The Ketchup Shortage Is<br />Affecting Fast Food Chains, and Restaurants Across US.<br />The switch during the pandemic from <br />shared bottles to individual packets in order <br />to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus.<br />and the increase in food deliveries have <br />played a significant role in the shortage.<br />Data reveals a 13 percent increase in <br />ketchup packet prices since Jan. 2020. <br />Retail ketchup sales increased by 15 percent, as well.<br />Because the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) <br />currently recommends the use of <br />"single serving condiments,".<br />Heinz has plans to increase <br />its production of single serving <br />ketchup packets by 25 percent.<br />This equates to a production goal of over <br />12 billion packets of ketchup per year.<br />Flour, pepperoni and aluminum cans have also been <br />in shorter supply over the past year
