{"id":1053,"date":"2018-02-14T20:34:14","date_gmt":"2018-02-14T20:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawkerstreetfood.com\/?p=1053"},"modified":"2018-02-14T20:34:49","modified_gmt":"2018-02-14T20:34:49","slug":"health-convenience-finally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawkerstreetfood.com\/index.php\/2018\/02\/14\/health-convenience-finally\/","title":{"rendered":"Health and Convenience \u2013 Finally?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Healthy food delivery<\/a>.\u00a0 It almost sounds like an oxymoron, doesn\u2019t it?\u00a0 When you think about food delivery: you think about pizza, Chinese takeout, with a soda.\u00a0 At least, many people do.\u00a0 As we all know though \u2013 not too many industries have experienced a kind of reversal as much as the food industry.\u00a0 As millennials move away from fast-food and even upscale restaurants towards local and fresh food; we see that young adults care about their body more than possibly any other generation previously.<\/p>\n

Of course; there is a good reason for this.\u00a0 Obesity is at an all-time high globally.\u00a0 The World Health Organization estimates that obesity has tripled globally since 1975, which is more than startling.\u00a0 As a result, it is no surprise that Whole Foods has been able to emerge as a dominant grocery chain and ultimately prove its worth to the point where Amazon had to acquire them.\u00a0 Casual dining has been replaced with fast casual \u2013 and while we all like something tasty, we also want to eat something fresh, without as little chemicals as possible in the modern world.<\/p>\n

The emergence of Whole Foods \u2013 which was considerably more expensive \u2013 also proves that we are willing to pay MORE for healthy food.\u00a0 Another great example is Juice Press.\u00a0 Founded by Marcus Antebi; this chain offering smoothies, juices, soups, and salads, was able to open an astonishing sixty locations within six years \u2013 the majority all in New York City!\u00a0 Considering that New York City is a microcosm of ethnicity, age, and background \u2013 it is a testament to the diverse demographic that are all interested in eating healthier and changing their diet to improve their health.\u00a0 Mind you \u2013 the products there are not cheap, but the stores are incredibly successful.\u00a0 Even high-profile celebrities with massive social media followings, like Gigi Hadid, have co-signed the chain.<\/p>\n

The start-up world has certainly taken note.\u00a0 Interestingly enough, in our ever-changing world that allows the individual to customize as much as possible \u2013 healthy food delivery has emerged in the form of startups such as Blue Apron: where items are delivered to you, all healthy, and tasty (or at least advertised as such) \u2013 while you chef up the food to your specificity.\u00a0 In case you thought it was a fluke \u2013 Blue Apron has quite the competition in other companies, such as HelloFresh, Plated, and Green Chef.\u00a0 Wall Street even got behind Blue Apron, as it recently had a successful IPO.<\/p>\n

It is evident that while fast-food may stick around, and always be convenient \u2013 that we care, more than ever, what we put into our body.\u00a0 It\u2019s as if the message finally got through: we are what we eat, and we want to eat better and be better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Healthy food delivery.\u00a0 It almost sounds like an oxymoron, doesn\u2019t it?\u00a0 When you think about<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1054,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food-and-drink"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawkerstreetfood.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawkerstreetfood.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawkerstreetfood.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawkerstreetfood.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawkerstreetfood.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1053"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawkerstreetfood.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1055,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawkerstreetfood.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053\/revisions\/1055"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawkerstreetfood.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawkerstreetfood.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawkerstreetfood.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawkerstreetfood.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}