The U.S. “Cable News Network” (CNN) reported on the 8th, due to the impact of the new crown pneumonia (COVID-19) epidemic, the U.S. take-out and delivery catering services have grown significantly, which in turn has led to a huge increase in demand for the most popular small packets of ketchup for U.S. consumers, triggering a “ketchup shortage” across the United States. The “ketchup shortage”, restaurant operators struggled to find a few packets of ketchup.
According to reports, as the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) urged people to not use shared large bottles of ketchup in restaurants during the epidemic, and recommended reducing take-out food, try to take away or call for delivery, resulting in a huge increase in demand for small packets of ketchup, many caterers simply can not call for goods. In Denver, Colorado (Denver) to open a restaurant Fuselier (Chris Fuselier) said the situation is so bad that when he went to McDonald’s and other fast food restaurants to eat, have to take as many packets as possible, as their own restaurant inventory.
Under the soaring demand, of course, the selling price also climbed. Comprehensive U.S. media reports, since January 2020 to date, the price of small packets of ketchup in the United States has risen 13%; the country’s famous chain of fast food restaurants Hazik (Long John Silver’s), has reportedly spent $ 500,000 to ensure that the small packets of ketchup in stock. eBay site even appeared on the sale of many small packets of ketchup auction, before the restaurant free delivery of inconspicuous The small stuff that used to be given away for free in restaurants now retails for $0.20 per packet, and a lot of people are buying it.
Heinz, which accounts for 70 percent of the U.S. ketchup supply market, has increased production since the beginning of the 2020 pandemic, but demand still exceeds supply; to meet the needs of gourmets, the company has announced that it expects to increase production by a whopping 25 percent, and will be able to produce up to 12 billion small packets of ketchup each year.
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