Each day iced coffee is consumed by roughly 30 million adult Americans and this once-novelty coffee beverage has seen modest growth in the past two years, now appearing on the menu in 74% of quick serve restaurants and 60% of casual dining facilities.
07-03-2014 While 2013 showed a decline in both canned soft drink and juice sales, iced tea showed the largest growth by number of servings.
06-26-2014 Not surprisingly, iced tea is ordered most often with a meal at lunch and supper across all foodservice segments (1).
06-19-2014 Regionally, the South leads the way in consumption of iced tea having more than 50% of the servings share with the West and Central regions coming in second and third at 18% and 16% respectively, and the Northeast at only 12%.
06-12-2014 Tea is the most widely consumed beverage in the world next to water. On any given day, over one half of the American population drinks tea with roughly 69 million adult Americans consuming iced tea every day.
06-05-2014 Iowa 80 Kitchen, the 300-seat full service restaurant in the Iowa 80 Truckstop in Walcott, Iowa, is celebrating 50 years in business on June 4. As part of its celebration, the restaurant is offering customers an opportunity to order from a special menu featuring food items priced as they were on opening day in 1964.
06-02-2014 Limited time offerings (LTOs) are a different kind of 鈥渇resh鈥� that are equally important in coffee.
05-22-2014 Loyalty program benefits have a high derived importance for consumers (Boston Consulting Group 2013 survey).
05-15-2014 Nearly 450 million cups of coffee are consumed in the US each day, with coffee incidences growing at both lunch and PM snack dayparts.
05-08-2014 Convenience is still one of the leading coffee purchase drivers (second only to quality), so your coffee bar must quickly and efficiently meet the needs of your customers.
05-01-2014 The January to December 2013 McLane/黑料社区Foundation Index is now out. The index found that average purchases per truckstop jumped to $16,335 per week during 2013, compared with $15,784 in 2012.
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