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Why Restaurant Customers Are Eating Lunch — and Everything Else — at Convenience Stores #CStores #Restaurants #Grocery #Grocerant grocerants.blogspot.com/2025/12/why-...
Why Restaurant Customers Are Eating Lunch — and Everything Else — at Convenience Stores
Foodservice Solutions® Grocerant Guru® Steven Johnson has been spotlighting restaurant customer migration toward grocery stores and conve...
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December 5, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Why Restaurant Customers Are Eating Lunch — and Everything Else — at Convenience Stores #CStores #Restaurants #Grocery #Grocerant grocerants.blogspot.com/2025/12/why-...
The Value of Fast-Food Gift Cards as Holiday Gifts #Restaurants #Grocerants #CStores #Deli #ChainRestaurants #FoodSales #Dinner #DriveThru #Foodservice #Takeout #GrocerantGuru grocerants.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...
The Value of Fast-Food Gift Cards as Holiday Gifts
Practical, popular, and — yes — still surprisingly strategic for brands. This holiday season, fast-food gift cards are doing double duty: ...
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December 4, 2025 at 4:09 PM
The Value of Fast-Food Gift Cards as Holiday Gifts #Restaurants #Grocerants #CStores #Deli #ChainRestaurants #FoodSales #Dinner #DriveThru #Foodservice #Takeout #GrocerantGuru grocerants.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...
Hand Held Power: How Finger-Ready Food Is Re-Shaping Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner #Grocerants #Food #FoodDelivery #Takeout #Restaurants #DriveThru #Pizza #Coffee #Burgers #CStores #GrocerantGuru #Foodservice grocerants.blogspot.com/2025/12/hand...
Hand Held Power: How Finger-Ready Food Is Re-Shaping Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
At the intersection of the consumer, meal-time fragmentation, and digital engagement sits the most powerful driver of retail foodservice g...
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December 3, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Hand Held Power: How Finger-Ready Food Is Re-Shaping Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner #Grocerants #Food #FoodDelivery #Takeout #Restaurants #DriveThru #Pizza #Coffee #Burgers #CStores #GrocerantGuru #Foodservice grocerants.blogspot.com/2025/12/hand...
The Great Stay-at-Home Shift: How the New HDTV Lifestyle Is Reshaping Retail Foodservice #Food #UW #WSU #USF #SJU #UCLA #USC #UNLV #Beverage #Restaurants #Grocery #CStores #Grocerant #Beer #Wine #Chicken #Beef #Pork #Produce grocerants.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...
The Great Stay-at-Home Shift: How the New HDTV Lifestyle Is Reshaping Retail Foodservice
Retail foodservice continues to be transformed by a powerful force I first identified more than a decade ago, by Steven Johnson , Groceran...
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December 2, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Chain-Restaurant Discontinuity — a Grocerant Guru® Viewpoint #Restaurants #CStores #Deli #Grocerant grocerants.blogspot.com/2025/12/chai...
Chain-Restaurant Discontinuity — a Grocerant Guru® Viewpoint
The last two years have been a reality check for big multi-unit casual and fast-food brands. Rising costs, changing customer expectations,...
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December 1, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Chain-Restaurant Discontinuity — a Grocerant Guru® Viewpoint #Restaurants #CStores #Deli #Grocerant grocerants.blogspot.com/2025/12/chai...
When Multi-Brand Restaurant Companies Become Their Own Roadblock #ChainRestaurants #Grocerant #FoodSales #Branding #Marketing #GrocerantGuru #FoodserviceSolutions #Pizza #Coffee #Burgers grocerants.blogspot.com/2025/11/when...
When Multi-Brand Restaurant Companies Become Their Own Roadblock
This is a Grocerant Guru® Perspective on Brand Distraction, Identity Dilution & the Myth of Multi-Brand Success. For decades, multi-bran...
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November 30, 2025 at 5:18 PM
When Multi-Brand Restaurant Companies Become Their Own Roadblock #ChainRestaurants #Grocerant #FoodSales #Branding #Marketing #GrocerantGuru #FoodserviceSolutions #Pizza #Coffee #Burgers grocerants.blogspot.com/2025/11/when...
Eating for Health: A Historical Look at How America Shops, Eats, and Redefines Food Convenience grocerants.blogspot.com/2025/11/eati...
Eating for Health: A Historical Look at How America Shops, Eats, and Redefines Food Convenience
For more than a century, “eating for health” has evolved from a luxury of the elite to a mainstream expectation shaped by consumer demand,...
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November 29, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Eating for Health: A Historical Look at How America Shops, Eats, and Redefines Food Convenience grocerants.blogspot.com/2025/11/eati...
