Alexia Elejalde-Ruiz

A variety of Oreo cookies, made by Mondelez International.

Three square meals? That was then. The maker of Oreos and Ritz aims to be a ‘snacking powerhouse’ now.

December 24, 2019 at 10:26 a.m.

The world is snacking. And Mondelez International, the food giant behind megabrands Oreos and Ritz, is angling to be a "snacking powerhouse" ready with the right cookie, cracker or nutritious...

Employees prepare orders for customers along the line in front of the open kitchen, Dec. 19, 2019 at a new Chipotle in Wrigleyville. The location is one of four new test restaurants the Newport Beach, California-based burrito chain is opening to identify the best design to roll out nationally.

Chipotle wants to change how its restaurants look, and Chicago is getting a sneak peek at one option

December 19, 2019 at 3:51 p.m.

Chipotle Mexican Grill has opened a test restaurant in Chicago's Wrigleyville neighborhood designed to handle the growing number of orders placed online. The shop at 1027 W. Addison St., which...

Federal labor board hands Fight for $15 a major defeat in its push to unionize McDonald’s

December 13, 2019 at 8:55 a.m.

In a huge win for McDonald's, the National Labor Relations Board on Thursday absolved the Chicago-based fast-food giant of responsibility for labor violations allegedly committed by its franchisees. In a...

Workers install equipment on Dec. 9, 2019, at Local Market at 71st Street and Jeffery Boulevard in Chicago's South Shore neighborhood.

Goodbye, food desert. Hello, Local Market. South Shore finally gets grocery store six years after Dominick’s closed.

December 13, 2019 at 12:22 p.m.

Six years after Dominick's shuttered its South Shore supermarket, leaving a swath of the neighborhood in a food desert, a new grocery store has opened in its place. Local Market,...

Manager Rachael Campo checks out a customer and loads food into a cart at the register at Aldi on Nov. 14, 2019 in Downers Grove.

Budget Shangri-La: How discount chain Aldi is giving those fancy grocery stores a run for their money

December 10, 2019 at 10:41 a.m.

For years, Amber Walker held a dim view of Aldi, the discount grocer whose U.S. headquarters sit just a mile from her Batavia home. She associated it with dented 10-cent...

Ibtissam Ghanem, center, serves people at the St. Ignatius Church food pantry in the Rogers Park neighborhood on Dec. 4, 2019, in Chicago.

Feds tighten work rules for food stamps: 688,000 adults could lose benefits

December 5, 2019 at 6:25 a.m.

The Trump administration on Wednesday announced changes to the federal food stamp program that will make it harder for states to exempt adults from the program's work requirements, a move...

Post harvest Scientist Fang Tham, 23, tests the firmness of a chayote with a durometer at Hazel Technologies in Chicago's Bronzeville neighborhood on Nov. 15, 2019.

Brown bananas and squishy avocados no more? Food tech developed in Chicago and elsewhere could keep your produce from going bad.

November 30, 2019 at 8:59 a.m.

Imagine bananas that never go bad. To Aidan Mouat, CEO of Chicago-based Hazel Technologies, it's not so far-fetched. His company makes a product that extends the shelf life of all...

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