Food and beverage trends are said to start in foodservice - at high-end restaurants where the final bill for a party of six often totals more than the average family’s monthly mortgage payment.
There's no doubt
that fluid milk's image has improved
dramatically during the past decade, but it's
not only because celebrities sport milk
mustaches. A lot of it has to do with
Starbucks.
The health and wellness benefits associated with cocoa consumption
continue to make headlines in consumer press, making high-quality,
chocolate-containing foods, including dairy products such as frozen
desserts and milk, increasingly appealing to today's label-reading
consumer.
Despite a chilly economy, marketers have been scooping out sales of dairy and nondairy frozen desserts in some pretty innovative flavors. Who's ready for mac-and-cheese ice cream?