Convenience Stores, Dollar Stores,
Service Deli’s, Coffee Drive-Thru’s, and Restaurants all
have empowered consumers to choose them over their competitors with success in
2020, with both new CPG offerings, and fresh prepared grocerant niche food,
according to Steven
Johnson, Grocerant
Guru® at Tacoma, WA based Foodservice
Solutions®.
In new research from the team at
Foodservice Solutions found the following 10 trends are most likely to have the
greatest impact within the foodservice category 2021:
1. Sustainable Plant Based Menu &
Side Items will Highlight 2021
The shift to healthy eating continues with
breeze in like a warm wind in the summer. This year Convenience Stores, Dollar
Stores, Service Deli’s, Coffee Drive-Thru’s, and Restaurants will introduce
bold flavor, price favorable entrees and side items. Bold Flavors will the top
driver for away-from-home purchases.
2. Mix & Match Meal Bundling Customization
Dollar stores will drive down entrée
prices with a full range of mix & match affordable options slowing the
growth at Fast Food outlets and C-stores. Price with the perceived drive but range
of offerings and allow for more consumer customization.
Daypart dynamics will drive limited-time
offers (LTOs) in every sector of retail foodservice as consumers seek to eat
out once again. In 2021 the foodservice
competition (marketing messaging) will focus more on daypart than menu item.
4. McDonald’s Global Menu and
Copy-Cats
McDonald’s proven global ethnic items
such as egg rolls, empanadas and sushi are craveable and will be an example to
all brands to expand flavors and rollout existing international successful menu
items into the U.S. Adding global flavors to ubiquitous items is another way to
add a taste of the world and increase variety.
5. Branding the Impulse Menu Buy
Prepared food purchases are frequently a
planned purchase among 59% of shoppers, while
41% of shoppers said they buy prepared foods on impulse. Dinner
has the highest amount of prepared food buys with 79% of respondents making
purchases for that meal, while lunch comes in at 77% and breakfast at 62%.
6. Grocerant: Fresh Prepared
Five Gallon buckets of 21-day shelf-life
product won’t sell in the service deli. That kind of food just won’t fly in
2021, as consumers are looking for fresh food and bold flavors. Grocerant niche
mix and match bunding of baked goods, fruit, veggies, salads, and dairy items
will.
Delivery of fresh pizza for dinner will
continue to drive C-store foodservice sales.
In 2021 the bundling of Milk, Eggs, Bread, Coffee and Ice Cream will be
all it takes to garner customer from both the restaurant sector and the grocery
store sector.
8. Indulgent Snacking
Mini-meals driven by full flavored single
item the ilk of pint of rich dairy free ice cream, ¾ pound of Pulled Pork, or
single serve mac-n- cheese. For those buying dinner for one.
9. Technology
45% of all restaurant meals are eaten at
home. It’s technology via an app or online ordering and delivery that will
continue to drive top line sale and bottom-line profits in 2021.
10. Dinner Diner Drama
The drama will unfold in 2021 when we see
just who is cooking dinner. Cook from scratch or buy grocerant niche fresh prepared
food. Dinner has the highest amount of prepared food buys with 79% of
respondents making purchases for that meal, while lunch comes in at 77% and
breakfast at 62%.
Interested in learning how Foodservice Solutions FIVE P’s of Food Marketing can edify your retail food brand while creating a platform for consumer convenient meal participation, differentiation and individualization? Email us at: Steve@FoodserviceSolutions.us or visit: www.FoodserviceSolutions.us for more information.
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