Here are 7 key items that “bug” industry professionals when they go out to dinner.

Success does leave clues and the consumers are leaving clues at the cash register for those paying attention. The grocerant niche is booming. Ready-to-eat and ready-to-heat foods that are portable are a major contributor to that success.
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Frito-Lay: The snack giant moved one-third of its 32 plants to “zero landfill” last year — the rest will achieve that goal by the end of 2011. Who knew snack chips could be so earth-friendly?

When 4 PM rolls around most Americans start wondering what am I going to have for dinner and very, very few will even entertain the idea of cooking from scratch. Most people don’t have a clue what they want let alone what is for dinner.

It’s cold, windy, snowy for most of the United States and it’s 5 PM, dark outside, the kids are hungry and you have noting in the house to eat. Your getting in the car to head home now what do you do?

Taco Bell, which does approximately 70 percent of its business via the drive thru, is set to introduce healthier choices for customers with its new Drive-Thru Diet Menu, featuring seven Fresco-style menu offerings with nine grams or less of fat.

How often do restaurateurs build profits by substituting foods and counting on patrons’ unfamiliarity to know the difference? How many times are restaurants themselves fooled by the shipments they receive? How vulnerable are supermarkets to the crime of counterfeit foods, particularly when venturing into new categories of fresh and ethnic specialties where they are less expert?

Grocery stores and Supermarkets are aggressively cutting the price on products system wide lead by Safeway. Wal-Mart continues to streamline the distribution system taking out cost and is able to maintain a competitive pricing advantage over many most others competitors.