Foodservice Solutions® Restaurant Discontinuity Continues to Hang Around

 

Foodservice Solutions® Grocerant Guru® Steven Johnson predicts that 2024 will be a another year of chain restaurant discontinuity.  Specifically, with more legacy chain restaurant closing stores and new grocerant niche focused restaurants / eateries entering the marketplace in 2024.

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 too 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.  Foodservice Solutions® has been conducting grocerant niche score cards since 1995.

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.

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