Meal Magazine: Joe Rosenthal, Food Antagonist

“Rosenthal may seem an unlikely superhero. By day, he’s a mathematician who builds systems to improve cancer diagnostics. These days, his work has branched into COVID-19 research. But by night, the 32-year-old scientist swoops into the dark, dusty corners of the online food world, bringing to light abuses, injustices, and other unsavory behavior perpetrated by the restaurant industry’s power brokers. 

“It’s this common problem in computer science, you go where the data is,” Rosenthal says of his investigations. “That’s what I’m doing; I’m going where the information is.”"