Stuck in the Middle: What the Grocery “Mushy Middle” Feels Like — A Grocerant Guru® Take #Food #Beverage #Grocery #Grocerant #Foodservice #ServiceDeli #Restaurant #CStore #GrocerantGuru grocerants.blogspot.com/2025/11/stuc...
Stuck in the Middle: What the Grocery “Mushy Middle” Feels Like — A Grocerant Guru® Take
There’s a physical sensation to being “stuck in the middle” of the grocery sector — a vibration between two magnets pulling in opposite dire...
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November 28, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Stuck in the Middle: What the Grocery “Mushy Middle” Feels Like — A Grocerant Guru® Take #Food #Beverage #Grocery #Grocerant #Foodservice #ServiceDeli #Restaurant #CStore #GrocerantGuru grocerants.blogspot.com/2025/11/stuc...
Yes, A Thanksgiving Letter to the Hearts That Feed America By The Grocerant Guru® grocerants.blogspot.com/2025/11/a-th...
A Thanksgiving Letter to the Hearts That Feed America By The Grocerant Guru®
Every Thanksgiving, the aroma of warm bread, roasted turkey, and simmering spices fills homes across America. Families gather at tables bi...
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November 28, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Yes, A Thanksgiving Letter to the Hearts That Feed America By The Grocerant Guru® grocerants.blogspot.com/2025/11/a-th...
A Thanksgiving Letter to the Hearts That Feed America By The Grocerant Guru® #Thanksgiving #Food #Beverage #SJU #USF #UCLA #USC #WSU #UCF #UW #UG #Speaker #Anuga #NRAShow2026 #IFIC #IFMA grocerants.blogspot.com/2025/11/a-th...
A Thanksgiving Letter to the Hearts That Feed America By The Grocerant Guru®
Every Thanksgiving, the aroma of warm bread, roasted turkey, and simmering spices fills homes across America. Families gather at tables bi...
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November 27, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Casey’s & Pepsi: A Classic Restaurant Playbook Move Fueling C-Store Foodservice Growth #CStores #Restaurants #FoodMarketing #Grocerant #Takeout #Foodservice #GrocerantGuru #FoodserviceSolutions #Pepsi #CaseysGeneralStore grocerants.blogspot.com/2025/11/case...
Casey’s & Pepsi: A Classic Restaurant Playbook Move Fueling C-Store Foodservice Growth
For more than five decades, Casey’s General Stores has steadily evolved from a rural convenience outlet into a national powerhouse, one tha...
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November 26, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Casey’s & Pepsi: A Classic Restaurant Playbook Move Fueling C-Store Foodservice Growth #CStores #Restaurants #FoodMarketing #Grocerant #Takeout #Foodservice #GrocerantGuru #FoodserviceSolutions #Pepsi #CaseysGeneralStore grocerants.blogspot.com/2025/11/case...
Convenience Stores Turn Restaurant Meal Deals into a Magnet for Customer Migration #Grocerant #Restaurant #CStore #Food #Takeout #Meals #Menu #FamilyDinner #Chicken #Coffee #Pizza grocerants.blogspot.com/2025/11/conv...
Convenience Stores Turn Restaurant Meal Deals into a Magnet for Customer Migration
How C-Stores Are Winning the “Restaurant Quality Ready-2-Eat” Battle . For over a decade, convenience stores have quietly reinvented thems...
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November 25, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Convenience Stores Turn Restaurant Meal Deals into a Magnet for Customer Migration #Grocerant #Restaurant #CStore #Food #Takeout #Meals #Menu #FamilyDinner #Chicken #Coffee #Pizza grocerants.blogspot.com/2025/11/conv...
“Why America’s Turning to ‘Grocerant’ Thanksgiving: When Time, Price, and Cleanup Collide” #ThanksgivingDinner #HolidayMeals #Menu #TakeAways #Takeout #Grocerant #Foodservice grocerants.blogspot.com/2025/11/why-...
“Why America’s Turning to ‘Grocerant’ Thanksgiving: When Time, Price, and Cleanup Collide”
A Data-Driven Holiday Report from the Grocerant Guru® Every year more consumers migrate toward the Grocerant —that powerful intersection...
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November 24, 2025 at 8:33 PM
“Why America’s Turning to ‘Grocerant’ Thanksgiving: When Time, Price, and Cleanup Collide” #ThanksgivingDinner #HolidayMeals #Menu #TakeAways #Takeout #Grocerant #Foodservice grocerants.blogspot.com/2025/11/why-...
