Trends & Insights

How to Leverage Value-Oriented LTOs

Rolling out limited-time offers (LTOs) is a proven way to create buzz, attract customers, and drive profits. In today’s economic climate, focusing on value-oriented LTOs—which particularly resonate with budget-conscious consumers—can help accomplish these goals.

Drive Dining Innovation with New Protein Picks

The prospects of innovative and trendy protein products drive distributors and operators alike to reimagine dining offerings in promotable and profitable new ways.

Leverage Your Competitive Advantage with Labor-Saving Proteins

When distributors truly understand and align with the operational challenges facing their foodservice customers, together they unlock a powerful competitive advantage.

How to Craft a Sourcing and Transparency Story

Operators depend on distributors for support as they strategically strive to strengthen their brand by committing to ingredient transparency. After all, distributors have all the goods—including the information behind them.

3 Ways to Combat Inflation

While the broader economic context may suggest that inflation is decreasing, the reality for restaurant operators remains one of heightened cost-consciousness.

How to Craft & Communicate Your Ingredient Story

Ingredient transparency isn’t a fad. It’s an essential commitment that, when properly communicated, sets your restaurant apart from others.

Set Your Operation Apart with Claims That Matter

When it comes to dining out, your guest’s next meal is more than a mere transaction. It’s a connection to the palate and your operation’s standards. While craveability matters, so does adherence to health and sustainability.

All In For Halal

Inclusivity and cultural sensitivity extend beyond hiring to incircle the culinary preferences of diverse guests and their dietary requirements.

Kick Up the Comfort

Comfort food always holds a cherished spot on menus, yet an innovation refresh is necessary that integrates tradition with trend. Right now, that would include incorporating globally inspired flavors, expanding on snackability and highlighting health-forward ingredients.

Ease Culinary Healthcare Headaches

Between the widespread challenges of staff shortages, varying culinary skill sets and rising food prices, the healthcare sector could definitely use a few easy labor- and cost-saving solutions.

Power Your Menu With Chicken

How can you save time and labor while staying on trend with your menu? Leverage the versatility and popularity of chicken!

Meet the Booming Demand for Boneless Chicken

The ongoing popularity of boneless chicken calls for a constant stream of fresh menu ideas.

4 Ways To Enhance Your Healthcare Operation in 2024

In the world of healthcare, foodservice is becoming increasingly important.

Elevate Your Breakfast Menu

Did you know that breakfast is coming back in full force? Now is the time to innovate on your breakfast and brunch menu.

The Power of Poultry with a Story

Whether for its flavor, leanness or preparation versatility, poultry is the most consumed animal protein.

Labor-Saving Products are In Demand

Trend-forward timesaving proteins represent some of the newest products available to distributors and operators.

3 Ways to Control Food Costs

In the quest for foodservice profitability, operators face the persistent challenge of skyrocketing food costs.

Winterize Your Upcoming LTOs

The winter season brings a variety of opportunities for seasonal ingredients and flavors.

3 Ways to Harvest Profits in the Fall Season

The beginning of the fall season means more than pumpkin spice.

Fit Meets Comfort

Chefs agree that comfort fare still has legs. It ranks second in the top three macro trends for 2023, according to the chef survey conducted for the National Restaurant Association’s

3 Profitable Holiday Catering Best Practices

It’s time to get ready for the season’s cheer. Do you realize that on average, the holidays account for 20% of a restaurant’s annual sales

Conquer Labor Challenges With Speed-Scratch Products

Amid the ongoing labor shortage crisis, a promising solution has taken hold. Operators are taking advantage of suppliers’ value-added

Creating a Unique Dining Experience

Imagine morphing your restaurant beyond a meal stop into a hub for experiences, memory building and life sharing.

Boneless Wings: On-Trend Labor Savers

For a shareable, on-trend appetizer—and a versatile ingredient—look no further than boneless chicken wings.

Gen Alpha Begins its Influence

Generation Alpha, currently ages 0-13, will swiftly and decisively alter the food and beverage landscape.

How to Tell Your Ingredient Story

Did you know that ingredients with integrity can drive traffic and profits?

3 TIPS TO COMBAT THE LABOR SHORTAGE

You want to create a broad array of crowd-pleasing craveable fare quickly and consistently, but in today’s difficult labor market, it can be

3 Tips for Reaching Health-Conscious Consumers

At least 70% of surveyed consumers want to be healthier, and about half of them say that healthy eating is one of their top priorities.

Stand Out From the Competition With Perdue Foodservice

While operators weather the current climate of increased food costs, supply chain disruptions and labor shortages, distributors have the opportunity...

Mix it Up With LTOs

If you’re like most operators, you’ve reduced your menu to better cope with increased food costs, supply chain disruptions and labor shortages.

Connect Quality Benefits to Healthy Lifestyles

Consumers are more mindful and intentional than ever about what they put into their bodies as they try to live a healthy lifestyle.

4 Ways to Elevate Your Chicken Sandwich

Chicken sandwiches were already ubiquitous on the menu the day Popeyes launched its crispy version on Aug. 12, 2019.

3 Long-Term Healthcare Foodservice Trends

Come mealtime, the menu is increasingly important in the hospital and long-term care facility space.

3 Ways to Put a Twist on Comfort

Those time-honored familiar dishes that bring comfort in uncertain times—or any time—are always in vogue. You may have to adjust your menu and prices to relieve economic...

Strategies for Menu Optimization

Part of your balancing act as a restaurant operator is to find ways to cut costs, increase margins and sell for more money—all in the current climate of runaway inflation...

4 Ways to Help Boost Profits with Appetizers

Between increased labor costs compounded by a labor shortage—plus frightening inflation, if you’re like most operators, you’re faced with...

Spice Up Your Menu With a Street Food Adventure

Street food universally features the best, most craveable and popular fare that vendors masterfully prepare fresh in front of the masses...

The Greatest Thing with Sliced Bread

In the important world of portability, sandwiches are the quintessential ever-evolving handheld. Industry-leading menus show that everything from the flavor and menu...

Crafting Craveable Salads

Color, texture, flavor and nutrition. Salad delivers it all in spades. When you incorporate a satiating protein with it, this profit-generating meal-in-a-bowl commands attention.

The Truth About What "Veggie Fed" Really Means — And Why It Matters

When menuing poultry dishes, do you ever think about what was on the menu for that chicken or turkey?

The Power of "No”: There Are Things Your Customers Don’t Want

Recent studies around consumer behaviors and food trends have shown that consumers have become increasingly averse to menu items...