Caterlyst Insights has predicted the following for Contract Catering: • Clients continuing desire for transparency when it comes to food and beverage sustainability and provenance is to drive more locally sourced products and ingredients • Increased focus on reducing carbon footprint, including reduction in food waste and single-use plastics • Accelerated use of technology, facilitating click & collect and delivery services • Personalisation of dishes, including ingredients, portion size and pack format • Focus on health continues with more choice in regard to plant based dishes on menus • Diminishing self-serve and buffet-style service, replaced by individual portion packs • Street food will not only continue to influence contract caterers own offer, but could also include collaboration with local street food traders to run pop-ups on site • Diversification of sectors - contract caterers expand their breadth to cover channels that are affected by different environmental factors. (image: pexels)