CONSUMER TREND REPORT—
Emerging Channels
Understand the opportunities and challenges shaping eatertainment, food halls and meal kits.
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Emerging foodservice channels are experiencing strong growth as consumers embrace new ways to eat and socialize. Monthly usage has jumped 6 to 9 percentage points across delivery-only brands, food halls, food trucks, meal kits and eatertainment, but affordability concerns remain a top barrier.
Discover how to capitalize on this growth with the Technomic 2026 Emerging Channels Consumer Trend Report. This study reveals consumer attitudes and preferences across key emerging channels, providing the insights you need to identify new opportunities.
Report Benefits:
- Learn how consumption frequency is climbing and what's driving increased usage
- Understand what consumers value most: convenience, quality, social atmosphere and affordability
- Examine need states and occasion dynamics across channels
- Fuel menu development by analyzing consumer preferences
Report Features:
Each PowerPoint report comes is accessible on the Technomic Ignite platform. Along with the report, you will receive a one-pager of key themes and trends, the consumer survey and full dataset, which is broken out by age, gender, region, income and more.
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