CSP Magazine | December 2012

The Foodservice Forecast

An exploration of the fuzzy, far-off future of foodservice at retail.

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The time of year has come when experts and writers begin crafting their predictions for next year’s food trends. What will be 2013’s equivalent of the cupcake craze? What’s the food truck of the future?

While such prognostications are fun, CSP wanted to burrow a little further into the fuzzy recesses of the future, where we may not quite know how consumer sentiment will manifest itself in a tangible trend, but where you might be able to start crafting your own trends based on those consumer emotions.

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