In our final Monday Minute podcast of the year, Meredith and Carl discussed their forecast for 2022 based on their readings from a plethora of industry insiders and executives shaping the change ahead. Here’s their take on the changes that affect the key 10 stakeholder groups within the industry.
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Restaurant Industry Outlook For 2022: Five Trends To Watch
7 Restaurant Back-of-the-house Predictions for 2022
- Better tech integration
- Clocking enforcement
- Increased focus on wellness
- More reliance on mobile
- Training, resources, updates,
- Adoption of restaurant technologies
- A shift in staffing to meet customer demands
- Ghost Kitchens
7 Restaurant Experts Predict 2022 Trends | QSR magazine
- Tim McLaughlin (CEO and Founder of GoTab)
- Restaurants will invest in bridging e-commerce and real commerce
- Marketplaces will become expensive for consumers and operators
- Hybrid services models will become the norm
- More consumer payment method turf wars|
- Breakfast becomes even more essential
2022 Predictions For The Restaurant Industry Include Sustained Off-Premise Business, Increased Menu Innovation
- DTC to continue to outpace all other distribution channels
- Everyone seems to be taking part in this phenomenon, even farmers! 73% of consumers recently bought groceries online.
Biggest Dining Trends off 2022, According to Chefs | Food & Wine
- Restaurants will be open fewer days of the week
-Menu prices will continue to rise
- As Menu's continue to shrink
- Restaurant operators will diversify their business models
- Tips will be pooled
- Cancellation policies will be stricter
- Hyper local goes more hyper local
- Cody Cheetham, executive chef of Tavernetta in Denver says "Supporting the local food movement will not only be a trend, but a necessity due to the disruption of the supply chain."
- More chef collabs
- Local Food delivery services
- High end Fine dining is back
- Food will be personal and unapologetic
- Comfort food is sticking around
- Live-fire cooking will get even hotter (open fire cooking)
- Alcohol free cocktails will keep booming as will fermented drinks
- Outdoor dining here to stay
- Seeds will be used more and more to replaces nuts.
- Potato Milk is coming
Predictions For The Food & Beverage Industry For 2022 And Beyond
Food and restaurant trends for 2022 include robots, sustainability | SmartBrief
- Robots in restaurants
- Streamlined menus
- Booze free beverages
- Plant based foods and sustainable packaging
- Heritage cooking - Baum & Whiteman as a top trend. Otherwise known as ancestral eats. Searches on Filipino authentic recipes are up 35%. South African up 150%.
What to expect from emerging restaurant concepts in 2022 | Nation's Restaurant News
- Smaller eating spaces designed with style
- Robots are coming - on the streets (CoCo, nuro, Fly )
- Cuisine Variety
- Social media apps are blending
- Increase in digital channels
- Improvements in packaging
- Restaurant model changing
- Drop in high-end dining
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