Despite increased coverage in recent years about the growth of mocktails, Dry January, and a decline in alcoholic beverage sales, it appears that alcoholic beverages are making a comeback. According to Technomic’s recent Ignite Menu report, adult beverage mentions for the Top 200 Canadian chains grew eight per cent from Q2 2025-Q2 2026. And though […]
Summer is a very busy time for restaurants as they fill their patios and indoor spaces. Wine and spirits account for a significant of restaurant revenues, and as LCBO is the primary provider for restaurant wine and spirits, operators are hoping for a swift end to the labour dispute. According to Restaurants Canada, Ontario’s bars […]
By Katie Belflower How are cocktails faring, as inflation continues, and what trends are hitting menus this year? Although alcoholic beverage item counts are still not back to pre-pandemic levels, with an 8.3 per cent decline on menus since Q1 of 2020, mentions are up 5.2 per cent on menus in the past year, revealing […]
By Sylvia Tomczak Temperamental, inconsistent, and wild. It isn’t surprising that with descriptions like these, natural wine has managed to captivate a whole new (and youthful) audience of drinkers. Bursting through every mainstream media outlet at the moment, these sediment-sprinkled bottles of raw wines are often found on the shelves of funky, niche bottle shops […]
A new program from Niagara College’s Canadian Food and Wine Institute is offering a new first-of-its-kind Beverage Business Management graduate course. The Beverage Business Management program, launching in September 2021, will be a unique one-year graduate certificate course that will be the first of its kind in Canada. The college already offers a Wine Business […]
New trends emerged across almost every industry in 2020 as consumers and businesses adjusted to the realities of a global pandemic. Drink trends within the beverage alcohol industry were no exception. Just like in fashion, drink trends regularly come and go as the seasons change and the calendar flips to a new year. This year, […]
Press release Taco Bell Canada has announced that beginning in June 2017, select retail locations in Canada will offer alcoholic beverage options to legally aged consumers. The move, fueled by five years of consecutive growth in which Taco Bell Canada has outpaced the quick service restaurant (QSR) industry by 28 per cent, aims to reinvent the way fans […]
