From coffee to “crafted” and floral to functional, this year’s National Restaurant Association (NRA) Show featured a wide variety of foodservice beverage trends. Of course, that’s not hard to say, considering that the May event in Chicago featured as many as 2,300 overall exhibitors.
In advance of the show, industry operators and other experts judged entries in NRA’s annual Food and Beverage Awards (FABI) program. Here are this year’s beverage award winners and product descriptions, provided by each company.