FACTS TO PONDER AND FORECASTS TO WATCH FOR

Compiled by Stacey Kusterbeck

BY THE NUMBERS:

15% of U.S. restaurants serve meatless burgers

$3,459: amount average U.S. household spent dining out in 2018

Consumers want . . .

• crops grown using practices that are good for soil health
• animals spending time outdoors
• farm/factory workers treated fairly 

FOOD'S PRESENT

• In home fridges, we're storing foods— especially fruit and vegetables—by color for visual appeal and to inspire healthy choices.
• We're growing "counter-to-table" food in the kitchen.

FOOD'S FUTURE

• Robot arms will help with cooking by lifting, pouring, and chopping.
•   Refrigerators will alert us to spoiled food.

SMART MARKETS

• "Time-pressed shoppers are demanding quicker and more meaningful experiences." –Phil Lempert, founder, SupermarketGuru.com
• Some supermarkets will be . . .
• stocking plant-based items that promise to improve brain and bone health
• offering customers multiyear agreements to auto-replenish groceries giving farmers in-store floor space for growing produce
• selling food produced on farms practicing regenerative agriculture (continued)