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Top 10 business and industry food service stories of 2022

The year’s top B&I stories tracked how the corporate dining market coped with major shifts in workplace trends.

Mike Buzalka, Executive Features Editor

November 15, 2022

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It’s clear that the corporate dining market is in the midst of a major rethink as the traditional 5-day-a-week/8-hour-a-day routine is giving way to a much more flexible—and somewhat less populated—future with the growth of flexible, hybrid and remote work schedules in many white collar industries that previously presented large, reliable customer counts to their onsite dining programs. Forward-looking companies are beginning to adapt to this new paradigm by reducing or even eliminating office space and redesigning what real estate remains to be more amenable to the socialization and collaborative work that employees coming to offices only occasionally prefer.

This emerging workplace culture presents challenges as well as opportunities for in-house dining operators as food and beverage related services are a key ingredient in attracting staff back to offices even as the number of potential customers available on any given day shrinks and the advantages that the economies of scale associated with volume feeding operations like the traditional corporate cafeteria diminish.

Here are 10 FM stories from the past year focusing on the corporate dining market…

About the Author

Mike Buzalka

Executive Features Editor, Food Management

Mike Buzalka is executive features editor for Food Management and contributing editor to Restaurant Hospitality, Supermarket News and Nation’s Restaurant News. On Food Management, Mike has lead responsibility for compiling the annual Top 50 Contract Management Companies as well as the K-12, College, Hospital and Senior Dining Power Players listings. He holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in English Literature from John Carroll University. Before joining Food Management in 1998, he served as for eight years as assistant editor and then editor of Foodservice Distributor magazine. Mike’s personal interests range from local sports such as the Cleveland Indians and Browns to classic and modern literature, history and politics.

Mike Buzalka’s areas of expertise include operations, innovation and technology topics in onsite foodservice industry markets like K-12 Schools, Higher Education, Healthcare and Business & Industry.

Mike Buzalka’s experience:

Executive Features Editor, Food Management magazine (2010-present)

Contributing Editor, Restaurant Hospitality, Supermarket News and Nation’s Restaurant News (2016-present)

Associate Editor, Food Management magazine (1998-2010)

Editor, Foodservice Distributor magazine (1997-1998)

Assistant Editor, Foodservice Distributor magazine (1989-1997)

 

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