Recent Restaurant Trends, Take Out:

At a wholesale food distributor like AGAR, we see a lot of trends. We serve thousands of independent restaurants, retail establishments and other food service providers so we have a pretty good pulse on what’s happening in the food business when it comes to trends. It was no surprise to us that a recent article on food trends cited that more sit-down restaurants are seeing a big increase in the amount of takeout orders.  As our main customer is that small independent restaurant or pizza shop which happens to be AGAR’s specialty, we have always seen the take out business be a big part of our customer’s business.

Many of us associate takeout food with pizza, Chinese food and other sub-type shops but more and more people in this economy are taking home an upper scale meal to have at their home. AGAR has been advising customers for some time to stock up on items such as take out plates and others things to help them boost their takeout business. In fact, many restaurants are actively marketing more takeout and delivery to keep profits coming in. You can read the full article published by Reuters here.

 http://www.reuters.com/article/smallBusinessNews/idUSTRE56035E20090702