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Widget (beer)
Widget (beer): a small hollow device, invented at Guinness in Dublin in 1968 by Tony Carey and Sammy Hildebrand, placed in cans or bottles of nitrogenated beer such as Guinness Draught; it releases a pressurized jet of beer and nitrogen on opening to create a draught-style creamy foam head.
Wiener schnitzel
Wiener Schnitzel, Vienna schnitzel, is Austria's breaded veal cutlet from the Kalbsschlögel, fried in pork lard with a puffed soufflé crust; only veal may bear the name, pork is Schnitzel Wiener Art.
Will Guidara
Will Guidara, American restaurateur and co-founder of Make It Nice, transformed Eleven Madison Park with chef Daniel Humm into the World's 50 Best number 1 in 2017 and wrote the bestseller Unreasonable Hospitality (2022).
Will Keith Kellogg
Will Keith Kellogg (W.K. Kellogg, 1860–1951) was the Battle Creek, Michigan businessman who founded the Kellogg Company in 1906, popularized corn flakes, and in 1930 established the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, distinct from brother John Harvey Kellogg.
William Grant & Sons
William Grant & Sons, independent family-owned Scottish spirits distiller founded 1887 by William Grant, maker of Glenfiddich, The Balvenie, Grant's, Hendrick's, Monkey Shoulder and Tullamore D.E.W.; six generations of family ownership, 2025 turnover £1.76bn.
Willie Wilson (businessman)
Willie Wilson (born 1948, Gilbert, Louisiana) is a Chicago businessman, philanthropist, and perennial candidate who owned five McDonald's franchises, founded Omar Medical Supplies, created the Emmy-winning gospel show Singsation!, and has run for Chicago mayor in 2015, 2019, 2023, and 2027, plus president in 2016 and U.S. Senate in 2020.
Willment Leong
Willment Leong is a Singapore-born chef based in Bangkok, Continental Director for Asia at Worldchefs, chairman of World Chefs Without Borders, founder of the Thailand Culinary Academy, and a UN World Food Programme Goodwill Ambassador.
Wimpy (restaurant)
Wimpy, also Wimpy Bar or Wimpy Grills, is a hamburger chain founded in Indiana in 1934, named after Popeye's J. Wellington Wimpy. Now owned by South Africa's Famous Brands, it has about 544 South African restaurants and 61 table-service UK outlets.
Windsor-style pizza
Windsor-style pizza is Windsor, Ontario's regional pizza, distinct from Detroit-style: medium-thin cornmeal crust, Galati mozzarella, shredded pepperoni, canned mushrooms, born at Volcano Pizzeria (1957).
Wine bottle
Wine bottle: the standard ~750 ml glass container for wine, developed from 14th-century glass to the 1820s cylindrical mold; sealed by cork, screw cap, or synthetic stopper; glass dominates wine packaging though LCAs favor bag-in-box and refillable formats.
Wine cooperative
Wine cooperative: a grower-owned winemaking firm (cave coopérative, cantina sociale) where members deliver grapes to a jointly owned cellar under one-member-one-vote governance; by the 1980s cooperatives made over half the wine of France, Italy, and Spain.
Wine gum
Wine gums (winegums) are chewy, firm British pastille sweets with no alcohol, introduced by Maynards in 1909. Made from starch and gelatine, stamped with drink names like Port and Sherry; vegan variants exist.
Wine Institute
Wine Institute is the public policy advocacy association of California wineries, founded in 1934 after Prohibition's repeal; it represents nearly 1,000 wineries at state, federal, and international levels.
Wine museum
A wine museum is an institution dedicated to collecting and displaying the material culture of vines and wine, from archaeological ceramics to vineyard tools and label archives.
Wine rating systems
Wine rating systems are numeric or symbolic scoring schemes critics and publications use to judge wine quality, with scores above 90 points driving marketing and sales.
