Retail Foodservice

The retail foodservice landscape is transforming as consumers seek healthier options, globally inspired flavors and enhanced dining experiences while maintaining strong value expectations. Discover how consumer attitudes, purchasing decisions and dining occasions have evolved across supermarkets, convenience stores and specialty retailers in the 2026 Retail Foodservice Consumer Trend Report.

Purchase this report to help guide menu development, prepared food strategies and in-store experience enhancements that align with evolving consumer expectations.

Report Benefits:

• Understand shifting value perceptions across retail foodservice segments, including how consumers balance price, convenience, quality and freshness when deciding where to purchase prepared foods.
• Explore the key drivers of retail prepared food purchases, including the role of visual appeal, in-store preparation visibility and sensory cues in driving trial and repeat visits.
• Learn about how health and wellness trends are shaping menu decisions, with insights into consumer demand for healthier options, high-protein dishes and high-fiber bowls across dayparts.
• Uncover dining format preferences, including consumer attitudes toward made-to-order meals, grab-and-go options, in-store dining experiences and delivery services.
• Identify emerging menu trends, including the importance of bowls, globally inspired flavors, breakfast sandwiches, sushi and customizable meal options in creating differentiation.

Report Features:

Each PowerPoint Report can be accessed via the Technomic Ignite online platform. Along with the report, you will receive a one-pager of key themes and trends, as well as the consumer survey and full dataset, which is broken out by age, gender, region, income and more.