date:Sep 06, 2018
ith this, convenience stores have been offering more product variety, points out Caleb Bryant, senior foodservice analyst at Chicago-based Mintel.
In particular, convenience stores are offering 32 percent more specialty coffee drinks, cappuccinos, lattes and espressos. The number of iced coffees offered more than doubled in the past year. Bryant advises that a strong coffee program can help the channel better compete with quick-service restaurants, its biggest rival. Twenty-two percent of consu