- by Daniel Granderson
- December 2 2019
- fast-casual restaurants
- food and beverage
- foodservice
- restaurant
Restaurant Gift Card Use Trends Up

Growth in use of restaurant gift cards, much like growth in the use of restaurant coupons, is outperforming overall market trends, reports Packaged Facts in the recent market research study "Eating Trends: Restaurant Use."
- by [email protected]
- December 5 2014
- Cutts
- culinary trends
- food and beverage
- food trends
- street foods
- grilled foods
- international cuisine
- foodservice
- restaurant
Move over hot dogs and pretzels, the new wave of American street and grill foods reflect an international culinary experience

It wasn’t that long ago when street foods would too often bring to mind, for many American, ambivalent associations with foreign and “underdeveloped” countries, along with trepidations about cooking hygiene and food safety.
Sure, nothing could be more American than street, fair, and festival foods such as pizza, hot dogs and corn dogs, soft pretzels, ice cream and snow cones and cotton candy. And there was even occasion for more pronouncedly ethnic or regional options. Ordinarily speaking, non...
- by [email protected]
- 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...