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Food Waste - Analyzing Consumer Insights, Trends and Sustainability

Publisher GlobalData
Published Jun 30, 2022
Length 32 Pages
SKU # GBDT17401681

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Food Waste - Analyzing Consumer Insights, Trends and Sustainability

Summary

This report is part of a series on key trends which are currently affecting the foodservice landscape. This report explains the various reasons why Localism is important to the consumer and how industry players can leverage it, with a view to how the trend will evolve over the next few years.

Food waste is a complex issue, affecting various stages of the food supply chain. The foodservice industry is a major contributor to global food waste meaning that there is a moral imperative to solve this issue as well as to meet consumer demand for sustainability.

Scope
  • Given the social and environmental ramifications of food waste, consumers are wanting to make more sustainable choices and feel they are doing something 'good'.
  • The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed and exacerbated inefficiencies in the supply chain.
  • In the interests of the health of their business as well as growing ESG regulatory pressure, foodservice operators will soon have to make food waste management a priority.
  • To address food waste effectively, foodservice brands are having to review the entire supply chain.
  • Businesses are finding innovative ways to tackle the issue, by leveraging culinary trends such as fermented and store cupboard ingredients, which are taking a star role in meals.
Reasons to Buy
  • Understand the challenges and opportunities for foodservice brands in order to tap into the food waste trend.
  • Gain insight into how competitors are responding to this trend.
  • Access valuable strategic take-outs to help direct future decision-making and inform new product and service development.

Table of Contents

32 Pages
    • Food waste and the supply chain
    • Key trends
    • Sustainability & Ethics in the pandemic era
    • Attitudes to waste by demographic
    • Foodservice visitation levels
    • COVID-19 impact on foodservice
    • Consumer hygiene and quality concerns
    • Consumer motivations for reducing food waste
    • Consumer sense of responsibility
    • Preventative food waste innovations
    • Repurposed food waste innovations
    • Culinary trends helping to combat food waste
    • Case Study: Silo
    • Case Study: Too Good To Go
    • Take-outs: Action Points
    • What's next: Upcoming and Existing Legislation
    • What's Next: Future Considerations
  • Appendix
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