
The Future of Eating Out Lecture Series
Buffeted by COVID, climate change, labor shortages, and other stressors, the food and beverage industry around the world is in crisis and transition. How are practices of eating out changing? Where are restaurants, street vendors and other eateries headed? This is a series of lectures and dialogues with leaders in food researchers and practitioners to see where the global business of eating out is headed during and after the COVID-19 crisis. Looking at eateries on different scales from gourmet restaurants to street vendors, we hope to gain insights that can be shared across national and local contexts. This online lecture series is organized by the Global Food Project of the Institute of Comparative Culture at Sophia University and the New York University Nutrition and Food Studies, with funding from Sophia University. Lectures will be held on zoom and made available to interested viewers around the world.


Inaugural Dialogue
The Future of Eating Out:
A Transnational Dialogue with Prof. Krishnendu Ray
Available on Video

The Future of Eating Out Lecture Series
The Future of Eating Out: A View from South Africa
Jean-Pierre Rossouw, Publisher of Rossouw’s Restaurants
Event on Zoom
March 30, 2022, 10 pm (Tokyo time)
Available on Video

The Future of Eating Out Lecture Series
The Future of Eating Out: A View from India in the Wake of Covid
Rushina Munshaw Ghildiyal, Culinary Chronicler, Teacher and Corporate Food Consultant
Event on Zoom
May 10, 2022, 9:30~10:30 pm (Tokyo time)
May 10, 2022, 6:00~7:00 pm (India time)
May 10, 2022, 8:30~9:30 am (East Cost USA time)
Please register from HERE