When it comes to eating in the workplace, corporate-provided food options are somewhat of a double-edged sword. On one hand, they bring people together, build relationships, and position companies as great places to work. On the other hand, unhealthy food items take away from employee well-being, potentially increasing absences due to diet-related sickness which then in turn negatively impacts workforce productivity.
With a growing culture aimed at actively encouraging and promoting healthier lifestyle choices, wellness in the workplace is fast working its way from just a buzz topic to a required norm for current and prospective employees.
Wellbeing in the Workplace
Pete Pema at Eat Fruit explains how his business is reaping the benefits of partnering with Epicurium's best-in-class range of healthier snack options.
"We deliver fresh fruit and snacks to offices and businesses across the UK. Our customers range from major international brands to local doctor’s surgery. So it's quite varied.
Our end users purchase from us to support their employee well-being initiatives. They aim to encourage employees to ditch sugary snacks in favour of something much healthier.
Today’s workforce is more mindful towards the importance of healthier, clean eating as they fully understand the benefits it has on concentration, motivation and overall sense of well-being. Bearing this in mind, it’s time to improve the way we cater for employees' and colleagues' snacking needs".
What Pete Says About Epicurium
"The customer service is always excellent. Some customers have very specific dietary needs and the team has been able to help with this".
"The health and wellbeing trend will continue, new technology will help make dull health food a thing of the past and real competition on the taste front".
"In short, I really appreciate Epicurium. You do what you say on the tin. Deliver great snacks on time".
How have you engaged with the well-being and wellness trend?
With independent brands stealing a march on the more established brand names, we have the right balance of challenger, high growth and innovative snack brands. We can curate a healthy snack range to help you become a success, just like Pete has enjoyed working with Epicurium.
From Regulation to Innovation: Embracing HFSS Regulation Changes and the Evolution of Snacking
HFSS Regulations Changes and the Shift in Snacking Trends
As HFSS regulation changes come in to place, you need to keep monitoring snack trends closely over the year ahead, keeping health, sharing and impulse in mind.
Over the past few years, occasions for snacking have changed. Regular snacking rather than the previous standard of three meals a day is now widespread. The UK food and drink industry has seen a wave of innovation in the last few years, with the snacking sector being no exception. When it comes to UK eating habits, 'healthy eating' has been a key focus, bringing a plethora of new and innovative products to the snacking scene. 66% of snackers eat between meals at least once a day, demonstrating how ingrained snacks are in Brit's diets. Time poor modern lifestyles are one core factor fuelling our reliance on snacks.
Millennials are now coming of age and hold a very large part of the UK’s spending power. They don’t mind spending that little bit extra in store to get a product which they know is good/better for them. Many would also be willing to walk out of a store if they couldn’t find the healthy and on trend snacks which they want, rather than opting for a traditional crisp or chocolate bar. This means for many retailers who don’t have something new in store, they’re missing out on incremental sales. People are much more interested in what they put inside their bodies. Consumers in general are focused on responsibility of self, society and the planet.
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Shoppers are willing to spend that bit extra it means they’re consuming better for you replacements which make them feel good. Over the past few years we have seen the healthier snacking category move from a category that only a few upmarket retailers gave any real shelf space to a must have category that every retailer needs create space for in their stores.
We’re often told that selecting nutritious and wholesome snacks can help improve our wellbeing – but could healthier snacking options be beneficial to your profit margins too. The UK has a reputation as the largest snacking nation in Europe and, at an estimated worth of £18 billion pounds, businesses are clamouring to both satisfy the nation’s taste buds and grab a sizeable share of the healthy snack market.
What Makes a Snack On-Trend?
It’s not all about taste. Of course snacks have to taste great, but all of the senses are engaged when snacking. We eat with our eyes as well as our mouths. Eye-catching colours, engaging textures and creative packaging all contribute to a snack’s successs. In this 'Instagrammable' shareable era, it’s the most colourful, most engaging and dynamic snack that grabs our attention. Every snack should tell a story. We want to know the story behind our snacks. It’s not just eating snacks with identifiable ingredients and recognisable origins, it’s also snacks that have authenticity or a unique history. We know that consumers love nostalgia when choosing a snack, but there’s also room for 'newstalgia' and creative options that Millennials and Gen-Z will share with their peers.
Balance is the key word for successful new snacks. Consumers want to indulge, but also want healthy options. More than ever, snacking is about balancing the ‘good’ with the ‘bad.’ Looking for healthier and indulgence in the same snack is key with snackers choosing wholegrains, vegan, or paleo snacks to satisfy snack urges while supporting good intentions. The perception of the snack market is that everything is a snack these days. In our frenetic, on-the-go society, snacks can be meal solutions, balls, bites, or just about anything else in between. And it’s not just standing out in a growing array of snack options; it’s also standing out on store shelves by offering a creative solution that ticks one (or all) of the core snack trends.
