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.
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, Linkedin.com/in/grocerant or twitter.com/grocerant