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Essential Market Planning Tools for Foodservice Executives
What is MenuMine?
Menu Item Trends & Analysis
MenuMine is a menu information database for use by Marketing and Culinary R&D in the food industry to gain perspectives on new possibilities and gaps in their product line.
- 135k+ Unique menu items cataloged by up to 120 unique characteristics.
- Price trends going back to 1996. The MenuMine Database is unparalleled for data relevance and insight.
- Category Incidence Trending, Market Size Projections, Menu Price Trends, Chain Benchmarking Methods and multiple column Spreadsheets.
Menu Practices
How does your menu compare to the competition?
Menu Practices are PDF reports that provide menu developers with planning basics for all chains in their competitive set.
- Aggregates all competitive chains in any given segment and examines relevant menu characteristics by Menu Part, Item Class, Item Type, Cuisine of Item and Leading Flavor Enhancers by Application.
- Platform analysis provides full information on central ingredients including Meat/Proteins, Veggies, Carbs, Leaf Veggies and Breads.
Custom Q
How do operators perceive my product?
With Custom Q, foodservice manufacturers can identify brand perceptions at the operator level. Answers questions such as:
- Who is using my product? What market segments and restaurant concepts use my product?
- How is my product being used? Applications of use, reasons for use, Problems and opportunities
- Who is my competition? How does my brand/packaging compare to competition
- What is my market share? Is it growing or shrinking? Read More...
Menu Opportunity Reports
Product Development Metrics
Custom ordered, wide scope analyses of product development and menuing opportunities.
- Reports may concentrate on a particular menu part (salads or appetizers or other) or they may focus on a particular protein across all menu parts and cuisines and menu item types.
- Reports may be Broad Based reports on All Sandwiches or Micro Analyses of Deli Sandwiches or Burgers or Hot Dogs/Sausages or Meatless.
- Each report includes 20 to 30 pages including charts, statistical tables, menu prices and trends, plus in depth commentary of relevant patterns, differences and recommendations.
Ad Hoc Now
Quick Custom Reporting
Ad Hoc Now allows manufacturers and chains to order a "lay of the land" view of any targeted product, flavor or chain. Taking no more than two to three hours for MenuMine staff to prepare, Ad Hoc Now includes a presentation of 3 to 5 spreadsheets and / or charts, within a 48 hour turnaround.Recently Added Items to MenuMine Database
Chipotle Mexican Grill Omnivore (Market Test, Colorado, LTO April 09)MenuMine Trend
| Sauces and Condiments |
| Chefs owe a debt of gratitude to the thousands of Prepared Sauce and Condiment manufacturers who sell to foodservice. Ready made flavor enhancers save restaurants lots of time and they make lots of money for Sauce and Condiment purveyors. Sauces and condiments account for more than 4.5 billion pounds of product and $8.5 billion dollars in sales to foodservice distributors. | |
| Read more... |
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Each week MenuMine Trend profiles a food, ingredient or flavor found on restaurant menus.
Topics for this newsletter are wide and varied and may focus on chicken wings one month and cooking sauces the next. MenuMine Trend provides information on applications and uses of various products as well as details on what leading chains are menuing.