From Grocery Shopping to Meal Component Shopping: How Technology Is Rewriting a Century of Food Retail #Grocery #CStores #Restaurants #Meals #Dinner #Grocerant #Foodservice #GrocerantGuru grocerants.blogspot.com/2025/11/from...
From Grocery Shopping to Meal Component Shopping: How Technology Is Rewriting a Century of Food Retail
For more than 110 years, American grocery shopping has evolved in step with consumer lifestyles—and today, technology is accelerating that...
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November 24, 2025 at 5:41 PM
From Grocery Shopping to Meal Component Shopping: How Technology Is Rewriting a Century of Food Retail #Grocery #CStores #Restaurants #Meals #Dinner #Grocerant #Foodservice #GrocerantGuru grocerants.blogspot.com/2025/11/from...
Chicken Wars 3.0: Why Every Brand Is Elevating Chicken—And How Popeyes Is Protecting Its Crown #restaurants #Grocerant #Chicken #GrocerantGuru #Takeout #Foodservice #DriveThru #KFC #Churchs grocerants.blogspot.com/2025/11/chic...
Chicken Wars 3.0: Why Every Brand Is Elevating Chicken—And How Popeyes Is Protecting Its Crown
The competition inside the chicken category has never been hotter. From grocery deli counters to C-stores, from QSR drive-thru’s to app-on...
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November 23, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Chicken Wars 3.0: Why Every Brand Is Elevating Chicken—And How Popeyes Is Protecting Its Crown #restaurants #Grocerant #Chicken #GrocerantGuru #Takeout #Foodservice #DriveThru #KFC #Churchs grocerants.blogspot.com/2025/11/chic...
AI-Empowered Kiosks: The New Brand Builders at the Crossroads of Restaurants, C-Stores, Grocery & Consumers grocerants.blogspot.com/2025/11/ai-e...
AI-Empowered Kiosks: The New Brand Builders at the Crossroads of Restaurants, C-Stores, Grocery & Consumers
Self-service has evolved from convenience to core consumer expectation , according to Steven Johnson Grocerant Guru® at Tacoma, WA based...
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November 22, 2025 at 4:52 PM
AI-Empowered Kiosks: The New Brand Builders at the Crossroads of Restaurants, C-Stores, Grocery & Consumers grocerants.blogspot.com/2025/11/ai-e...
Thanksgiving 2025: The Holiday Where Tradition Meets a Plant-Powered Future #Food #Beverage #Dinner #ThanksgivingDinner #Vegan #PlantBaseFood #Meals #Menu #Restaurants #CStores #Grocerant #Deli grocerants.blogspot.com/2025/11/than...
Thanksgiving 2025: The Holiday Where Tradition Meets a Plant-Powered Future
As Thanksgiving approaches, America’s holiday table is undergoing its biggest transformation in decades—and the shift is being driven not ...
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November 21, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Thanksgiving 2025: The Holiday Where Tradition Meets a Plant-Powered Future #Food #Beverage #Dinner #ThanksgivingDinner #Vegan #PlantBaseFood #Meals #Menu #Restaurants #CStores #Grocerant #Deli grocerants.blogspot.com/2025/11/than...
Luckin Coffee’s Potential Nasdaq Return Highlights Global Coffee Shake-Up as Competition Intensifies for Starbucks from All Sides #Restaurants #Franchisee #Coffee #CStores #Deli #Grocerant #LuckinCoffee grocerants.blogspot.com/2025/11/luck...
Luckin Coffee’s Potential Nasdaq Return Highlights Global Coffee Shake-Up as Competition Intensifies for Starbucks from All Sides
Luckin Coffee — now the largest coffee chain in China — is preparing for a potential return to the Nasdaq, signaling not just a financia...
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November 20, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Luckin Coffee’s Potential Nasdaq Return Highlights Global Coffee Shake-Up as Competition Intensifies for Starbucks from All Sides #Restaurants #Franchisee #Coffee #CStores #Deli #Grocerant #LuckinCoffee grocerants.blogspot.com/2025/11/luck...
Applebee’s: 15 Years of Reinvention Through Customer Focus, Value, and Interactive Food Experiences grocerants.blogspot.com/2025/11/appl...
Applebee’s: 15 Years of Reinvention Through Customer Focus, Value, and Interactive Food Experiences
For more than fifteen years, Applebee’s has been quietly—and steadily—rewriting the rules of casual dining. Long before its recent two-qu...
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November 19, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Applebee’s: 15 Years of Reinvention Through Customer Focus, Value, and Interactive Food Experiences grocerants.blogspot.com/2025/11/appl...
