Foodservice
What’s Really Happening With Independent Restaurants?
I’m very privileged to get to travel this great nation each week and share data and insights about food and beverage consumption trends. While it’s my job to share what I’ve learned from studying ...
Foodservice
The Growing Influence of U.S. Hispanics: Are you Ready?
If you’ve heard me speak in public then you’re well aware of how I describe change in food and beverage habits – slow like the movement of the tectonic plates, but this means you need to take many...
Foodservice
Globally Mobile
As fascinating as the foodservice business is to me, I appreciate that not much ever happens in it compared to, say, consumer electronics or gaming. In those markets there are blockbuster new prod...
Foodservice
Most Millennials are Vegetarians...Kind Of
I love reading things about the tastes of Millenials. For instance, I recently read that restaurants supposedly can really go a long way with them by offering vegetarian fare. I've been using CRES...
Foodservice
Foodservice Delivery’s One-Two Punch
There has been a sort of double arms race in delivery of late. The first arms race is built around information technology. This race has mostly been run by plucky startups. The introduction of a...
Foodservice
Predictions for the Food and Beverage Industry: Consumers Having It Their Way
You’ve probably heard me say already that food and beverage consumption patterns are slow to change, but lately I find myself eating those words (pun intended). My colleagues and I at NPD have bee...
Foodservice
From Dubai: An American Perspective on Delivery Tech
I was just at a conference in Dubai. It was intended to be a global conference and, if you looked at the attendees, it pretty much was; especially from an American point of view. The content was...
Generation Alpha Rises
I should go to more conferences. I was just at a global foodservice conference in Dubai (with a distinctly American agenda) and came across the term "Generation Alpha," which covers anyone born after...
Foodservice
A Coffee Shop Down Under Defines Authenticity
This little business, Two Penny Blue (the name refers to a stamp), is maybe my favorite business in the world. It's tucked into an arch in the old post office building in Sydney, Australia. Just t...
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