The code now adorns tens of millions of different items, scanned in retail establishments around the world at the rate of more than five billion times a day.
Earlier winners have shadowed such luminaries as Thomas Keller of the French Laundry in California and Alain Ducasse, who has 19 Michelin stars between his establishments around the world.
The resulting data has increased understanding of penning, stocking rates, egg incubation, hatching, rearing, and diet, and this information has been used at other establishments around the world.
Are there redoubts which cater to those who present the face of ISIS to the world and do these cafes and restaurants, if they exist, have anything in common with similar establishments around the world?
This epiphany, along with my passion to keep cities clean and beautiful, led me to create Restaurantware, a company that strives to provide eco-friendly tableware to food establishments around the world.
These findings go far to explain anti-establishment anger around the world -- which helps drive the popularity of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders in the U.S. and the rise of far right and far left parties across Europe.
In another part of the CNBC interview, Bill Clinton said he thought his wife would win the presidency, but added that he has predicted all along that the race would be tougher than many thought, citing similar anti-establishment sentiment around the world.
The election outcome, a repudiation of the political and media establishment that sent shockwaves around the world, suddenly opened the way for thousands of unexpected job applications from people who would not have found a home in Hillary Clinton administration.
Increasingly, governments became directly involved in these activities, as with the U.S. government's sponsorship of major expeditions to the country's expanding western frontier and the establishment of national mapping agencies around the world.
