The global food service industry’s recipe for growth over the coming decade is expected to feature an increasing amount of fresh, high-quality ingredients, including fruit and vegetables.
In an age where the quality of fast food is rapidly improving and consumer demand for meals outside the home is bubbling away nicely, the fresh fruit and vegetable business could
potentially dine out on the healthy eating trend for many years to come.
With healthy options very much on the menu, fresh produce is serving up precisely the kind of additional value that consumers want nowadays when ordering food in a restaurant, eating on the go, or using one of the world’s fast-emerging delivery services… and that’s just for starters.
“Over the past few decades, we have seen a steady trend towards more frequent out-of-home eating,” the report states. “People increasingly choose to dine out or to eat on the go. In many markets, this has resulted in an equivalence in monetary terms between the value of the food consumed at home and that consumed elsewhere.”
Hungry for more? You can read all about trends in food service and how these are reshaping the fresh produce supply chain by reading Part 4 of Disruption in Fruit & Vegetable Distribution.
Part 1 – The fruit and veg market is set to double in size
Part 2 – Is this the end of ‘retailer vs supplier’?
Part 3 - A fork in the retail road for fresh produce companies?
Part 4 - From fast food to fresh feasts
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