The organization revealed RCA’s new mission, enhanced vision, refreshed tagline and redesigned logo at the 2017 RCA Annual Conference & Culinology® Expo in San Juan, Puerto Rico. 

While Americans want the option of seasonal food and drink throughout the year, over three-quarters (78%) consider seasonal dishes to be a treat and more than two in five (42%) say they are willing to pay more for a seasonal dish when dining out.

Although most snack foods are eaten between meals, snack foods eaten at main meals now represent 24% of all snack food eatings, which is up from 21% five years ago, according to NPD’s continual tracking of US consumers snacking attitudes and behaviors.  

Spring Scoop features new menu design capabilities and a wide array of products that address several trends and product attributes important to millennials, including: global cuisine, sustainability and portability.

This first perspective offers recommendations on how food marketers and manufacturers should be preparing their strategies and managing the organizational change that will be required to engage those shoppers.

Consumers are interested in protein, fiber and whole grains when purchasing foods they consider to be healthy.

Technomic has identified five themes that will define consumer foodservice behavior this year, and presented them at Technomic's annual Consumer Insights Planning Program meeting, January 11-12, 2017 in Newport Beach, California. A comprehensive analysis of evolving consumer lifestyles paired with exclusive industry, menu, operator, and consumer data signals that 2017 will see an accelerated fragmentation of consumer attitudes and purchase drivers.  

Many of the year’s grocery trends have been fueled by consumers’ desire to do things quicker.

Websites like Epicurious and the Kitchn waxed poetic about the sprinkle-dusted “fairy” toast.