In the 1970s era TV series “The Six Million Dollar Man,” the infamous narration alerts audiences that astronaut Steve Austin is barely alive following a failed test flight. In that opening, the narrator states: “We can rebuild him. We have the technology. We have the capability to build the world’s first bionic man.” Emerging from a pandemic that shackled the foodservice industry, the channel also is in a rebuilding state. With its technology and capabilities, experts suggest that the foodservice market is entering a time period that will award innovations and differentiation.
What of course instigated this predictive evolution was the COVID-19 pandemic, which caused many operators in the foodservice industry to shut down or pivot to off-premise methods in order to remain operational.