Category: Data Insights
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There are a lot of questions around the lasting impact the pandemic will have on the way we get our food. A new report out today from Mercatus and Incisiv attempts to answer some of those questions as they pertain to the way we’ll shop for groceries. In the report, titled “eGrocery’s New Reality: The…
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Approximately 100,000, or nearly 1 in 6 restaurants, are closed either permanently or for the long term, according to new data from a National Restaurant Association survey released today. Adding to the bad news, the Association reports that 3 million restaurant workers are still out of work and projects that the industry is on track…
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What goes up must come down, especially, in this case, when people feel safe enough to go out. New survey data from Brick Meets Click/Mercatus shows that U.S. grocery delivery and pickup sales for August dropped to $5.7 billion, down from June’s record high of $7.2 billion. This pullback in online grocery isn’t a huge…
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Thanks to our connected world, people who either love or hate a product, don’t have to keep their opinions to themselves. There is no shortage of platforms to express their thoughts. This steady stream of opining is actually a source of fuel for Birdie, a company that uses AI to comb through product reviews and…
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In the food world, San Diego-based tech startup Galley Solutions is perhaps best known for its software system that uses recipe-level data to automate the restaurant back of house. But founders Benji Koltai and Ian Christopher have much bigger plans for the role they want their company to play in creating a more efficient, accurate,…
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Among the countless ways COVID is altering the meal journey is the humble menu. Gone are the germy, reusable laminated menus of the past, and while single-use paper menus are a cheap stopgap, the whole experience will move to our mobile phones. There’s a problem with ordering through mobile menus, though: they aren’t very enticing.…
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More than 80 percent of restaurant jobs, including cooking, serving and prepping, could be potentially be taken over by automation, according to restaurant consulting firm Aaron Allen & Associates. Pizza Magazine was first to report on this, writing: Aaron Allen & Associates shared a graphic proposing that 82 percent of restaurant positions could be automated.…
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U.S. grocery e-commerce sales continued to break records as they hit $7.2 billion in June, up 9 percent from May (which saw $6.6 billion in sales), according to a new Brick Meets Click/Mercatus Grocery survey announced today. The survey, conducted between June 24 – 25, also found that 45.6 million households used delivery and curbside…
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When the pandemic hit the U.S. in full force, the grocery shopping habits in our house immediately changed. Our online grocery carts were suddenly filled with salty, sugary, pre-packaged snacks: bite-sized Snickers, Mac-n-cheese in cups, Wheat Thins for days. All of these “treats” had long shelf-lives, and were easy to grab as we gobbled up…
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New data from NPD Group is a real good news/bad news situation for restaurants. The bad news: for the week ending May 24, total major restaurant chain transactions declined 18 percent compared to the same time period last year. The good news? That’s up 25 percentage points from the biggest decline in transactions during this…
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“High-tech gardening” usually brings to mind the automated indoor vertical farming devices everyone from startups to major appliance makers are pushing these days. Those are great for time-strapped folks or those who tend to just kill plants. But for people who want to keep their hands in the soil, technology in the smart garden will…
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The global pandemic and subsequent lockdowns around the country spurred another record month for online grocery shopping. According to a results from a new Brick Meets Click/Mercatus Grocery Survey released today, online grocery sales hit $6.6 billion in May, up 24 percent from April (which was a record month as well). The online survey was…
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