January 6, 2021 Technomic’s expert predictions give a glimpse of what foodservice trends operators and customers should expect heading into the new year. Read more about this post
December 18, 2020 Digitizing customer loyalty is the way forward for foodservice operations as the pandemic continues into 2021. Read more about this post
December 4, 2020 Reports from SkipTheDishes and DoorDash offer insights into 2020’s leading food delivery trends among consumers. Read more about this post
November 12, 2020 According to new research from the Canadian Centre for Food Integrity (CCFI), Canadians are optimistic about their food supply even during COVID-19. Read more about this post
November 3, 2020 In the latest edition of Trend Watch, we assess three continuing menu trends you can expect to see across Canada. Read more about this post
October 19, 2020 COVID-19 complicates things but Canada’s federal single-use plastic ban has been a long time coming and shouldn’t be too troubling for operators. Read more about this post
September 24, 2020 Since April, at the height of closures, several areas of the restaurant industry have returned closer to pre-pandemic levels over the last months. Read more about this post
September 16, 2020 From wearable tech to robot baristas, technological innovation is stirring things up in the beverages sector By Mike Kostyo New technologies have a way of seeming futuristic, even ridiculous, one day and indispensable the next. Looking back to just a decade ago, it’s hard to believe we had yet to meet Amazon’s Alexa or gotten our hands ... Read more about this post
September 15, 2020 A new nationwide survey shows that Canadians are wasting less food while COVID-19 public health measures have been in place. Love Food Hate Waste Canada, delivered by the National Zero Waste Council in conjunction with its campaign partners, worked with the Mustel Group to understand how food purchasing, storage, consumption and food waste behaviours have ... Read more about this post
August 21, 2020 By Doug Radkey Adapt & Pivot. Two words we have recently become accustomed
to. As a restaurateur, you’ve likely had to do both, to some extent, to
maintain consistent levels of sustainability or to just flat-out survive. On the consumer side, households across Canada and much of the
world have also faced an incredible amount of change in many ... Read more about this post
June 25, 2020 Harnessing the power of customer data will be imperative for the restaurant industry to rebound post-pandemic, according to Sean Keith of Eagle Eye. Read more about this post
May 22, 2020 Nearly half of respondents in a worldwide Mastercard survey reported that they have swapped their most-used payment card for one that offers contactless. Read more about this post
March 18, 2020 By Sara Burnside Menuck Amid sweeping new measures aimed at containing the COVID-19 outbreak in Canada, the foodservice industry is seeing unprecedented impacts. From Canadians being recommended to self-isolate, avoiding public spaces and gatherings of more than 50, and restaurants and bars being ordered to close dining rooms, offering delivery, takeout and drive-thru only, it’s a ... Read more about this post
February 13, 2020 By Julie Istead Thanks
to heightened attention from consumers to the quality of food, the ‘Better For
You’ dining category is growing faster than the foodservice industry can keep
up. Consumers
drive the food and beverage markets, and the demand for products starts to increase
well before they hit the mainstream. Take, for example, the current growth of
keto and the quick movement ... Read more about this post
February 3, 2020 By Asad Amin One of the biggest casualties of time-crunched contemporary life is breakfast, which has become one of the most-skipped meals in Canada. However, for the savvy foodservice operator, the first meal of the day offers fresh opportunities Modern-Day Breakfast “Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a
prince and dinner like a pauper,” or so the saying ... Read more about this post
