With rising food and beverages prices and fewer menu options being offered at hotels and resorts, today’s planners are adapting to new service trends and getting a bit more modest with their F&B budget.

While data shows the inflation rate in the U.S. eased recently – the rate in May was its lowest annual rate in more than two years — high prices for food, flights and hotels among other goods and services still pose a challenge to association meeting planners.

For the last two years, questions around the safety of food service and availability of ingredients have made F&B trickier to navigate.

Sustainability continues to be a significant worldwide issue, and though the meetings and events industry has focused on it extensively, much more work needs to be done.

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The Pandemic Has Brought About 
Many Changes in the Way Planners
Will Handle F&B…

Every year or two, new trends grab hold of the food and beverage components of meetings and events…

In the not-so-distant past, hotel cuisine easily outshined that of convention centers. But that generalization no longer holds, as convention center catering staffs have been upping their game.

There’s a myriad of things that need to be perfected for any meeting or conference, but time after time, the food and beverage offerings are one of the biggest scorecards kept at any event.

Convention center food and beverage trends are closely following those seen in restaurants and hotels across the country. They’re serving healthier foods that are creatively composed and beautifully displayed.