Wine tasting descriptors
Wine tasting descriptors are the vocabulary for describing wine's appearance, aroma, taste, and mouthfeel, organized by systems such as the WSET SAT, the CMS deductive grid, and Noble's Aroma Wheel.
Winemaking
Winemaking: production of wine by fermenting grape sugars into ethanol and carbon dioxide, spontaneously or with selected yeasts. Covers maceration, carbonic maceration, ancestral versus traditional sparkling methods, vessels, and OIV-regulated practice.
Wingstop
Wingstop (Wingstop Inc.), American fast casual chicken wings chain founded 1994 in Garland, Texas, Nasdaq: WING since 2015; 3,056 restaurants, ~98% franchised, $5.3 billion fiscal 2025 system-wide sales.
Wolfgang Puck
Wolfgang Puck (born 1949, Austria) is an Austrian-American celebrity chef and restaurateur who opened Spago in West Hollywood in 1982, pioneered California cuisine, gourmet pizza, and open kitchens, and built a brand of more than 100 restaurants including CUT, plus the Oscars Governors Ball.
Women chefs with Michelin stars
Women chefs with Michelin stars: female chefs leading MICHELIN-starred restaurants, also called starred cheffes. About 6% of starred restaurants worldwide are female-led; Anne-Sophie Pic, Dominique Crenn, Clare Smyth, and Hélène Darroze hold three stars each.
Women's March on Versailles
The Women's March on Versailles, also known as the October Days, was a 1789 uprising in which Parisian women demanding bread forced King Louis XVI to Paris.
Wonder Bread
Wonder Bread: American packaged white bread brand founded 1921 in Indianapolis by Taggart Baking, named by Elmer Cline after balloon races; early presliced bread, FTC 1971 case, owned by Flowers Foods since 2012.
Wonka Bar
Wonka Bar: fictional chocolate bar from Roald Dahl's 1964 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, made real by Quaker Oats for the 1971 film, later Nestlé, now Ferrero with a 2026 Netflix-tied relaunch.
Wonton
Wonton (馄饨, húntun; Cantonese 云吞, Sichuan 抄手) is a Chinese dumpling of minced pork or shrimp in a thin square wheat wrapper, boiled and served in broth or with chili oil; recorded since the Western Han and split from jiaozi by the Tang dynasty.
Woodford Reserve
Woodford Reserve: Brown-Forman's Kentucky straight bourbon, launched 1996 at the historic Labrot & Graham distillery in Versailles; 72/18/10 mash bill, triple pot distillation, 90.4 proof, Official Bourbon of the Kentucky Derby since 1999.
Woolworths Group (Australia)
Woolworths Group Limited (ABN 88 000 014 675), Australian retailer founded with its first Sydney store in December 1924, renamed from Woolworths Limited in 2017; holds 38% of Australian supermarket grocery sales per the ACCC 2025 inquiry.
Woolworths Supermarkets
Woolworths Supermarkets, the Fresh Food People brand of Woolworths Group, is Australia's largest supermarket chain: founded 1924 in Sydney, 38% grocery market share, 1,112 Australian and 181 New Zealand stores, subject to the mandatory Grocery Code and ACCC pricing proceedings.
Worcestershire sauce
Worcestershire sauce, made famous by Lea & Perrins, is a fermented vinegar-and-anchovy condiment created by chemists Lea and Perrins in Worcester, England, sold from 1837, matured 18 months, now owned by Kraft Heinz and exported to over 130 countries.
Workers United
Workers United is an SEIU-affiliated labor union formed March 21, 2009, representing 86,000+ workers in apparel, laundry, food service, hospitality, and related industries in the US and Canada, and known for the Starbucks Workers United organizing campaign.
World Central Kitchen
World Central Kitchen (WCK) is a 501(c)3 nonprofit founded in 2010 by chef José Andrés after the Haiti earthquake, serving chef-prepared meals in disaster and war zones, including Ukraine and Gaza, where seven workers were killed in April 2024.