Lockdown lunches

Business Daily

BBC

News, Business

4.4 • 796 Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2020

⏱️ 19 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

How have our eating habits changed during a year when lockdowns have seen more of us cooking from home and fewer of us sharing meals out with colleagues? And can Zoom calls replace the networking coffee or dinner? Elizabeth Hotson speaks to one-time office workers for whom eating out was just part and parcel of life. Justin Urqhuart-Stuart, co-founder of Regionally casts doubt on the ability of remote working to replicate a true deal-making environment and Dominic Allport, an insight director at the NPD group tells us about the financial impact of the shifts in eating habits. Produced by Sarah Treanor. (Picture of takeaway food via Getty Images).

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	I'm Elizabeth Hotson and in today's Business Daily, I'll be finding out how our eating habits have changed during the coronavirus pandemic.
0:08.9	There's something so lovely about being able to walk into a space and to know that you're being cared for, that you don't have to do that dish after.
0:16.8	And now it's just sort of full on and all in a small space.
0:20.3	And why there's a light at the end of the tunnel for restaurants.
0:23.9	What I miss most is eating with people, breaking bread with people, farms are born.
0:29.4	And that's the biggest thing I miss.
0:31.7	This is Business Daily from the BBC.
0:37.0	I do not enjoy being in the kitchen. In fact, I abhor being in the kitchen. I do not enjoy being in the kitchen.
0:39.1	In fact, I abhorred being in the kitchen.
0:41.2	My idea of cooking is my French press.
0:44.6	You know, I'm the ultimate New Yorker in that sense.
0:47.0	I do like to make eggs, but I've realized over months that making eggs is not going to sustain me.
0:52.4	And I can roast vegetables, which I don't think
0:55.2	is cooking. But that's the extent of it. Erin Orwise is the founder of the number 29 PR agency.
1:03.1	She lives in New York and before coronavirus, eating out was just part and parcel of life.
1:09.5	Oh my gosh. I'm sort of embarrassed for myself, but I ate out daily. I often
1:14.6	would wake up. Sometimes I would make coffee, but there was something about the ritual of going to
1:19.1	my local coffee shop and just sitting there before starting the day. And then I would probably
1:25.5	bring something with me for breakfast. I would either pick up lunch.
1:29.1	I would either pick up lunch.
1:30.3	I would go out and meet somebody else for lunch.
1:33.1	I joke that restaurants are both my kitchen but also my office.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from BBC, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of BBC and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.