Coffee and Tea Foodservice Trends in the U.S.
Report description
Coffee and Tea Foodservice Trends in the U.S. provides industry participants with essential guidance on trends including menu pricing and discounting; coffee commodity pricing trends; promotional activity & strategy; flavor innovation; coffee and tea foodservice health trends; and retail coffee and tea brands used in foodservice.
Coffee and tea remains a key foodservice industry growth driver, buoyed by aggressive menu innovation and platform expansion, a strong foothold in the breakfast daypart, consumer lifestyle needs, and some of the lowest price points in an industry battling a down economy.
Led by Starbucks and Dunkin' Donuts, coffee and tea players continue to outperform restaurant industry growth, with revenue growth extending across restaurant segments. Coffee and Tea Foodservice Trends in the U.S. tracks coffee and tea growth not only among specialists but among restaurant brands pursuing incremental profits through improvements in coffee and tea quality and variety.
This report will help industry participants:
Coffee and tea remains a key foodservice industry growth driver, buoyed by aggressive menu innovation and platform expansion, a strong foothold in the breakfast daypart, consumer lifestyle needs, and some of the lowest price points in an industry battling a down economy.
Led by Starbucks and Dunkin' Donuts, coffee and tea players continue to outperform restaurant industry growth, with revenue growth extending across restaurant segments. Coffee and Tea Foodservice Trends in the U.S. tracks coffee and tea growth not only among specialists but among restaurant brands pursuing incremental profits through improvements in coffee and tea quality and variety.
This report will help industry participants:
- Stay on trend, with menu analysis that includes trending of coffee & tea varieties, flavors and types by restaurant segment.
- Learn from innovation and category leaders via coffee and tea foodservice innovator case studies on the following brands: Argo Tea, Café Luxxe, Camille’s Sidewalk Café, Caribou, Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf, Dunkin' Donuts, Intelligensia Coffee & Tea, Java Dave’s, La Madeleine, Peet’s, Starbucks, Tea Station, Tim Hortons and Tully’s. Coverage also includes major QSR brands, such as McDonald’s, Burger King and Wendy’s.
- Gauge coffee-centric restaurants’ brand performance against their strategy decisions via trending of guest traffic, same-store sales, and guest check averages among leading brands.
- Keep ahead of consumer coffee and tea foodservice drinking trends, with analysis by flavor and type of coffee and tea, daypart usage, and penetration by segment.
- Get direction on industry revenue growth, with a foodservice market size and forecast for coffee and tea, including context for selected foodservice segments (including convenience stores, snack and beverage concepts, and fast food/QSR restaurants).
Table of contents
- Chapter 1: Executive Summary
- Scope and Methodology
- Scope of coverage
- Methodology
- Consumer survey methodology
- Market size and forecast
- Consumer restaurant spend trending
- Menu item trend analysis
- Other sources
- Restaurant categories
- Limited-service restaurant definitions
- Full-service restaurant definitions
- Other definitions
- Market size and forecast
- Share of Stomach: Coffee and Tea Foodservice Sales Analysis
- Coffee and Tea Foodservice Macroeconomic Drivers
- Insight Capsule
- Coffee and Tea Foodservice Trends
- Insight capsule
- Coffee and Tea Foodservice Menu Trends
- Insight Capsule
- Consumer Coffee and Tea Foodservice Usage & Preferences
- Insight Capsule
- Coffee and Tea Foodservice Brand Analysis
- Chapter 2: Share of Stomach: Coffee and Tea Foodservice Sales Analysis
- Overview
- Market size and forecast summary
- Restaurant industry market and forecast
- Nonalcoholic beverage sales summary
- Graph 2-1: Restaurant & Drinking Places Sales, Non-Alcoholic Beverage Share, 2006-14
- Coffee and tea grow shares of nonalcoholic beverages sales
- Graph 2-2: Non-Alcoholic Sales at Restaurant & Drinking Places: Coffee, Tea and Other, 2006-14
- $18.7 billion in forecasted 2012 sales
- Graph 2-3: Coffee and Tea Sales at Restaurants & Drinking Places, 2006-14
- 2011 sales spike; moderated growth ahead
- Graph 2-4: Coffee and Tea Sales at Restaurants & Drinking Places, % Change, 2006-14
- Coffee to continue contributing higher dollar share
- Chapter 2: Share of Stomach: Coffee and Tea Foodservice Sales Analysis
- But siphoning at-home and office sales is central to occasion-based growth
- Graph 2-5: Coffee and Tea Sales at Restaurants & Drinking Places, Dollar Share, 2006-14
- Coffee and tea per capita and population use
- Graph 2-6: Coffee and Tea Volume, U.S. Per Capita, 2000-2009
- Graph 2-7: Coffee and Tea Volume, U.S. Population, 2000-2009
- Quarterly same-store sales comparisons, by brand and restaurant segment
- Coffee and tea per capita and population use
- Reading the graphs
- One-year and multi-year comparisons
- Performance & outlook: coffeehouses and donut shops
- Coffeehouses ride positive sales wave
- Graph 2-8: Coffeehouse and Donut Shop Restaurant Annual Same-Store Sales Index:
- 2005-10, 2006-10, 2007-10 & 2008-2010
- Coffeehouses ride positive sales wave
- Positive segment momentum through 2011
- Graph 2-9: Coffeehouse and Donut Shop Restaurant Quarterly Same-Store Sales Index:
