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Artisanal Topping

Pizza ingredients take a turn for the upscale

Implications - Though a growing awareness around diet has lead to a decrease in the consumption of high-calorie foods, when it comes to indulgent foods, consumers are being drawn to those with unique, artisanal ingredients. As a result, many food brands are incorporating higher-quality toppings into products like pizzas as a "guilt-free" method of attracting consumers. Giving traditionally unhealthy products an "artisanal" overhaul increases favorable perception, whilst continuing to allow consumers to indulge.
Workshop Question - How could your brand adapt your products and services to elicit a more upscale aesthetic?
Trend Themes
1. Artisanal Toppings - Consumers are drawn to indulgent foods with unique, artisanal ingredients, leading brands to incorporate higher-quality toppings into products like pizzas.
2. Personalized Artisan Pizza Joints - Fast-growing custom pizza chains, like Pieology, offer artisan quality pizza 'with no limits' and are changing how consumers think about ordering pizza.
3. Healthy Comfort Foods - As superfood recipes become more common, consumers respond positively to remixed comfort foods like grilled berry pizza or vegan avocado pizza.
Industry Implications
1. Food and Beverage - Artisanal, healthy and build-your-own pizza joints are changing the pizza industry game and are a key area for innovation, and growth.
2. Retail - Given the popularity of pizza, it could be marketed to reach a wider audience through supermarkets, delivery, and frozen food sections.
3. Restaurant and Hospitality - Incorporating unique toppings, like pickles and seasonal produce, into menu offerings can lead to differentiation and increased appeal for consumers.
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Featured Examples

Grilled Berry Pizzas
Grilled Berry Pizzas
Driscoll's Fruit-Topped Pizza Recipe is a Healthy Alternative to Classic Pies
Driscoll’s grilled berry pizza is featured on the fruit distributor’s website. The meal is a healthy alternative to classic pies like those topped with pepperoni and processed cheeses.... MORE
Avocado Toast Pizzas
Avocado Toast Pizzas
This Completely Vegan Avocado Pizza is on the Spring Menu at Kola House
While hipsters, millennials and Aussie cafe enthusiasts are obsessing over avo toast, this New York restaurant is changing the game with vegan avocado pizza. Kola House recently introduced the new... MORE
Personalized Artisan Pizza Joints
Personalized Artisan Pizza Joints
Alabama's Pieology Aims to Be a "Study in Custom Pizza"
Aiming to offer artisan quality pizza “with no limits,” Pieology is a fast-growing custom pizza chain currently boasting 92 locations across the United States. The innovative... MORE
Healthy Almond Pizzas
Healthy Almond Pizzas
Cookie and Kate's Almond and Broccolini Pizza Recipe is Nutty and Green
Perfect for vegetarians, this broccolini pizza recipe also features almonds as an unusual topping. From the food blog Cookie and Kate, the homemade broccolini almond pizza has a nutty and savory... MORE
Rainbow Veggie Pizzas
Rainbow Veggie Pizzas
This Flatbread Veggie Pizza Exhibits an Explosion of Colorful Ingredients
A meatless diet is far from drab with dishes such as this flatbread veggie pizza. Utilizing multiple fruits and vegetables, this peculiar pizza showcases a vibrant color palette. A veggie pizza... MORE
Tangy Pickle-Topped Pizzas
Tangy Pickle-Topped Pizzas
Disneyland's New Alien Pizza Planet Pizza Features Pickles on Top
Pineapple on pizza has long incited debates, but now an equally controversial pizza toppings has made its debut atop Disneyland’s Alien Pizza Planet: pickles. While the new pie may not be for... MORE
Strawberry Bacon Pizzas
Strawberry Bacon Pizzas
This Seasonal Strawberry Pizza Recipe Has Bacon and Onion as Toppings Too
This homemade strawberry pizza is also topped with bacon and caramelized onions. Created by Jessica Merchant of How Sweet It Is, the fruit-topped pizza recipe was inspired by a dish the food blogger... MORE

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