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The Rise of Healthy Snacking: What Today's Trends Mean for Your Business
With the rise of healthy snacking shoppers are willing to spend that bit extra it means they’re consuming better for you replacements which make them feel good. Over the past few years we have seen the healthier snacking category move from a category that only a few upmarket retailers gave any real shelf space to a must have category that every retailer needs create space for in their stores.
Consumers have sought out functional snacks to boost their workouts or simply enhance their health, have used protein-filled snacks to satisfy hunger over long periods, have indulged in snacks as affordable treats in times of stress and have munched their way through a whole variety of options.
Post-Covid hybrid working has reopened the opportunity for impulse purchases on-the-go. The value of the crisps, snacks & popcorn category is £3.4bn. The estimated value of on-the-go snacking is worth over £2.5bn
(Kantar Panel data, 52 w/e 12.07.22).
One certainty that suppliers and retailer agree on is that healthy snacking should matter, in all its forms as it progresses in its forward march, the momentum looks set to continue.
What Today's Snacking Means for Your Business
There’s a very different game in town these days. Consumers are no longer happy simply sticking with the same tried and tested brands, it’s all about differentiation. Consumers are looking for a ‘wow’ moment, a chance to discover something different and be the first on social media with a new snack – the opportunity to influence, not just follow. Consumers' pursuit for health and wellness is impacting all aspects of life, never more than through food and drink.
There's no denying it's reshaping the world of snacking; vegan snacks have hit the big time, protein snacks are in the mainstream and natural energy drinks are in everyone's fridges - a few years ago these would have all been considered niche! Healthier snacking has a sky-high penetration, but retailers need to make space for healthier options and adventurous flavours to stay on trend.
For the Convenience Store...
with competition increasing, it’s time to think about how you can match up to against your local competition – including the major multiples and high street coffee chains. It's no surprise you'll see on-trend snack bars such as Grenade and KIND up sold alongside branded coffee machines, and alternative crisps becoming a mainstay in lunchtime meal deals.
Busy lifestyles and less structured eating patterns mean all day offerings are also playing a big part. Meal times and meal formats have blurred, whilst the Big Night In has resulted in a surge of premium impulse and sharing snacking opportunities.
The fast-paced world of snacking means it is essential to stay relevant in the market, ensuring your range is fresh, fast and healthy, as well as tasty, good value and convenient. Those retailers can meet the challenger by offering an in store experience and diversity of products and services the big boys couldn’t hope to keep up with. Challenger brands are quick to respond to and shape consumer trends and are the immediate source of providing that differentiated offering.
For the Workplace...
When it comes to eating in the workplace, organisation-provided food options are somewhat of a double-edged sword. On the one hand, they bring people together, build relationships, and position organisations as a great place to work. On the other hand, unhealthy food items can take away from employee well-being, increasing medical costs and negatively impacting workforce productivity.
Today’s workers are a savvy bunch who understand the importance of healthier snacking has on concentration, motivation and overall sense of wellbeing. It's time to improve the way you cater for your employees and colleagues.
Office workers want cool and better-for-you snacks. In the age of social media, when employees believe a snack has the kudos to be 'instagram-worthy' it'll soon spread around the office that it's the next big thing to try.
With a growing culture aimed at encouraging and promoting healthier lifestyle choices, wellness in the workplace is fast working its way from buzz topic to required norm for prospective employees. The UK has long had a reputation for spending the longest hours at work, sitting down at a computer for hours and often reaching for unhealthy quick snacks between tasks rather than having time for a fully fledged and nutritionally balanced meal. While in some organisations, healthy snacking is positioned as a major employee perk, the trend on an average is largely disappointing. Time to step things up in the workplace.
For the Coffee Shop...
Visit any café across the UK, from a counter in a leisure centre to the hipster coffee shop and they will all have one thing in common – there will never be only drinks on sale. Whether it’s tea and biscuits or coffee and cake, having a snack with a hot drink is something of an unwritten rule and, with the UK consuming over 70 million cups of coffee every day, there is huge potential to up-sell a delicious range of treats.
Of course, a large proportion of the UK’s café sales come via a takeaway cup – whether it’s the first drink on the morning commute, or a cheeky grab and go in-between rushing to meeting. This means your snacking selection too, has to be suitable for people on the move.
When it comes to snacks, it can be easy to fall back on familiar favourites, with little to no time to contemplate or research a wider range of ‘free-from’ or nutritional food choices for their customers to enjoy. By providing a wider selection of healthy food snacks alongside their drink choices - snacks made from premium, honest ingredients and delivering indulgent taste to suit a more nutritionally-savvy audience - café owners can put themselves in a great position to expand their audiences and boost sales figures.
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Meet The Gut Stuff
Why should I make space on my shelf?
Gut health and fibre is top of the agenda for shoppers. So why does the snacking category not have a suitable option? That’s why The Gut Stuff launched their high fibre bar range. Offering more fibre, cleaner ingredients and lower calories than the rest of the market, these are the snack bar for your gut, whilst filling a whitespace within the category.
Shoppers are looking to live the gut life, so stock this product and you are giving them an easy and tasty way for them to do just this.
Why are these bars good for the gut?
