- by dgranderson@marketresearch.com
- May 14 2014
- coffee
- food and beverage
- beverage
- retail
- foodservice
Innovation reinvigorating and reinventing our daily cup of joe
Our hat is off to coffee innovation, which continues to help a very mature market grow new usage occasions and higher price points. Threading this needle translates to continuing to push the variety envelope while leveraging hot coffee’s dominant position. In the end, it’s largely about raising the price of coffee-or at least getting more money per ounce.
Across restaurant menus, flavors that have universal appeal, such as mocha, chocolate, vanilla, and caramel, have the strongest penetration....
- by Anonymous
- April 25 2014
- breakfast
- breakfast trends
- foodservice breakfast
- foodservice
- international cuisine
In limited-service, foodservice operators take winning strategies to up their breakfast game
Old news: Breakfast is a big opportunity for foodservice
The real scoop: Breakfast consumer decisions are fluid and the space is highly competitive, so act now
The quick-service breakfast game is getting a lot of conversation in the media currently. There is renewed interest in capturing business during a very rushed part of the day.
Breakfast as a business has untapped opportunities. While 10% of consumers were reported by research firm NPD to skip breakfast back in 2011, today 63% of Ame...
- by dgranderson@marketresearch.com
- November 8 2013
- restaurant
- beverages
- juice
- Starbucks
- Jamba Juice
- foodservice
- breakfast
- QSR
Is breakfast juice finally getting its due at restaurants?
With coffee and tea getting so much attention among foodservice players, other stalwart beverage sales drivers such as juice may be getting overlooked. But Packaged Facts’ proprietary June 2013 consumer survey results published in Foodservice Breakfast Trends in the U.S., 2nd Edition suggest that foodservice juice purchases are alive and well, thank you: the last time foodservice breakfast users (who had gotten breakfast/breakfast snacks in the past 30 days) got breakfast or a breakfast snack fr...
- by dgranderson@marketresearch.com
- November 1 2013
- coffee
- foodservice
- retail
- beverage
Border skirmishes in the coffee aisle
As a sign of the ever more competitive environment in the food industry, the supermarket and fast food industries are increasingly border crossing in search of sales growth.
A recent example, as reported in the Wall Street Journal (October 30, 2013): McDonald’s teaming up with Kraft to test market McCafe packaged coffee in k-cups for retail grocery sales.
This new partnership involves a “the competitor of my competitor is my friend” dynamic. A tough quickservice restaurant environment had ea...
- by dgranderson@marketresearch.com
- October 16 2013
- food and beverage
- food trends
- foodservice
- restaurants
- Mediterranean cuisine
More Mediterranean on the menu
Food from Italy, Spain, Morocco, Greece, Turkey and other countries that border the Mediterranean Sea have long been popular in the U.S., but today’s curious eaters are digging deeper to find new dishes and turning to new outlets for fresh and healthful meals.
At the National Restaurant Association Show in 2013, the popularity of this fare was on display in everything from tapas-centric heat-n-serve foods, flatbreads and wraps, to Mediterranean-inspired stuffed meat and cheese items.
Newly p...
