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The Future of Autonomous Retail: Smart Stores Reshape the Intersection of Food and Convenience #Food #Restaurants #CStores #Grocery #Grocerant #foodservice grocerants.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...
The Future of Autonomous Retail: Smart Stores Reshape the Intersection of Food and Convenience
The future of retail is here, and it doesn’t have a cashier according to Steven Johnson Grocerant Guru® at Tacoma, WA based Foodservice S...
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November 14, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Starbucks: From Partner-Powered Success to Wall Street-Driven Disconnect #Restaurants #Deli #CStores #RedcupDay #Starbucks #Coffee #Grocerant #Foodservice #GrocerantGuru grocerants.blogspot.com/2025/11/star...
Starbucks: From Partner-Powered Success to Wall Street-Driven Disconnect
A Legacy Brewed on People First When Starbucks first rose from a single Seattle storefront to a global icon, its real innovation wasn’t ...
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November 13, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Consumers Tighten Food Budgets: Who Will Win the “Share of Stomach” Battle This Holiday Season?
As 2025 winds toward the holiday season, U.S. consumers are rethinking every dollar they spend on food. With grocery prices up 3.8% year-o...
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November 12, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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A Retrospective on Pizza Hut: The Rise, the Plateau and the Slow Slide #Restaurants #FoodChains #Food #Grocerant #Pizza #PizzaHut #Foodservice #Marketing #Branding #RedRoof #Beverage #CStores grocerants.blogspot.com/2025/11/a-re...
A Retrospective on Pizza Hut: The Rise, the Plateau and the Slow Slide
Founded in 1958, Pizza Hut long symbolized the rise of national pizza chains in the U.S.—but the story is not of a perpetual trajectory up...
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November 11, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Subway’s Festive Feast Collection: A Grocerant Guru® Perspective on How Subway Is Winning the Holiday Season #Restaurants #Food #Marketing #Branding #Foodservice #Takeout #Grocerant #Subway grocerants.blogspot.com/2025/11/subw...
November 10, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Mini-Meals, Snacks & Treats Millennials Love: Fresh Food Fast #Restaurants #Deli #Grocerant #CStores grocerants.blogspot.com/2025/11/mini...
Mini-Meals, Snacks & Treats Millennials Love: Fresh Food Fast
When Steven Johnson Grocerant Guru® at Tacoma, WA based Foodservice Solutions®, first wrote about how eating habits were changing, it al...
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November 9, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Packaging Power: How Innovation in Foodservice Packaging Drives Excitement, Sales, and Takeout Experiences #Food #Packaging #Takeout #FoodPackaging #Marketing #Grocerant #Restaurant grocerants.blogspot.com/2025/11/pack...
November 8, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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HDTV Syndrome & the New American Meal: How Mix & Match Fresh Meal Components Fuel Value, Comfort, and Connection #Food #Beverage #Restaurant #Grocery #CStore #Foodservice #Marketing #Bloomburg #CNBC #CNN grocerants.blogspot.com/2025/11/hdtv...
November 7, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Taco Bell Rolls Out New Mountain Dew Baja Blast Pie
Friendsgiving isn’t just a holiday, it’s a cultural loophole. A break in the calendar where creativity is encouraged, traditions get tossed and the most surprising dish takes the spotlight. That’s why...
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November 6, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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Thanksgiving VALUE Served Hot: How Hy-Vee’s $30 Meal Deal Embodies the Grocerant Advantage #HyVee #Grocery #Grocerant #Dinner #ThanksgivingDinner #Takeout #Foodservice #Restaurants grocerants.blogspot.com/2025/11/than...
November 6, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Trading Down While Dining Out: How Chili’s Redefined the “Night Out” Experience grocerants.blogspot.com/2025/11/trad...
Trading Down While Dining Out: How Chili’s Redefined the “Night Out” Experience
For much of modern dining history, “going out to eat” meant more than just having a meal — it was a cultural event according to Steven Joh...
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November 5, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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7-Eleven: The Original Food Innovation Powerhouse — How Branding Partnerships Built a Global Icon grocerants.blogspot.com/2025/11/7-el...
7-Eleven: The Original Food Innovation Powerhouse — How Branding Partnerships Built a Global Icon
Success always leaves clues. When it comes to food innovation and branded partnerships, 7-Eleven continues to offer a masterclass in how...
