Two Minute Meals

It seems today that more and more consumers are seeking healthy alternatives that also respect the environment when it comes to choosing what’s for dinner.  However, Steven Johnson, Grocerant Guru® at Tacoma, WA based Foodservice Solutions® stated “ Our recent Grocerant ScoreCards continue to indicate with 74.4% of respondents say ‘time’ is top of mind when planning dinner.

Food consumers continue to be time starved and more and more grocerant niche Ready-2-Drink options are available that offer balanced and nutritionally complete meal that you can prepare in under two minutes. So, I I wanted to let you know that Huel, which is plant-based, is now the fastest growing nutrition brand in the world. Huel is a perfectly balanced and nutritionally complete meal that you can prepare in under two minutes.

I tried the recently introduced, new chocolate Ready-to-drink (RTD), delivering a delicious, complete and affordable meal in a handy bottle. Which contained all 27 essential vitamins and minerals, making it the perfect meal whether on-the-go, at home, in school or at the office or at least that’s what they said.

So, what did I think?  I liked it. It was full-flavored, a larger portion, and yes it held me from lunch to dinner.  I had two millennials try some for breakfast one said it was ‘better-than-nothing even pretty good’ the other said it was more than enough for breakfast and could ‘eat breakfast’ while driving to work.

Huel is big all around the world and has sold over 50 million meals across 80 countries. Huel sells a wide variety of Ready-to-drink meals and powders (including gluten-free options), making nutrition fast, easy and affordable. My friends grocerant niche Ready-2-Drink meals are here and growing a larger Share of Stomach.     Here are some key features of Huel Ready-2-Drink meals that include:

1. It’s Easy: Huel is a perfectly balanced and nutritionally complete meal that you can prepare in under one minute
2. Nutritionally Complete: Huel Powder is a nutritionally complete food that is high in protein and fiber, low in sugar and salt, rich in phytonutrients and contains all 27 essential vitamins and minerals
3. Plant-based and Lactose/Soy/GMO-Free: It contains no lactose or any animal products, no soy and no GMO
4. Affordable: Huel starts at just $2.35 for a 400-calorie nutritionally complete meal and bulk and subscription discounts can be enjoyed by anyone for as low as $1.95 per meal
5. Huel is Food: Huel is far superior nutrition to most conventional diets. Huel can replace any meal or even as a between-meal snack. In this way it can be an add-on improvement to your diet to ensure you’re giving your body what it needs.
6. Zero food waste: Because you only use the Huel that you need to consume, and because Huel powder has a 1-year shelf life, Huel produces zero food waste
7. High manufacturing standards: Huel’s facilities and equipment are held to the highest safety standards and regulations
8. Vegan/environmentally friendly: Being vegan and producing zero food waste means Huel has much less of an environmental impact on the planet than many other food products

Do you sell a meal that can be prepared in two minutes?   Foodservice Solutions® specializes in outsourced business development. We can help you identify, quantify and qualify additional food retail segment opportunities or a new menu product segment and brand and menu integration strategy.  Foodservice Solutions® of Tacoma WA is the global leader in the Grocerant niche visit Facebook.com/Steven Johnson, www.Linkedin.com/in/grocerant/ or www.twitter.com/grocerant/

Dunkin’ Donuts New Electricity = Partnerships

Success does leave clues and at the beginning of this year Steven Johnson Grocerant Guru® at Tacoma, WA based Foodservice Solutions® called 2018 the year of partnerships. Chain restaurants the ilk of Dunkin’ Donuts continue to prove Johnson to be spot on as Dunkin’ expands product innovation within its relationship with Coca-Cola.

What is the key driver for foodservice moving forward?  In the minds-eye of Johnson, there is one dominate element that will power success within retail foodservice over the coming years.  Johnson calls it the new electricity that is partnerships specifically strategic partnerships.   

The new electricity must be very efficient for the supply and includes such things as fresh food, sous vide meal components, portable meals, meal kits, sustainable oils, urban farming (produce, seafood, etc.), autonomous delivery, cashier-less retail, cash-less payments, digital hand held marketing.

Retailers the ilk of Supermarkets, Restaurants, Conveniences Stores, Dollar Stores, and Department Stores that selling food and want to survive the next generation of retail must embrace the artificial intelligence revolution while simultaneously embracing portable prepared fresh food.  That will require brands to embrace new fresh food partnerships more now than ever before according to Johnson.

Dunkin’ Donuts addition of Cookies & Cream to its popular and fast-growing line of bottled, ready-to-drink iced coffee beverages produced and distributed by The Coca-Cola Company is another example of how to expand your brands reach.

Cookies & Cream is available now at grocery stores, convenience, drug store and mass retail channels, and at participating Dunkin’ Donuts restaurants throughout the U.S, Cookies & Cream joins Dunkin’s other RTD coffee flavor offerings: Original, Mocha, Espresso and French Vanilla.

Are you trapped doing what you have always done and doing it the same way?  Where is your new electricity coming from?  Interested in learning how www.FoodserviceSolutions.us 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.