01/06/2021
3 food trend for 2021
TREND 1 - CLIMATE FRIENDLINESS & HEALTHY FOOD
Transparency, origin and originality
These three topics and a strong consumer confidence are predicted to continue to fill more in business strategies and be particularly important topics in 2021. Guests will not only have good food anymore, but also 'proper' food from original places and well produced - with the right approaches and methods.
The consumer's growing interest in transparency requires restaurants and businesses to use storytelling about their products through positive and accurate descriptions about the products, suppliers and origin. This has become particularly important to point out clearly to consumers these days.
TREND 2 - TAKE AWAY
From a primitive to a digital order
Take away and food delivery have changed a lot in the last few years. It is not so long ago, you just had only pizza, Chinese or burger menus. You had to call and talk to someone to order food before having it delivered to your door, where you also had to explain your order and delivery details. In general, it was more confusing to order take away and you had fewer choices.
The rapid development of technology have totally turned this upside down.
Take away, a new time
Now you can practically order online in just under 1 minute and then the food is ready to be either picked up or delivered within very short time. Could it be more simple? Dominos actually tried already in 2015 that you could order a pizza just by sending a pizza emoji! Maybe a little too easy and tempting… fingers crossed they not only make the ham and pineapple pizza!
And McDonalds has even replaced a large part of its staff with electronic order boards, which make the ordering system much more efficient, error-free and less costly.
And the amount of take away apps are still increasing and it has become a big trend to order food online through apps. Not only because it is easy, but there have also been countless food options in a delicious and manageable food universe, where you can shop around and find exactly what you want to eat and have it delivered.
TREND 3 – CHILI
Dare to challenge a strong player in 2020-2021?
Spicy food is here to stay and has always been popular in most of the world and is especially beginning to trend a lot around the world right now. Several hot sauces almost gain a cult status and spicy food has now also got it's own international day "Hot and Spicy food day", which is held every year on 16th of January.
But what is the main key to spicy food? Chili! We all know the red, long and strong fruit, and yes it is a fruit. But not everyone knows about the chili universe and its many possibilities. Recent studies also show that the chili goes hand in hand with the health wave and e.g. can reduce the risk of dying from a blood clot or cardiac arrest!
Over 200 different chili varieties
There are over 200 different chilies in the world, where (if you ask the experts) each have their own difference, strength and taste. So it never gets completely boring to explore this universe. To name a few Habenero, California, Chipotle, Pasilla, New Mexico, Tien Tsin, Jalapeno, Poplano… and the world's strongest player: Carolina Reaper. You sometimes hear about people being hospitalized by having ingested this fellow, so be careful not to challenge your guests to go all-in on this one!
Chili-challenge: Dare you challenge me?
It has always been exciting to eat a chili and especially challenge others to eat a spicy chili! Chili challenges have been particularly popular in the last few years, where celebrities across the world have challenged each other to eat some of the world's hottest chilies on open screen eg. on YouTube and TV. And in Denmark Chili Klaus has in the recent years made the chili fruit particularly popular throughout Scandinavia.
