National shortages are a real bummer. There is no single reason as to why these shortages are happening. We’ve heard several reasons from our vendors and food manufacturers. However, a shortage of one thing will bring innovation of another.
The Twitter poll that I created asks our Twitter Fam “What will be the next shortage in our kitchen?” and in the list provided there is sirloin steak, brown gravy, cheese, and ranch dressing. At the time of writing the poll shows that the people are mostly guessing that ranch dressing will be the next shortage we have.
It’s actually nacho cheese.
That’s right everyone, you got the scoop here for being a reader of my blog.
Not being able to make nacho cheese is pretty serious. What happened?
Remember when Texas froze over?
Well, apparently there were some stores of raw ingredients that got ruined in that freeze. The emergency stores also got ruined. Those raw ingredients were in a lot of different products, but mainly it was used to make enriched corn starch… which is also in a ton of products. The term perfect storm comes to mind because so many things had to happen and now so many things will be affected by this shortage.
I’m not so sure how long the glass shortage will last, or the tin shortage, or the ketchup shortage, or the oil shortage… but I have a feeling that this shortage could last a long time.
Or not!
What do I know?
French Frys and Copper.
Maybe a little gardening and sustainability, but…
That’s it.
Thx for reading.
-mj