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2025 F&B Trends: Newstalgia, Stealth Health, and Botanical Beverages

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Culinary and Cocktail Trend Forecasts Kimpton is returning with its annual Culinary + Cocktail Trend Forecast highlighting predictions from its global team of restaurant and beverage talent. Freeze-Dried Fruit & Veggie Powders Freeze drying fruits or vegetables enhances both flavor and texture in beverages.

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Boosting Profits One Sip at a Time: The Power of Specialty Beverages

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More specifically, a specialty beverage break. Rethinking Beverages The typical drink upsell—soft drinks and coffee or tea—has decreased over the past few years as customers increasingly eat restaurant food at home. One in four respondents order specialty beverages more than once a week. What’s on the Menu?

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Fast-Casual Academia, Climatarian Menu and Ice Auction

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JBF Food and Beverage Investment Fund for Black and Indigenous Americans. Food trucks, pop-up supper clubs, fast-casual restaurants, and brewpubs are all a part of the unique culinary fabric of this country. Cheryl Day, Baker and Author, Back in the Day Bakery, JBF Food and Beverage Industry Relief Fund Grantee.

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‘A Smaller Footprint Isn’t a Limitation – It’s an Invitation to Get Creative’

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Restaurant industry challenges are pushing operators to be more creative and efficient with many opting for more multifunctional spaces – especially in a fast-casual setting. Another specialty beverage concept we designed is a great example of how contrast can create impact.

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MRM Research Roundup: End-of-May 2021 Edition

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In addition to the emergence of indoor dining, it explores rising competition between fast food and fast casual restaurant brands with COVID restrictions loosening. “The data strongly signals long wait times are a vulnerability for fast food restaurants as they compete for customers. . Fast food reigns supreme.

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A Matcha Shortage Hits TikTok’s Favorite Brands

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They expire very fast,” she says. Matcha’s growing global popularity as a casually drunk beverage, as opposed to something ceremonial, has also “come back full circle into Japan” and driven an uptick in domestic interest, Mangan says. A novice matcha drinker, Lee travels to Japan often and always buys one or two tins.

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Global Beverage Brand Chatime Assures Quality "From Tree to Cup”

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Gen Z prefers quick service and fast casual restaurants, according to Piper Sandler’s Taking Stock with Teens semi-annual surveys and other recent research. a leading freshly brewed beverage brand with over 1,400 franchise locations worldwide, Chatime recognizes Gen Z as its fastest-growing customer base.

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