- 2008-11, 2009-11 & 2010-11
- Performance & outlook: QSR coffee players
- Outlook
- QSR: the behemoth grows while others falter
- Graph 2-10: QSR Coffee-Centric Restaurant Annual Same-Store Sales Index:
- 2005-10, 2006-10, 2007-10 & 2008-2010
- 2008-11, 2009-11 & 2010-11
- Mixed momentum through 2011
- Graph 2-11: QSR Coffee-Centric Restaurant Quarterly Same-Store Sales Index:
- 2005-10, 2006-10, 2007-10 & 2008-2010
- Competitive capsule: Burger King
- 2005-10, 2006-10, 2007-10 & 2008-2010
- Menu initiatives
- Breakfast menu trends
- Competitive capsule: McDonald’s
- Breakfast: a quarter of sales, with unit volumes on the upswing
- Beverage sales are booming
- Coffee lays the foundation for broadening McCafé platform
- Beverage sales are booming
- Competitive capsule: Wendy’s
- Wendy’s reenters breakfast wars with premium QSR differentiation
- Redhead Roasters
- Tweaking menu strategy by moving away from extreme affordability
- Redhead Roasters
- Fast casual coffee players
- Panera Bread, Einstein Noah and Cosi
- Graph 2-12: Fast Casual Coffee-Centric Restaurant Annual Same-Store Sales Index:
- 2005-10, 2006-10, 2007-10 & 2008-2010
- Positive momentum
- Graph 2-13: Fast Casual Coffee-Centric Restaurant Quarterly Same-Store Sales Index:
- 2008-11, 2009-11 & 2010-11
- Food away from home spending share declines, but 2010 growth is stable
- Graph 2-14: Food Away from Home vs. Food at Home, 2001-2010
- Restaurant Performance Index exhibits moderate strength during 2011
- Graph 2-15: Restaurant Performance Index, 2007-2011
- Consumer spending trends
- Daypart analysis
- Hispanics driving growth in food spending
- 2008-11, 2009-11 & 2010-11
- Driving dayparts
- Table 2-1: Restaurant Share of Spend, by Daypart: Hispanic v. Non-Hispanic, 2007-10
- Spending trends by age
- Table 2-2: Restaurant Share of Spend, by Daypart, by Age, 2007-10
- Spending trends by HH income
- Spending trends by age
- Daypart trends
- Table 2-3: Restaurant Share of Spend, by Daypart, by HH Income, 2007-10
- Chapter 3: Coffee and Tea Foodservice Macroeconomic Drivers
- Overview
- Our take: muted optimism
- Economic forecast through 2014
- GDP: A long time getting back, but finally passes pre-recession levels
- Chapter 3: Coffee and Tea Foodservice Macroeconomic Drivers
- Forecast factors
- Graph 3-1: Unemployment, GDP & Inflation Forecast, 2011-2014
- Analysis: consumer confidence & foodservice
- Consumer confidence remains abysmal but is rising from bottom
- Analysis: consumer confidence & foodservice
- Present Situation Index increases business condition perceptions & job prospects brighten
- Expectations Index rises on business conditions & job prospect optimism
- Graph 3-2: Unemployment Rate, Savings Rate & Consumer Confidence, 2007-2011
- Foodservice application and analysis
- Strong correlations to LSR family, snack and beverage & high-frequency limited-service usage
- Table 3-1: Degree of Consumer Confidence, Limited-Service Restaurant Use & Usage Frequency
- Weaker correlation to full-service usage
- Analysis: employment & foodservice
- Unemployment remains high but is tapering downward
- Demographic analysis
- Unemployment remains high but is tapering downward
- Trouble areas
- Restaurant industry ramifications
- Bright spots
- Restaurant industry ramifications
- Restaurant industry ramifications
- Table 3-2: Unemployment Trends, by Demographic, October 2009 to December 2011
- Analysis: consumer spending trends
- Consumer spending ticks upward
- Analysis: consumer spending trends
- Inflation-adjusted foodservice & accommodations consumer spending up 4% since 2005
- Graph 3-3: Real Personal Consumption Expenditures by Type of Product,
- Indexes, 2007-2011
- Lower energy prices free up discretionary income for foodservice spending
- Graph 3-4: U.S. Regular Gasoline Prices, 2007-2011
- Analysis: coffee and tea price outlook
- Commodity coffee prices coming back down to earth?
- Graph 3-5: Consumer Debt Ratios: 2007-2011
- In face of rising coffee commodity prices, tea remains stable
- Analysis: coffee and tea price outlook
- Tea pricing stability delivers growth potential
- Graph 3-6: Producer Price Index, Coffee and Tea, 2007-2011
- PPI industry index follows commodity trends
- Graph 3-7: Producer Price Index, Coffee and Tea Manufacturing, 2007-2011
- Translation: higher coffee and coffee drink menu prices
- Table 3-3: Average Increase in Price of Coffee and Drinks, by Beverage Type, 2007-2011
- Translation: higher coffee and coffee drink menu prices
- Retail price trends
- Graph 3-8: Consumer Price Index, Coffee and Tea, 2007-2011
- Summarized pricing analysis
- Table 3-4: Commodity and Industry PPI & CPI: Coffee & Tea Percent Change, 2007
- Coffee and tea imports: volume and value
- Summarized pricing analysis
- Increase in coffee sales highly influenced by cost per ton, not volume increases
- Table 3-5: Coffee Imports, by Product Type Value, 2006-2010
- Table 3-6: Coffee Imports, by Product Type Volume, 2006-2010
- Table 3-7: Coffee Imports, U.S. Dollars per Ton, by Product Type, 2006-2010
- Tea import value increases, based on price and volume increases
- Table 3-8: Tea Imports, by Product Type Value, 2006-2010
- Table 3-9: T
- Table 3-6: Coffee Imports, by Product Type Volume, 2006-2010
Related research categories
By sector: Trends, Coffee (in Hot drinks), Tea (in Hot drinks)
By market: United States (in North America)
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