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Swiss food giant Nestle reported its best quarterly sales growth in nearly five years on Friday as consumers stockpiled such items as Purina pet food, Nescafe coffee and frozen meals in preparation for coronavirus lockdowns. Sales in North America and Europe were particularly strong in March, helping to drive an overall rise of 4.3 percent …

Smithfield Foods is driving workers at a Missouri pork plant so hard during the coronavirus crisis that they can’t even cover their mouths to sneeze, a new lawsuit says. The meat-processing giant has threatened to punish workers for missing a single piece of meat on the production line at its plant in Milan, Missouri, according …

The New York City Council wants to ban food-ordering apps like Grubhub from charging most of their usual fees to restaurants during any government-ordered state of emergency, The Post has learned. The bill seeks to prohibit food-ordering and delivery apps like Grubhub’s Seamless Web site, UberEats and Doordash from profiting from Big Apple restaurants during …

Foodgod is joining stars like Robert De Niro, Drake and Leonardo DiCaprio by adding his name to the All In Challenge. The man formerly known as Jonathan Cheban exclusively announced to Page Six on Thursday that he’ll be giving a fan the opportunity to dine with him at a swanky restaurant in New York, Los …

Breakfast is proving the rare bright spot in the coronavirus advertising slump. Companies that help provide the first meal of the day, like cereal makers, upped their ad spending more than 13 percent from February to March as more quarantined Americans suddenly find the time they need to eat breakfast, according to a new report. …

Chipotle is paying a record $25 million fine to settle criminal charges that its burrito joints sickened more than 1,100 people over a three-year period because of lax food-safety practices, the Department of Justice said Tuesday. The fast-food chain made headlines repeatedly between 2015 and 2018 for multi-state food-borne illness outbreaks — including one that …

Just call him Watergod. Foodgod donated an 18-wheeler full of drinks to Miami’s Mount Sinai Hospital and University of Miami Health Center last Friday to give healthcare workers a refreshing reprieve from their fight against coronavirus. The man formerly known as Jonathan Cheban described the experience as “such an honor.” “It was a really great …

Whole Foods is reportedly using an “interactive heat map” to monitor its stores and flag locations that are at risk of unionizing. The Amazon-owned supermarket chain — whose 510 stores employ 95,000 nationwide — scores each of its stores on a number of factors, including employee “‘loyalty,’ turnover, and racial diversity” according to Business Insider, …

If New York City hot dog stands could deliver, business would be booming right now. Sales of fermented cabbages like sauerkraut and kimchi have spiked as consumers sought to bolster their immune systems against the deadly virus. Sauerkraut sales surged 960 percent year-over-year in the week of March 29 while overall grocery sales rose just …

Party with a purpose — from home. DJs Diplo and Dillon Francis are joining forces for a back-to-back livestream set dubbed “Coronight Fever” on Saturday that will feed underprivileged families with the help of DoorDash. Page Six has exclusively learned that the food delivery service is donating one free meal to a family in need …