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Restaurant Category

Monday, December 14th, 2009

OVERVIEW
Six major trends over the past decade have changed the way we eat, what we eat and where we eat it. These trends are as follows:

Required Healthy Diets – Consumers are increasingly becoming more concerned with eating healthy food, not so much as by choice but out of necessity.
Food Network – The food network makes celebrity chefs out of all of us.
Gourmet Kitchens – We are no longer content with kitchen gadgets and a new cook book, they want professional kitchens with multiple ovens, oversized refrigerators and other tools of the trade.
Exotic Travel – Lower airfares, globalization, travel magazines and world travel books have all contributed to a desire for people to see the world and not just cosmopolitan cities. As people travel to places like Yerga Cheffe in Ethiopia they want to bring back authentic coffee beans to become the new trophy over the living room mantle.
Gourmet Markets – Today, Whole Foods and a host of other specialty food purveyors are located in every city of any real size. These markets provide the inspiration and a plentiful supply of ingredients to compliment virtually every type culinary adventure.
Celebrity Chefs – Finally, seemingly everyday people have become overnight celebrity chefs providing inspiration for every home chef.