Packaging for Foodservice

摘要

There are more than 850,000 "retail" foodservice establishments-restaurants, schools, offices, vending machines, hospitals, sports arenas, quick-service outlets, etc.-in the United States, serving more than $1 billion worth of food daily. Away-from-home eating constitutes nearly half of the more than $800-billion retail value of all foods consumed in the U.S. today. And at the present 4% rate of growth, foodservice will represent nearly the sole source of growth in the food industry in this decade, according to "Foodservice Packaging," a new 160-page multi-client technical and marketing report available from PakIntell LLC, West Chester, Pa. (phone 610-344-7340, www.pakintell. com). Since value does not necessarily equate to volume, the quantity of food is only about 100 billion lb ensconced within 130 billion package units. The largest volume by far is refrigerated foods, followed by frozen and ambient-temperature shelf-stable foods.