Issues faced in food and beverage service

1. Consumer concerns
Junk food
Nutrition

2.  Food and beverage industry faces many issues and
challenges. Here we will put limelight on issues
regarding food in service industry.
 Food is the most vital part in whole service
industry, major business of service deals with this
only.
 They are certain factors which should be
considered in industry regarding food.Various
issues have been discussed in above slides.

3.  Consumer wants choices & the food in industry
as a whole is prepared in respectively to
consumer demand.
 Consumer demand convince and are willing to
pay more for it.

4.  Certain basic concerns which now days consumers
have are-
o Hygiene
o Variety
o Taste
o Healthy food
o Fresh food
o Less time consuming
o Well served

5.  Its derisive slang for fast food, i.e little nutritional
value and often high fat, sugar, salt & calories.
 It includes snack food, hamburgers, pizza etc.
 Junk food depending on ingredients & preparation
methods.
 More highly processed item usually fall under the
junk food category.

6.  Junk food becoming a issue now days especially for
youngsters.They prefer junk food more over
nutritional food because its cheap, easily available,
on the go food.
 While on other hand people are getting concious
too for their health and they opposing junk food &
prefering organic and natural food.
 Junk food leads to obesity & several other heart
deseases, so people should eat junk food in certain
limit.

7.  There exists a complex relationship betweenrefle
food & health.
 A diet of a person reflects its health. Now days
customers focus more on healthy food rather than
just any delicious food. Foods like fruits, juices,
salads etc.
 In making more better-for-you foods that can
easily be incorporated into daily diets companies
are seeding environment in which consumers can
learn a “new normal” a new way to eat for a
lifetime.

8.  Specific food & beverage companies are also
taking individual action to address consumers
health & wellness through product, policies &
programs
 Some are reformulating products to reduce
calories, trans fats & sugar, lower cholesterol
&vitamins and preserve taste, aroma & mouth
feel

9.  Now days consumers wants variety of food in less
time & preferably it should be healthy.
 Junk food is fast but not that good for health but
it depends sometimes its good also.
 But people now days getting more conscious
regarding their health and prefer notorious food
more over junk food. it’s a healthy practice to do
so.

10.  Certain food and beverage industries finding
out the to overcome a notorious value by a
delicious way to meet consumer wants.