Consumer Trends
U.S. moms make similar restaurant decisions
A recent study by Technomic and C3 Brand Marketing finds that regardless of ethnicity, moms are the most likely members of their families to make decisions on restaurant patronage.
Leadership
Herman Cain to kick off RLC 2012
Presidential candidate Herman Cain will address his former colleagues in the restaurant business with a kick-off presentation at the 2012 Restaurant Leadership Conference, the annual top-to-top event of Restaurant Business and Monkeydish.com.
Generation Y—a.k.a.the Millennials— is discovering that wine is their beverage of choice for many occasions. Long seen as an accompaniment to dinner, young drinkers are increasingly sipping wine at everyday activities—from baseball games to concerts and beach outings—motivating brands to re-evaluate how they market their products.
While the public impression is that Americans are into super-sizing meals, research now shows that smaller portions are gaining fans. The NPD group recently compiled a list of 30 factors in an effort to determine which attributes consumers of different generations associate most with healthy eating. Among these 30, “smaller portions” continually rose to the top.
It appears that happy hour has succeeded in making not only bar patrons happy, but bar owners as well. According to a recent study of national consumer spending habits, during this difficult economic time people just want to go “where everybody knows their name.” Bars and clubs are on the rebound, making the fastest comeback over the last year.