Why Foodservice Retailers Must Embrace the Grocerant Era The latest NielsenIQ report confirms what   Steven Johnson the Grocerant Guru® at Tacoma, WA based Foodservice Solutions® has been signa...

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The American Restaurant “Melting Pot”: Why the Industry Must Lead on DEI to Reflect the Nation It Serves The United States has long described itself as a “Melting Pot” —a nation strengthened by immigrants, cultures, traditions, and ideas blend...

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Amazon’s Grocery Gambit: Tech, Fresh Food, and the Cost of Ignoring the Consumer Amazon’s two-decade quest to dominate grocery has become one of the most expensive and publicly scrutinized case studies in modern food reta...

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TIME Is the New Currency: Small Formats, Lower Prices, and Meal Solutions Win the Short-Trip Grocery War Inflation may have fueled traffic gains in 2025, but TIME is what will determine who wins 2026. According to Placer.ai, Trader Joe’s, A...

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Is Your Restaurant Pricing for Customers or Franchisees? When a legacy brand like KFC pilots two distinct value platforms in Cleveland and Tampa at the same time, it signals more than a tactical...

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The Share-of-Stomach Reset: Who Wins When Food Consumers Rewrite the Rules? The North American food marketplace is in the middle of a structural demand reallocation. Call it consumer discontinuity, call it channel ...

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Why Grocery Stores Still Stumble With Fresh Prepared Food — And What 2026 Trends Reveal Ready-2-Eat and Heat-N-Eat fresh prepared foods have been the single strongest growth driver across retail foodservice for nearly a decade...

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Fiber Takes Center Stage Across Food Channels in 2026 In 2026, “fiber-focused innovation” has emerged as one of the most consequential food trends shaping consumer choices and product developm...

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Event Marketing Still Matters: Why Valentine’s Day Proves Timely Food Messaging Wins In a persistently challenging macroeconomic climate, Valentine’s Day once again proves that event marketing—when done with relevance and res...

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Top 10 Superbowl Menu Items from the Grocerant Guru® 1. Buffalo Wings — The Original Game Day MVP Buffalo wings are the definitive Super Bowl staple: more than 1.3 billion wings are consume...

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Flowers and fresh food - so very grateful for both.
What are you grateful for today?

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How Meal-Time Flexibility Is Redefining Retail Food in 2026 #UCLA #UCF #SJU #USF #WSU #UW #Food #Marketing #Grocerant #Foodservice #Retail #FastFood #FreshFoods grocerants.blogspot.com/2026/01/how-...

International Restaurant Chains Invading North America, Why Global Food Brands Like Jollibee Are Winning While U.S. Chains Stall on Innovation Why Global Food Brands Like Jollibee Are Winning While U.S. Chains Stall on Innovation By the Grocerant Guru® For the better part of...

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7-Eleven: The Quiet Global Fresh-Food Powerhouse Reshaping Convenience Retail #Grocerant #CStore #Restaurant #Milk #Pizza #Produce #Fruit #Takeout #Meals #FastFood #FreshFoods #GrocerantGuru #Digital grocerants.blogspot.com/2025/12/7-el...

11.3.25 Finished making applesauce with fresh apples from @kiyokawafamilyorchards
We always look forward to driving out there every autumn. This year we thought we'd try a jonagold and braeburn apple combination and it's absolutely yummy!!!💖🍎💖🍎💖

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New West Farmers Lots of great vendors as NEXT Week is the LAST market day!
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How Grocery Stores, C-Stores, and Restaurants Can Win the Holiday Meal War #Food #Beverage #Grocerant #FreshFoods #FastFood #Dinner #snacks #Meals #Dinner #GrocerantGuru #Pizza #Coffee grocerants.blogspot.com/2025/10/how-...

Gen Z and Millennials Redefine “What’s for Dinner” #Restaurants #ConvenienceStoers #Grocery #Meals #Grocerant #Dinner #Foodservice #FoodDelivery #FreshFoods #GrocerantGuru #PLMA #IFIC #IFMA grocerants.blogspot.com/2025/10/gen-...

Re-Craving Domino’s: How the Pizza Giant Rewrote Its Own Recipe for Relevance #Dominos #Pizza #FoodMarketing #Branding, #FastFood #FreshFoods #Takeout #FoodDelivery #Restaurants #Cstores #ServiceDeli #Grocerant #Foodservice #GrocerantGuru grocerants.blogspot.com/2025/10/re-c...

Should KFC be Spun out from Yum! Brands From a highway lunch counter to a global icon — a quick historical run Harland “Colonel” Sanders began frying chicken at a service stati...

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How restaurants should prepare for October & Halloween — food facts, fresh promos, and brand play that builds memories #Food #Marketing #FoodMarketing #FreshFoods #Fastfood #CStores #Grocerant #SJU #USF #UW #WSU #UCLA #UNLV #GrocerantGuru grocerants.blogspot.com/2025/09/how-...

Europe’s Food Safety Revolution: What It Means for U.S. Retailers #Food #Beverage #Restaurants #Grocerant #Foodservice #GrocerantGuru #FoodserviceSolutions #FreshFoods #FoodSales grocerants.blogspot.com/2025/09/euro...

Taco Bell’s $3 Nostalgia Strategy: A Market Wake-Up Call for Fresh-Fast Rivals #FoodPrice #MenuValue #FastFood #FreshFoods #Takeout #ChainRestaurants #Grocerant #Grocery #Deli #ConvenienceStores #GrocerantGuru #FoodserviceSolutions grocerants.blogspot.com/2025/09/taco...

Pizza Hut Begins to Turn the Corner: From Missed Moments to Customer Relevance In the ever-evolving foodservice landscape, few brands have weathered the highs and lows quite like Pizza Hut. Once an undisputed leader i...

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Marks & Spencer’s Food Revolution: Four Smart Moves and a Grocerant Guru® Forecast #Grocery #Takeout #Restaurants #Meals #Snacks #Dinner #Catering #Lunch #FreshFoods #GrocerantGuru grocerants.blogspot.com/2025/08/mark...

Robeks: A Grocerant Success Story in the Making #Deli #Takeaways #Takeout #Grocerant #Food #Beverage #FastFood #FreshFoods #Retail #Foodservice #GrocerantGuru grocerants.blogspot.com/2025/08/robe...

Why Americans Love McDonald’s: Food Facts, Marketing Wins, Competitor Comparisons, and Future Insights #McDonalds #FastFood #FreshFoods #ConvenienceStores #Grocery #Foodservice #Grocerant grocerants.blogspot.com/2025/08/why-...

Is Drone Food Delivery the Price of Customer Relevance? #restaurants #Grocerant #foodDelivery #FastFood #FreshFoods #Dinner #Snacks #CStore #Foodservice #meals #menu grocerants.blogspot.com/2025/08/is-d...