Are you Cooking Tonight No You Are

When asked What’s for dinner? The most common answer today is I’m not cooking.  Just like the old song says ‘things they are A-changing’ Well if your cooking for an at home family meal for two, three, or four, family members, chances are very good your buying several Ready-2-Eat or Heat-N-Eat fresh prepared meal components according to Steven Johnson Grocerant Guru® at Tacoma WA based Foodservice Solutions®.   

Odds are that 85% of consumers are not cooking all of there dinner but are buying at least one grocerant niche meal component that is either Ready-2-Eat or a Heat-N-Eat component. Regular readers of this blog know that grocery stores, convenience stores, and restaurants are all bundling fresh prepared meal components for the home cook.  The home cook is responding, buying individualized components, making meal assembly of fresh prepared meal components as the replacement for cooking from scratch.

Restaurants, Service Deli, and C-store foodservice aided with branded and private label food manufactures products are all vying for your dinner table. Ready-2-Eat and Heat-N-Eat foods from Swiss steak, Meatloaf, Baked Salmon, Rotisserie Chicken, Pizza and Lasagna fall fresh prepared, portioned and portable in portions for 1,2, or 5 are all available at most foodservice retail location.

Think about this, the opportunity for new start-up’s and regional manufactures to produce sustainable business built on local, fresh, and unique flavor profiles.  Legacy national brand manufactures are experiencing an increase in re-positioning, consolidation and acquisition activities.  Regional start-ups are thriving supplying local restaurants, C-stores and grocery store delis.

Consumer are responding buying meal components in new food channels, experiencing new flavor profiles all the while individualizing the family meal.  The foodservice industry is evolving with the consumer.  Those companies looking for opportunity for growth times have never been better. The consumer is dynamic not static are you keeping pace?

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: www.Linkedin.com/in/grocerant  or www.twitter.com/grocerant