Food

How restaurants are snagging the new pack of snackers

The demand for anytime, anywhere eating keeps rising, and operators are noticing, competing to offer a greater variety of value-priced and inventive snacks to steal customers away from retail.
Snagging the new pack of snackers. Animation by Nico Heins with Midjourney

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