Beverages have always played a significant role in foodservice and the category continuously is evolving. Chicago-based Technomic recently released its report titled “Away-from-Home Beverage Study,” which covers how consumer demands and business conditions have shifted within the past few years.
“Beverage growth has outpaced that of foodservice within the past few years thanks to innovative options such as nitro coffee, plant-based milks and other alternative beverages entering this space,” said David Henkes, principal at Technomic, in a statement. “Although challenges like third-party delivery are encroaching on beverage occasions, the category has a lot of opportunities available through offering a wide variety of innovative beverage options to their guests.”