Underpinning the restaurant industry’s recovery has been significant changes in the category.

After three years of volume sales decreases, the market will see modest volume growth in 2024.

Consumers on IFT panel give views on plant-based, inflation and mental health.

The NRA’s overall industry sales projection, the Restaurant Performance Index and pent-up demand survey point to a welcome return to normalcy.

The markets may be seeing the fraying and even breakdown of the integrated global economy.

Investing in automation and using fewer copackers seen as improving operational efficiencies.

The three most obvious market movers are COVID-19 (still), war and weather.

More than half of supply chain managers surveyed do not expect supply chains to return to normal until 2024 or after.

Shippers of grain, food and other products expect to face better prospects for logistics.

Of keen interest is how pandemic-related changes to consumer habits may affect how value is defined today.