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Want to be rich? Make healthy food as easy to eat and as tasty as junk food. It seems no one is working on that.

• Mikeb85 13y ago
  My first career was in the food industry, as a chef (and later a pastry chef). I was fairly successful (relative to expectations within the industry), however there are some major issues with the industry. First of all, food related businesses have high startup costs, high maintenance costs, low margins, and don't scale well. There's many incumbants, tastes are localized, sourcing produce can be a nightmare (if you want good produce), and every market is different. And because of the low margins, wages are low, the workforce is uneducated, and then you have to deal with things like high turnover and theft. Which is why most people in the food industry are sociopaths. Anyhow, there is already fairly healthy, tasty fast food out there already, things like shawarma, falafel, some tacos, and most 'traditional' ethnic snacks.