Why is the U.S. seeing a ketchup shortage?

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The U.S. is facing the shortage of individual ketchup packets, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, restaurants across the country have received more take-out and delivery orders.

Demand rose for single-serving ketchup sachets that restaurants give free-of-charge with take-out food.

The price for individual ketchup packets has increased 13 percent since January 2020.

Kraft Heinz, the biggest ketchup company in the U.S., holds nearly 70 percent of the U.S. retail market forketchup.

The company plans to add 25 percent more manufacturing capacity to produce 12 billionketchuppackets a year.

First, the U.S. experienced a toilet paper shortage in the early months of the pandemic.

Now it's ketchup. What’s the next shortage related to COVID-19?

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