May 2012 through
May 2013 restaurant traffic was FLAT. The NPD Group's latest CREST report,
which tracks daily consumer use of commercial restaurants and non-commercial
foodservice outlets daily; found “total restaurant traffic was flat for the
year ending May 2013, compared to the same period last year. U.S. consumers
made 61 billion restaurant visits during the period, which is 1.73 billion less
than the visits volumes in year ending May 2009”
Are consumers
migrating to grocerant niche ready-2-eat and heat-N-eat food faster than even
Foodservice Solutions® bullish grocerant guru Steven Johnson has predicted? In NPD's
recently released A Look Into the Future of Foodservice report forecasts a four
percent growth in restaurant supper visits through 2022, which is less than
half a percent a year. Cleary new non-traditional points of fresh prepared food
distribution are evolving with the consumer faster than the restaurant industry
as a whole.
Competition for
share of stomach has heated up. The
grocerant niche filled with ready-2-eat and heat-N-eat fresh food continues to
attract more and more consumers. Mix and
Match meal component bundling now offered at grocery stores, convenience
stores, drug stores, liquor stores, food trucks, and mobile kiosk are garnering
top line sales and bottom line profits as they grow in numbers expanding points
of fresh food distribution around the world.
Foodservice
Solutions® specializes in outsourced business development. We can help you
identify, quantify and qualify additional food retail segment opportunities or
a brand leveraging integration strategy. Foodservice Solutions of Tacoma WA is the global leader in the Grocerant niche visit
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