“It’s something new every day,” said Lafrance. At Flanagan Foodservice, President and CEO Dan Lafrance says their list of what they consistently stock is shorter than their list of what’s regularly out of stock. Retail and trade suppliers tell similar stories of stock shortages.
I checked into the Arabesque Family Restaurant in Kitchener, and while their hummus production for their Middle Eastern menu is currently going strong, they’ve had some trouble sourcing tahini lately. ”Īs wheat shortages from earlier in Russia’s war against Ukraine are slowly being made good, Charlebois reckons we can expect shortages of chickpeas – big trouble for hummus lovers – and cocoa, which would be disappointing if you love chocolate at Halloween and Christmas. “Of course it is now much more critical for the catering trade, although they can make replacements. It’s maybe every six months,” Charlebois said. “Last year it was a terrible must harvest but we won’t hear about shortages until later next year. Grainy mustard could be harder to find in the coming months, experts have warned. (We ship our mustard seeds elsewhere to be processed into mustard and then buy them back at an added value, which is a very different economic matter). He says another humble condiment - mustard - could also be in short supply in the near future, despite Canada being the world’s largest producer of mustard seed. I think we’ll hear about shortages on different things depending on how demand works,” Charlebois said. “It’s going to be a theme that continues into the fall and winter. While he thinks the supply lines are becoming more stable, Sylvain Charlebois, director of the Agri-Food Analytics Lab at Dalhousie University, thinks they are shaky. “It took me three months to source salt crackers,” he said. And then the price went up,” said de Jong.Īccording to Fat Sparrow’s Nick Benninger, even an ordinary and humble cellophane-wrapped page to dip in your soup at lunchtime was rare. We will buy some and it will be four to six weeks before we can find them again. What is missing is sometimes surprising: cornstarch, for example.
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