Christine Blank, a veteran freelance writer and editor, covers all aspects of the seafood industry, from fishing to processing to selling and serving the final product. When she is not writing for SeafoodSource, Christine gets to taste scrumptious seafood dishes at U.S. restaurants for her food and travel blog, Flavorful Excursions (www.flavorfulexcursions.net). Christine loves to eat seafood of any kind, but lobster, crab and crawfish are among her favorites. In addition to SeafoodSource.com and SeaFood Business, Christine’s articles have been published in hundreds of leading magazines and newspapers, such as The New York Times, USA Today and Associated Press.
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New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.A.-based shrimp supplier Prime Shrimp is marketing new shrimp burgers that are “free from sodium tripolyphosphate (STPP)” to U.S. retailers and foodservice companies.
STPP is a preservative, emulsifier, and moisture retention sodium agent used in seafood processing that has drawn controversy in the past for its use in dressing up low-grade food products to make them appear higher quality than they actually
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Japanese seafood company Maruha Nichiro, which plans to rebrand as Umios in March 2026, has announced plans to open a restaurant that will feature cultivated seafood.
The Tokyo-based company is partnering with shopping center company Lumine Inc. to open a yet-to-be named seafood restaurant in the NEWoMan Takanawa shopping mall in central Tokyo. The expansive urban development, which opens this September and includes saunas, retail, and coffee
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McKinleyville, California, U.S.A.-based canned and packaged seafood firm Wild Planet Foods is one of several U.S. seafood suppliers that is likely to see a sales boost during Amazon Prime Day 2025, which runs from 8 to 11 July.
Wild Planet Foods, which sells pole and line-caught tuna and other seafood, is offering 20 percent off its 12-packs of Skipjack Wild Tuna and Wild Sardines on the digital retail platform during the four-day deal.
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The One Big Beautiful Bill Act, an omnibus piece of U.S. legislation that President Donald Trump signed into law on 4 July, includes tax policies that will strengthen the U.S. foodservice industry, according to the National Restaurant Association (NRA).
“The pro-growth tax policy in this bill will make it easier to start a restaurant and to continue to improve and modernize as the business grows. It lays the groundwork for long-term
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Issy-les-Moulineaux, France-headquartered food management services firm Sodexo has lowered its growth guidance for its 2025 fiscal year and is laying off employees in the U.S.
The provider of food services to companies, hospitals, schools, universities, stadiums, and more revised its guidance to between 3 percent and 4 percent for its 2025 fiscal year, which is down from its initial guidance of between 5.5 percent and 6.5 percent. This comes
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Portland, Maine, U.S.A.-based Luke’s Lobster is planning to expand its seafood product distribution at retail stores, as well as its restaurant footprint, through new growth equity financing led by investment firm Relentless Consumer Partners in participation with grocery chain Whole Foods Market.
Luke’s announced that the new investment capital will go toward expanding its branded consumer packaged goods product offerings to
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A grouper sandwich in the U.S. state of Florida has become the focal point of the latest public debate on U.S. inflation.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis recently called out the price of a grouper sandwich when visiting a restaurant in Santa Rosa Beach, using it as an example of skyrocketing food costs in general.
“I’m looking at this sign: USD 32 (EUR 27) for a grouper sandwich. [They] are definitely getting those tourists to pony
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