Top 2024 Food & Beverage Industry Trends

What’s Inside

• Trend 1: Spices as Culinary Change Agents
• Trend 2: Global Accents Shake Up Menus
• Trend 3: Plant-Based Becomes a Mainstream Choice Trend
• Trend 4: Coffee’s Cold Rush
• Trend 5: Healthful Hydration
• Trend 6: Fresh New Beverage Flavors Trend
• Trend 7: Customers Reset Mealtime Clock
• Trend 8: The Big Experience of Dining Out
• Trend 9: Tech Tools Bump Up Customer Service

What’s the biggest prediction for the foodservice industry as 2024 unfolds? Sales of food and nonalcoholic beverages are set to hit a record-high $889.7 billion.

For help navigating the coming year with dexterity, skill, business savvy, and the will to win, this exclusive, trend-spotting report is the industry’s must-read. Concise, finely tuned, and targeted to operators, it examines many of the biggest and buzziest things that are set to unfold across foodservice in the coming months. With sharp focus on food and beverage menus plus ample helpings of operational know-how, the Trend Report contains information that easily can be put into action. Here’s what to expect:

Food Trends

Trend 1: Spices as Culinary Change Agents explores delicious flavors set to invigorate foods.

Trend 2: Global Accents Shake Up Menus takes a look at third-culture cuisines, the melding of backgrounds, skills, and culinary experiences that move American cuisine forward.

Trend 3: Plant-based Becomes a Mainstream Choice gives insights into why meatless options are increasingly important in every foodservice-industry setting.

Beverage Trends

Trend 4: Coffee’s Cold Rush chills out with the hottest thing going in coffee service.

Trend 5: Healthful Hydration sheds light on nutritional awareness that drives beverage decisions.

Trend 6: Fresh New Beverage Flavors taps the latest consumer behaviors and preferences for liquid assets.

Consumer Trends

Trend 7: Customers Reset Mealtime Clocks casts a spotlight on the new restaurant realities of work-from-home schedules and the changes in dinner-hour timing.

Trend 8: The Big Experience of Dining Out pays heed to diners who look for restaurants to serve not just meals but lasting memories.

Trend 9: Tech Tools Bump Up Customer Service reveals how technology improves the guest experience while easing operations.

Start the year on a strong note with a quick download of Top 2024 Food & Beverage Industry Trends. This foodservice-industry resource is available free of charge, its content designed with operators in mind.