This Week in Food News

With 80 percent of Millennials report having never eaten a Big Mac, I’m sure the folks at McDonald’s were none to pleased when learning this finding in the Wall Street Journal, nor were their stockholders. After all, these are the food trend-setters that everyone seems to want to reach. 

According to the WSJ report, Millennials crave fresh ingredients and smaller craft burgers that promise made to order beef patties other than McDonald's frozen ground beef. The Golden Arches has attempted the made-to-order approach with higher quality ingredients but that comes at a price, and customers are not willing to pay $5 for those sandwiches. Perhaps its time for the folks in Oakbrook, Ill., to take a field trip to Shake Shack, Bareburger and others to see just what’s going on in the burger world. 

Meanwhile, how far would you go to save money on food?

It’s a question that BuffetGo offers an answer. The app lets users buy leftover food from restaurant buffets at up to 90 percent off the original price. All you have to do is enter your ZIP code, order a meal and pick it up – usually at the restaurant’s closing time. You fill up a to-go container from the buffet and enjoy. 

The service is proven in 8 countries and started in Finland. Besides saving people big bucks, the other mission of the company is to reduce waste. BuffetGo reports that globally, it saves more than 240,000 portions of food from being sent to landfills each day and donates 20 percent of its profit to United Nations World Food Programme, whose mission is to reduce hunger.

To give it a spin, go to BuffetGo, type in your ZIP code and see which restaurants are in your area. Here in LA, they range from hotel buffets to Indian to a lot of Chinese food buffet, all in the $4-$5 range.