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Acid League Shortcut Sauces

Executive Briefing

Recalibrating for retail

The lessons behind Acid League’s new ‘Shortcut’ sauces. Plus: Chipotle on Ozempic, Sweetgreen’s new plates, and a coffee experience I’ll never forget. Read more →

CAVA homepage screenshot

Executive Briefing

Cava gets it done with a big IPO

For all the decades of excitement around Chipotle-for-x concepts, few have made it this far. Read more →

Fishwife smoked salmon

Executive Briefing

What momentum looks like

Also: Chase is buying The Infatuation. And an update on Blue Bottle’s oat-milk-by-default experiment. Read more →

Blue Bottle oat milk

Executive Briefing

Blue Bottle is testing oat milk ‘as the default option’

Also: Lunch is back! And more of Chipotle’s reopening takeaways. Read more →

Blueland CEO Sarah Paiji Yoo

Executive Briefing

What happens to sustainability and ‘clean’ consumption after all this?

Covid-19 has changed how and what what we buy. Will it change why we buy? Read more →

Barneys New York Tokyo Roppongi store

Executive Briefing

Dean & DeLuca, City Bakery, and Barneys are alive — in Tokyo

Plus: What “cyber week” says about us. Read more →