Foodthink says If the previous part took us inside the McDonald’s kitchen, revealing a high-speed mini-factory operating in 90-second intervals, this instalment will explore how that factory is managed and maintained. From price anchoring in combo meal design to ever-shrinking store footprints; from Scheduling Experts and Shared Store…
Between 06:00 on 14 July and 06:00 on 15 July, the county-level city of Dunhua City in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture of Jilin Province—situated along the banks of the Mudan River—shattered local historical records for 24-hour rainfall. Water levels across several local rivers rose relentlessly before eventually overflowing.…
Foodthink says McDonald’s wears two faces. Once a beloved children’s playground, it is now a fast-food grindhouse for young wage earners. It is as much a small-scale factory as it is a place to dine. McDonald’s kitchens are open-plan, yet they conceal a highly precise production workflow. Within…
Over the past few years, a growing number of food companies have begun to publicise their emission reduction targets and environmental contributions, and food packaging has increasingly featured marketing terms such as ‘sustainable’, ‘recyclable’, ‘low-carbon’ and ‘climate-friendly’. These claims are designed to persuade consumers that simply purchasing the product…
Author’s Note When I first drafted this in October 2024, it was heavy with emotion. I couldn’t quite grasp how the company operated; I was angry, resentful. Revising the piece this year, after my own “baptism of fire” at another state-owned enterprise, those incidents now seem fairly unremarkable in hindsight.…
We must make hope possible, not despair credible—only then can we walk the road to peace. — Raymond Williams Shortly after the raid on Venezuela, on 28 February 2026, US forces struck a primary school in Iran, killing at least 175 people, most of them children.…
Extreme weather has shifted from ‘news’ to ‘the everyday’, and we need action rooted in the land and driven by genuine needs more than ever. At the end of April this year, Foodthink officially launched the sixth round of the Lianhe Plan small (action) grants. We are…
In recent years, dining experience activities such as “flying kitchens” and “shared supper tables” have begun to gain traction. As a former cook, I was itching to jump in. Isn’t this the dream of anyone who loves to cook? You get to cook to your own heart’s content, free…
Foodthink Says Relief efforts for the floods in Guangxi are ongoing. In the hardest-hit area, Hengzhou in Nanning, the floods have swept through jasmine, paddy rice, sugarcane and banana cultivation, as well as fisheries and pig farming. As recently as the past two years, Hengzhou County had been strengthening…
After graduating with my undergraduate degree in 2025, I did not rush to find a stable job. Instead, I wandered in circles, searching for what I believed a good life ought to be. As the years passed, I—raised between cramped buildings and concrete—began to realise that nature could comfort…