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November 4, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Feeding the Future: How Gen Z is Redefining Dining, Digital Loyalty, and the Grocerant Revolution #Food #Beverage #Restaurants #Grocerants #Grocery #CStores #Foodservice #Wine #Beer #Beef #Pork #pizza #Chicken #GenZ grocerants.blogspot.com/2025/11/feed...
Feeding the Future: How Gen Z is Redefining Dining, Digital Loyalty, and the Grocerant Revolution
“If you want to know where the food industry is going — just watch what Gen Z is already doing.” — Steven Johnson, Grocerant Guru®   ...
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November 3, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Blended Dining 2025: How “Eating-In While Eating-Out” Became America’s New Comfort Zone #Food #Restaurants #Grocery #CStores #Grocerant #PLMA #IFIC #IFMA #ANUGA #Speaker #Foodservice #GrocerantGuru #Dinner #Catering grocerants.blogspot.com/2025/11/blen...
Blended Dining 2025: How “Eating-In While Eating-Out” Became America’s New Comfort Zone
For over a decade, regular readers of this blog have followed our research showing that consumers love to Eat-Out while Eating-In . Back ...
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November 2, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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Is Walmart’s Pivot Toward Performance-Based Culture Enough? #Grocery #Dinner #Beef #Chicken #Produce #Food #Restaurants #Foodservice #PLMA #IFIC #IFMA #Speaker #GrocerantGuru #Beer #Walmart #Kroger grocerants.blogspot.com/2025/11/is-w...
November 1, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Why Restaurants Must Migrate to a Grocerant Template—Before It’s Too Late #Restaurants #Deli #CStore #Grocery #Grocerant #Foodservice #PLMA #WSU #UCLA #USC #UNLV #UCF #UW #IFIC #Speaker grocerants.blogspot.com/2025/10/why-...
October 31, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Time for SNAP to Evolve: Let Low-Income Americans Eat Like It’s 2025, Not 1975 #Food #FoodInsecurity #SNAP #Nutrition #FoodSales #Hunger #WIC #KidFood #Meals #Dinner #Grocery #Foodservice #Restaurants #FoodDelivery #GrocerantGuru grocerants.blogspot.com/2025/10/time...
October 30, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Eating Healthy on Halloween: Tricks, Treats & Tasty Tips #Candy #apples #Frruit #CarmalApples #BeefJerky #GrocerantGuru #Foodservice #PLMA #IFIC #TrickorTreat #FoodserviceSolutions grocerants.blogspot.com/2025/10/eati...
October 29, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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The Quiet Shift Reshaping the Restaurant Industry #Restaurants #Deli #CStores #Grocerants #Foodservice #Beverage #Water #Beer #Beef #Chicken #Pork #Coffee #Pizza #GrocerantGuru grocerants.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...
The Quiet Shift Reshaping the Restaurant Industry
The dining world is undergoing a silent but powerful transformation. Fresh-prepared, grab-and-go, mix-and-match, and ready-to-heat food fr...
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October 28, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Meal Customization: The Power of Mix & Match in the Grocerant Era #Food #Beverage #Dinner #Meals #Restaurants #CStores #Grocery #Deli #Foodservice #FrozenFood #Grocerant #GrocerantGuru grocerants.blogspot.com/2025/10/meal...
Meal Customization: The Power of Mix & Match in the Grocerant Era
The niche category of “grocerant” fresh prepared food — including ready-to-eat (R2E) and heat-n-eat (HNE) meals sold in restaurants, conve...
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October 27, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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Takeout, Drive-Thru, and the Viral Value Equation: How C-Stores and QSRs Are Outpacing Grocery in the New Meal Economy #Food #Beverage #Restaurant #Grocery #CStore #Meals #Dinner #Grocerant #Beer #Wine #GrocerantGuru grocerants.blogspot.com/2025/10/take...
October 26, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Adults Are Taking Back Halloween grocerants.blogspot.com/2025/10/c-st...
C-Store, Restaurants, Grocers How to Win “Adultoween” Consumers
Adults Are Taking Back Halloween Halloween is no longer just for kids — it’s officially become “Adultoween.” According to The Ferrero H...
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October 25, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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How Popeyes’ Cajun Turkey and Fast-Food Holiday Menus Are Redefining the Holiday Meal Market #Food #HolidayMeals #Menu #ThanksgivingDinner #FamilyFood #Catering #FoodDelivery #Grocerant #Popeyes #Restaurant #CStore #Deli grocerants.blogspot.com/2025/10/how-...
October 24, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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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-...
October 23, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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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-...
October 22, 2025 at 3:17 PM