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Maeve Webster

Maeve Webster has been a foodservice industry consultant for more than 17 years, running hundreds of studies focused on trend analysis, opportunity assessment, new product concept development, and consumer behavior evaluation. In 2015, Webster founded an independent consultancy, Menu Matters, which helps foodservice professionals identify, evaluate, and leverage industry trends. Readers may contact her at menumattersnow@gmail.com.

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Gen Z Appeal Scores

How Will Gen Z Consumers Affect Food?

It's too early to say—but they are different than Millennials
Maeve Webster
November 5, 2018
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After a decade or more of focusing largely on the needs, preferences, and behaviors of Millennials, the food industry is ready to focus its attention on Gen Z.
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Most Commonly Menued Terms Suggesting Authenticity

Manufacturers Explore Challenges of "Authentic" Food Tastes, Experiences

Traditional Tastes
Maeve Webster
July 20, 2018
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For the last several years, there's been a culinary shift and belief that food derived from foreign cultures should seek to be authentic or feature authentic elements.
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Pink Drink from Starbucks' 2017 "Cups of Kindness" Collection

Inspiring Food Product Development from Beyond Industry Borders

Look beyond the menu—and even outside food—for new product ideas
Maeve Webster
April 10, 2018
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For the industry to truly be innovative, and continue to be relevant well beyond the Millennial boom, insights professionals will need to look well outside of food to better anticipate consumers' changing relationship with food.
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