Torchy’s Tacos Serves Up Holiday Hero Status with Grocerant-Ready Solutions, Damn Good Deals, and a Year of Queso #Restaurants #Grocerant #foodsales #Marketing #GrocerantGuru #FoodserviceSolutions #Torchystacos grocerants.blogspot.com/2025/11/torc...
Torchy’s Tacos Serves Up Holiday Hero Status with Grocerant-Ready Solutions, Damn Good Deals, and a Year of Queso
This holiday season, Torchy’s Tacos isn’t just serving tacos— they’re serving up stress-free convenience , experiential value, and grocer...
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November 18, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Torchy’s Tacos Serves Up Holiday Hero Status with Grocerant-Ready Solutions, Damn Good Deals, and a Year of Queso #Restaurants #Grocerant #foodsales #Marketing #GrocerantGuru #FoodserviceSolutions #Torchystacos grocerants.blogspot.com/2025/11/torc...
Kroger’s Bulk Blind Spot: Why Overpricing and Outdated Thinking Are Driving Shoppers Away #Food #Beverage #Grocery #Grocerant #Foodservice #GrocerantGuru #Restaurant #Speaker #CStore grocerants.blogspot.com/2025/11/krog...
Kroger’s Bulk Blind Spot: Why Overpricing and Outdated Thinking Are Driving Shoppers Away
Steven Johnson Grocerant Guru® at Tacoma, WA based Foodservice Solutions® has plenty of opinions, this article is one of them! When 62...
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November 17, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Kroger’s Bulk Blind Spot: Why Overpricing and Outdated Thinking Are Driving Shoppers Away #Food #Beverage #Grocery #Grocerant #Foodservice #GrocerantGuru #Restaurant #Speaker #CStore grocerants.blogspot.com/2025/11/krog...
From Me to We: How Starbucks’ Sustainability Journey Lost Its Buzz—and How It Can Regain It #Food #Starbucks #Coffee #Restaurants #Grocerant #Foodservice #GrocerantGuru #FoodserviceSolutions grocerants.blogspot.com/2025/11/from...
November 16, 2025 at 12:22 PM
From Me to We: How Starbucks’ Sustainability Journey Lost Its Buzz—and How It Can Regain It #Food #Starbucks #Coffee #Restaurants #Grocerant #Foodservice #GrocerantGuru #FoodserviceSolutions grocerants.blogspot.com/2025/11/from...
Wendy’s: When “Fresh” Isn’t Enough — Why Yesterday’s Fast-Food Model Is Cracking #Restaurants #FastFood #Cstores #Deli #Wendys #BurgerKing #McDonalds #Grocerant #foodservice #GrocerantGuru #Marketing grocerants.blogspot.com/2025/11/wend...
Wendy’s: When “Fresh” Isn’t Enough — Why Yesterday’s Fast-Food Model Is Cracking
Wendy’s was once the chain that made “fresh, never frozen” a national rallying cry. Today, the brand that gave us square burgers and sass...
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November 15, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Wendy’s: When “Fresh” Isn’t Enough — Why Yesterday’s Fast-Food Model Is Cracking #Restaurants #FastFood #Cstores #Deli #Wendys #BurgerKing #McDonalds #Grocerant #foodservice #GrocerantGuru #Marketing grocerants.blogspot.com/2025/11/wend...
The Future of Autonomous Retail: Smart Stores Reshape the Intersection of Food and Convenience #Food #Restaurants #CStores #Grocery #Grocerant #foodservice grocerants.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...
The Future of Autonomous Retail: Smart Stores Reshape the Intersection of Food and Convenience
The future of retail is here, and it doesn’t have a cashier according to Steven Johnson Grocerant Guru® at Tacoma, WA based Foodservice S...
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November 14, 2025 at 4:16 PM
The Future of Autonomous Retail: Smart Stores Reshape the Intersection of Food and Convenience #Food #Restaurants #CStores #Grocery #Grocerant #foodservice grocerants.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...
Starbucks: From Partner-Powered Success to Wall Street-Driven Disconnect #Restaurants #Deli #CStores #RedcupDay #Starbucks #Coffee #Grocerant #Foodservice #GrocerantGuru grocerants.blogspot.com/2025/11/star...
Starbucks: From Partner-Powered Success to Wall Street-Driven Disconnect
A Legacy Brewed on People First When Starbucks first rose from a single Seattle storefront to a global icon, its real innovation wasn’t ...
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November 13, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Starbucks: From Partner-Powered Success to Wall Street-Driven Disconnect #Restaurants #Deli #CStores #RedcupDay #Starbucks #Coffee #Grocerant #Foodservice #GrocerantGuru grocerants.blogspot.com/2025/11/star...