Abstract
About this report
This report explores healthy dining trends - identifying key developments that are changing consumer habits and perceptions about health and food, and how restaurants are reacting to these needs. The report covers industry activity in and consumer attitudes and behavior towards full-service restaurants, fast casual restaurants, and fast food restaurants, as well as pizza restaurants and coffeehouses.
Throughout this report, you will find thoughtful discussion on topics that include:
- Insight on how restaurants can increase ticket sales by adding healthy items to the menu
- Discussion of the effects and opportunities due to forthcoming federal legislation regarding menu transparency
- Discussion and analysis of how the recession is negatively impacting consumers' tendencies to dine out, including ways to curtail declining guest traffic and motivate purchases
- How changes in obesity rates impacts what' s on the menu
- An in-depth look into "healthy" restaurant innovations - focus on freshness, fat, calories, allergens, salt and small bites emerge as leading trends
- Discovery of innovative ways restaurants can market health using positive messaging, freshness and affordability to encourage use
- Consideration of innovation of "unhealthy" menu items along with the realization that the majority of new menu items are the antithesis of healthy
- Weighs rationales for dining out in terms of hunger, health and satiation
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