Foodservice Solutions® Grocerant Guru® Steven Johnson predicts that
2019 will be a record year of chain restaurant discontinuity. Specifically, with more chain restaurant closing
stores and fewer total chain restaurants open entering 2020.
Back in the day (2005) the team
at Foodservice Solutions®
released a White Paper Restaurant Consumer Discontinuity;
we noted consumer migration in food format preference from meals eaten in
restaurants to fresh prepared meals bought and eaten at home. The undercurrents of consumer migration from
eating-out to eating-In is even strong today according to Johnson.
The main drive of this change is
consumers desire to Mix and Match meal components into a perfect family
meal. How has this been tracked? Good
question. Well consumers purchased 8
billion combo meals in the year ended January 2012, down more than 12 percent
from the 9 billion sold in the same period five years earlier, and that trend
is continuing.
Regular readers of this blog know
we regularly documented that consumers like to mix and match meal components.
Mix and match meal bundling is a benchmark for success within the grocerant
niche.
Recently we documented how grocery
stores are now doing a great job at offering
‘better-for-you’ side dishes empowering consumers to buy fresh prepared
sides from the ‘service deli’ rather than at a restaurant. The intended consequence consumers are buying
more entrees as well. Consumers are
dynamic not static is your branded food solutions static or dynamic?
Meal time is now becoming a time of convenient meal participation, with differentiation and individualization for
the entire family. The ability of the retailer to empower consumer choice within a bundled
offering creates an additional platform for success.
Foodservice Solutions®
specializes in outsourced business development. We can help you identify,
quantify and qualify additional food retail segment opportunities.
Foodservice Solutions®
of Tacoma WA is the global leader in
the Grocerant niche visit Facebook.com/Steven Johnson,
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