Tag: NPD Group
Plant-based menu items signals niche future
The Canadian foodservice market is very mature. Prior to the pandemic, approximately 40 per cent of Canadians consumed a meal, snack or beverage away...
The Lingering Pandemic and Lockdown are no Match for Consumers’ Love...
While plant-based dishes and meat alternatives continue to trend, red meat is holding its own as a mainstay protein. But that doesn’t mean things...
Challenges & Opportunities: Staffing
The Challenge
According to Restaurants Canada’s Restaurant Outlook Survey published in April 2020, an estimated 800,000 foodservice employees were either laid off or not currently...
Challenges & Opportunities: Real Estate
The Challenge
In March, the phones at Toronto-based CHI Real Estate Group, a hospitality-business broker that helps clients buy and sell restaurants and commercial properties,...
McDonald’s Canada Partners with DoorDash
TORONTO — McDonald’s Canada has announced a partnership with DoorDash to bring McDelivery to more than 1,000 restaurants across the country through the DoorDash...
Operators Need to Fight for Their Share of the Coffee Market
Coffee is one of the key segments that makes the Canadian foodservice market so unique, but it also makes it vulnerable during these unusual...
COVID-19 to Alter how Customers Interact with Foodservice
As COVID-19 spread across the country, many provinces declared a state of emergency, closing restaurants and bars in an effort to flatten the curve....
Operators Will Need to Win Back Customers Post-COVID-19
As we ended the fourth quarter of 2019, restaurant growth was slowing. Unemployment had risen, consumer sentiment had fallen and household debt was at...
From the Editor: United We Stand
With each passing day, the war against COVID-19 intensifies. The number of casualties increases, the fear intensifies and our lives change inalterably.In only a...
Grocerants Offer Elevated Food Experiences to Steal Market Share
THE CHALLENGE A decade ago, a ‘grocerant’ — a hybrid grocery/restaurant offering — was rare and the concept of grocery delivery and meal...