Industry Insights A roundup of noteworthy foodservice findings for the week of Dec. 20, 2021
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Industry Insights A roundup of noteworthy foodservice findings for the week of Dec. 20, 2021
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I G N I TE C O M PAN Y
Home Chef Meal Kits
KROGER QUARTERLY SAME-STORE SALES
YEAR-OVER-YEAR CHANGE (%)
Boost Kroger Co. 19.0%
Sales 14.6%
10.9%
Same-store sales increased by 3.1% for including meal kits, heat-and-eat meals, 10.6%
The Kroger Co. during the third quarter ready-to-eat products and seasonal
ended Nov. 7, 2021. On a year-to-date meals, among others.
basis, the retail giant’s same-store
The Kroger Co. is one of the world’s
sales have slipped by 1.0% in 2021,
largest food retailers, operating more
after jumping by 15.3% during the same
than 2,700 total supermarkets and
period of 2020. 3.1%
multidepartment stores.
Home Chef, a meal solutions brand
offered in Kroger stores, has been a
growth driver for the company, and
recently surpassed $1 billion in -0.6%
annualized sales. Kroger Co. acquired
the company in 2018 to diversify its in-
store selections. -4.1%
Home Chef offers more than 500
products across a variety of categories,
Q1 2020 Q2 2020 Q3 2020 Q4 2020 Q1 2021 Q2 2021 Q3 2021
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I G N I TE M E N U SEASONAL FLAVORS FINDING MOMENTUM ARE…
Operators Think
Outside the Box for
SUGAR
COOKIE
Holiday Flavors SUGAR
PLUM
Come the holiday season every year, launched sugar cookie-flavored drinks
operators regularly turn to wintertime this holiday season.
and holiday flavor favorites. This
Cookie butter lattes and other
typically means peppermint,
beverages were available at The Coffee
gingerbread, salted caramel, eggnog
Bean & Tea Leaf and Biggby Coffee,
and white mocha become
while Carvel Ice Cream used cookie COOKIE
commonplace flavors in seasonal BUTTER
butter in its desserts.
beverages, desserts and baked goods.
Spicy chocolate took the form of
This year is no exception—however,
Mexican hot chocolate-flavored ice
we’re seeing operators also turn to new
cream at Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams,
flavor inspirations for their seasonal
and spicy mochas and hot chocolates
offerings to differentiate themselves
at Caribou Coffee.
from other brands. Let’s take a look at
some holiday flavors emerging on Sugar plum flavors popped up in a
menus. baked good at Starbucks and as an ice
cream flavor at Jeni’s.
Wawa, Starbucks and Scooter’s Coffee SPICY
were among the operations that CHOCOLATE
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I G N I TE C O N S U M E R HOW APPEALING WOULD THE FOLLOWING BE AT RESTAURANTS?
Waning Appeal of
GEN ZERS MILLENNIALS
Appealing Appealing
Robots in
Top Two Two-Year Top Two Two-Year
Box* Change** Box* Change**
Robots that can take my
16% -10pp 20% -5pp
Foodservice
order
Food delivered via robot
22% -7pp 21% -6pp
to my table
Food delivered via robot
Among the two primary digitally savvy Gen Zers see a greater two-year 19% -10pp 23% -7pp
to my home
generational cohorts—which are often percentage-point decrease in this
considered tech-obsessed—the appeal appeal compared to millennials, while Food delivered via drone 23% -7pp 22% -8pp
of robots and unmanned means of millennials see a greater two-year
delivery for restaurant operations has percentage-point increase in those
diminished over time. stating robots or drones are Unappealing Unappealing
unappealing.
Compared to data culled from a 2019 Bottom Two-Year Bottom Two-Year
Technomic study, a smaller number of Two Box* Change** Two Box* Change**
Gen Zers and millennials now find the
use of robots for taking orders and Robots that can take my
delivering food appealing or very 37% -3pp 39% +3pp
order
appealing.
Food delivered via robot
36% -1pp 41% +7pp
to my table
Food delivered via robot
*Base: 469 Gen Z/millennial consumers 35% -1pp 40% +7pp
*Source: Technomic Ignite Consumer featuring Technomic August 2021 Omnibus consumer survey to my home
**Base: 900 Gen Z/millennial consumers
**Source: Technomic Ignite Consumer featuring Technomic June 2019 Foodservice Planning Program Study Food delivered via drone 33% -4pp 40% +7pp
Note: Top two box=appealing & very appealing and bottom two box=unappealing/very unappealing
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Tracking the Breakfast Boom
The health crisis may have prompted platform in the Philippines as well as in offering its morning selection all day.
some chains to cut back on breakfast Japan as part of its co-brand with First
And in Russia, TGI Fridays and Il
over the past year and a half, but the Kitchen.
Patio—two Rosinter-operated, casual-
daypart is poised for a major bounce
Burger King is promoting its new King dining chains—are now offering all-day
back in 2022.
Breakfast in the UAE, complete with breakfast menus with American diner
Consumers are settling into a less- halloumi and falafel muffin sandwiches. and Italian themes, respectively.
disruptive reality and, for many,
Texas Chicken, an international brand Throughlines include:
morning meals from a restaurant are
of Church’s Chicken, is another QSR
once again a part of the routine. • Breakfast is skewing more quick
with a new breakfast lineup at its
service
Against this backdrop, many chains are restaurants in Malaysia, with biscuit
seeing opportunity to enter the daypart sandwiches, wraps and fried chicken on • Coffee and handhelds are front and
for the first time, while others return to it the bone on offer. center
following a hiatus. • All-day platforms are back in the mix
In nearby Singapore, Jollibee has a
Here’s a rundown of who’s doing what new breakfast lineup for takeaway and Read Technomic’s global restaurant
and where: delivery, while venerable seafood trends for 2022, 2021 and 2020.
specialist Long John Silver’s is now
Wendy’s rolled out a new breakfast
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