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brings our readers the latest up-to-date articles by leading industry experts about product trends – what are the fastest growing product segments today and what products will deliver the best sales for refreshment service operators.
June 23rd
, 2019 issue.
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By Roger Stewart, Managing Editor
U.S. foodservice
operators have adapted their menus to reflect a more diverse population in recent years. Research on menu trends presented during the National Restaurant Show at McCormick Place indicated Asian and Middle Eastern cuisine are making significant inroads. As restaurants change their menus to reflect more diverse consumer tastes, convenience service operators have to recognize a wider range of customer preferences to win their fair share of consumer food spending.
Researchers Lizzy Freier, managing editor of menu analysis for Technomic, a foodservice researcher, and Nancy Kruse, the president of The Kruse Company, a foodservice consultancy, presented highlights from a 2018 Technomic survey and offered an analysis of ethnic trends in U.S. foodservice.
The menu samples demonstrated that Asian and Middle Eastern cuisine are on the rise in all U.S. geographic regions, not just those with large Asian and Middle Eastern populations.
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The Coca-Cola Co
. has announced its first major product launch since it acquired
Costa Coffee
earlier this year. Costa Coffee Ready-To-Drink (RTD), a chilled, canned coffee brewed with Costa Coffee beans, will include three variants – Classic Latte, Caramel Latte and Black Americano.
“Our teams at Coca-Cola and Costa Coffee have been working around-the-clock to make our shared vision of Costa Coffee ready-to-drink coffee a reality,” said Jennifer Mann, senior vice president and president of global ventures for Coca-Cola. “This demonstrates the power of our partnership. It combines the marketing expertise, global scale and distribution credentials of the Coca-Cola system with Costa Coffee’s expertise and capabilities in coffee. The result is a fantastic tasting, ready-to-drink coffee.”
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Monogram Foods has introduced its
Trail’s Best
Premium Bacon Jerky featuring fully cooked slices of real bacon in a 2.75-ounce bag. Other jerky options include beef, chicken and turkey.
Besides jerky, Monogram Foods provides prepared meats and appetizers such as beefsteak, beef stick, corn dogs, mini corndogs, hot dogs, smoked sausage and pickled sausages and eggs, potato sticks, cheese sticks, cheese curds, onion rings, jalapeno poppers, cheese poppers, cream cheese poppers, mac & cheese bites, potato skins, potato wedges, green bean fries, pickle chips and more.
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Popchips
has introduced its nutter puffs puffed snack with real peanut butter in 1-ounce bags, a non-GMO, gluten-free snack made with real peanut butter, featuring 5 grams of protein per serving, 130 calories and offering 365 days shelf life.
Popchips keeps its potatoes out of a deep fryer, unlike other chip manufacturers. Instead of deep frying, Popchips heats the potatoes in a pressurized chamber and quickly releases them. Their first breath of fresh air is a “pop.”
The unfried chips are given a dash of oleic oils, then massaged with spices and seasonings to provide flavor.
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PRODUCT SUPPLIER SPOTLIGHT
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Master Wholesale – We are one of the largest independent vending distributors in the country!
We are headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, with branch locations in Kansas City, Missouri and Dallas, Texas. We offer a full line of vending machine products which include candy, snack items, milk, juice & water, bakery items, a large variety refrigerated and frozen items and coffee just to name a few. Please visit our website
MasterWS.com
Contact us: 1-800-952-8363
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