The Food Professor

Analysis of trends and issues in food, grocery and restaurant industries AI summary

Michael LeBlanc, Dr. Sylvain Charlebois Visit website › Business · EN · 285 episodes · latest 2026-11-13

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Join Dr. Sylvain Charlebois, Senior Director, Agri-Food Analytics Lab at Dalhousie University in Halifax with host Michael LeBlanc as they look at the hot issues in the food, foodservice, grocery and restaurant industries. We'll discuss proprietary industry and consumer food related research, check out fresh new ideas and talk about half baked strategies. © 2020-2026 M.E. LeBlanc & Company Inc. All Rights Reserved.

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Latest episodes

  1. 2026-11-13 · 56 min · Season 7, episode 12

    Juno Award-winning Moist frontman David Usher has been working with AI for years, and he brings that lens to creativity and the future of your morning coffee. Recorded live at the Coffee Association of Canada…

  2. 2026-11-05 · 1 hr 3 min · Season 7, episode 11

    Bernadette Osmow, President of Osmow’s Shawarma, on how founder Sam Osmow’s Mississauga sub shop became a 250-location Mediterranean and Middle Eastern franchise. Bernadette started in the business young, left to build…

  3. 2026-10-29 · 1 hr 1 min · Season 7, episode 10

    Tyler Groeneveld has taken over as CEO of Protein Industries Canada, the Saskatchewan-based innovation cluster that has backed 109 projects across the country in eight years. Reporting from Saskatoon, Sylvain Charlebois…

  4. 2026-10-22 · 1 hr 3 min · Season 7, episode 9

    Murad Al-Katib started AGT Food and Ingredients as a lentil company in his Saskatchewan basement. Today it sells in 127 countries. The AGT founder and CEO explains why Canada’s commodity mindset is holding back…

  5. 2026-10-15 · 51 min · Season 7, episode 8

    Only 34% of Canadian companies have alternative supply options, compared with 44% globally. Vinayak Madappa, Strategic Advisory Partner at Capgemini, unpacks the firm’s World in Balance 2026 study. Michael and Sylvain…

  6. 2026-10-08 · 1 hr 13 min · Season 7, episode 7

    Quebec loves wine, gin and good food. Whisky is a harder sell. Vicky Trépanier, President, and Jean-François Théorêt, Master Distiller, of WfE Distillery in Chambly explain why they make only whisky, how they plan to…

  7. 2026-10-01 · 1 hr 14 min · Season 7, episode 6

    By Amazon's own count, it is now the No. 2 grocer in the U.S., trailing only Walmart, with roughly $100 billion in sales. Jason Buechel, CEO of Whole Foods Market and VP of Amazon Worldwide Grocery Stores, explains how…

  8. 2026-09-24 · 1 hr 2 min · Season 7, episode 5

    Annemarie Swijtink, President & CEO of McDonald's Canada, joins Michael and Sylvain for her first Canadian podcast interview. Annemarie shares how 85% of McDonald's Canada's supply chain is domestic, reaffirms the…

  9. 2026-09-17 · 1 hr 2 min · Season 7, episode 4

    Agtech expert Aidan Connolly, President of AgriTech Capital, joins Sylvain and Michael to separate agtech hype from real value, share his DRIVE framework for AI adoption and rank Canada on an S-to-D agtech tier list. In…

  10. 2026-09-10 · 51 min · Season 7, episode 3

    Vreshin "Vresh" Nagarajan, Founder and Chief Ghee Officer of Vresh Foods and OG GHEE, joins Michael LeBlanc and Dr. Sylvain Charlebois live from SIAL in Montreal to argue that 90% of the ghee sold in Canada isn't really…

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Owner
Michael LeBlanc
Oldest episode in feed
05/2020 · over 6 years
Typical length
43 min
Format
Episodic Newest first, episodes stand alone
Keywords
food, foodservice, grocery, grocery stores, restaurants

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