FMI’s new Power of Foodservice at Retail 2026 report has the numbers every supermarket retailer needs to know.

This is the eleventh year FMI has run the study with 1,480 shoppers surveyed this past July. The most important number that I keep coming back to is 29%. That’s the share of deli-prepared meals that now replace a restaurant meal, up from 12% in 2017. Almost ten years ago half of all deli and prepared food meal purchases were replacements for something the shopper would have cooked at home; today that’s down to 31%.

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