The Gut Stuff High Fibre bars have 10g of fibre. People are recommended to eat 30g of fibre a day which can be difficult hence the reports stating that 9 in 10 people in the UK are not getting enough fibre. These bars are the answer to the problem, being an easy and tasty way to get 1/3 of your fibre fix making them the daily snack for your gut.
What's the story behind the founders?
When The Gut Stuff founders, former DJs The Mac Twins, participated in a TwinsUK research study, they discovered that despite having 100% of the same DNA, their guts shared only 30-40% of the same bacteria. They wanted to understand how and why this was but found the world of gut health to be a luxury, full of expensive products and inaccessible messaging. The Gut Stuff was born to change that. We believe gut health should be a right, not a privilege and therefore exist to offer education, as well as simple, convenient & tasty products so people can live the gut life!
Why do consumers seek high fibre snacks?
Not only do 1 in 4 people have digestive issues, but with the guts linked to mental health and immunity, gut health affects everyone and goes way beyond just your digestive system. Why is fibre important?
Fibre feeds your gut bacteria. Reports show that it’s the bacteria that plays a role in digesting food, regulating immune systems and may even impact your mood, given that 95% of serotonin (your happy hormone) is produced in the gut. This is why the gut is now being increasingly connected to metabolism, immunity and mental health.
Meet Fellow Creatures
Fellow Creatures makes the creamiest vegan chocolate. They use ethically sourced cocoa beans and their dairy free recipes contain creamed coconut for truly plant-based, healthier indulgence.
Why should I make space on my shelf?
Fellow Creatures created vegan chocolate in a way like no one has ever done before; they replaced dairy with creamed coconut while working with cocoa collaboratives, paying farmers 60% over trade price for their beans. Thanks to their proprietary recipes made in Switzerland, their chocolate bars are creamer than any other plant-based chocolate currently on the market.
The triple-certified Fellow Creatures produces chocolate with the highest environmental standards in mind; they are a carbon-neutral B Corp with all recipes approved by The Vegan Society. Their packaging is fully recyclable in the paper stream.
Who's likely to pick up a Fellow Creatures?
Since its launch in 2020, Fellow Creatures quickly gained a cult-like following and sold more than 500,000 bars via their online store. Recently, they gained nationwide distribution via a variety of wholesalers, 160 WH Smith travel locations, and specialty retailers such as Selfridges, The Vegan Kind Supermarket. The curvy, body-positive characters highly resonate with a millennial/Gen Z consumer while their vibrant and colourful packaging pops off the shelves.
What are the flavours in the range?
The 70g chocolate bars come in 5 flavours:
**Creamy Milkless Chocolate - the creamiest milk-style vegan chocolate currently on the market **Creamy Hazelnut Chocolate - with freshly-roasted Piedmont (highest-grade Italian) hazelnut nibs **Salted Caramel Chocolate - A Blonde chocolate (between white and conventional ‘brown’ chocolate) made with with sea salt and caramelised sugar, the only vegan Caramac on the market **Raspberry White Chocolate - a striking pink chocolate bar with real freeze-dried raspberries - you can even hear the raspberry seedlets popping on your teeth as you chew. ** Matcha White Chocolate - a show-stopping green chocolate bar with ceremonial-grade Matcha green tea powder. Matcha is extremely on trend at the moment and this flavour has quickly become our best seller.
What do they use instead of dairy?
Fellow Creatures' innovative products have proprietary recipes using creamed coconut instead of dairy and therefore are completely unique to the market. Unlike other chocolate companies who buy readily available base chocolate (couverture) as an ingredient to melt and mold then sell under their brand name.
Fellow Creatures is committed to paying 60% over trade price for cocoa. They do this by only working with carefully selected cocoa collaboratives in Ghana to grant 100% traceability back to the farm. Where are the products made? When consumers think of creamy chocolate they instantly think of Switzerland. This is the reason why Fellow Creatures turned Swiss chocolate makers when they set out to create the creamiest vegan chocolate.
Meet Buttermilk
Butterm!lk has been creating delicious confectionery in Cornwall since 1964. We're proud of our Cornish roots where it all started in a traditional fudge shop the heart of Padstow. We’re a family-run business, headed up by Tracy and David since 2010.
What is the story?
Whilst Butterm!lk is a heritage Cornish brand, Tracy and David opened new doors for Butterm!lk. The now well-established range of dairy free and vegan products were launched, so that everyone can enjoy some choccy goodness and we remain committed to providing everybody with truly exceptional treats.
Why should retailers stock Buttermilk?
We believe that everyone should be able to enjoy Butterm!lk goodies, without having to compromise on taste, quality or value. Hurrah!
Inclusivity is at the heart of Butterm!lk’s mission. After years of testing and ensuring no taste or quality was compromised, the Cornish confectioner launched a range of indulgent vegan and dairy free delights. And don't just take our word for it, our consumers lovingly tell us too.
We’re committed to no nasties in our products and to zero waste with our packaging. This means we only use packaging designed to be recyclable, containing recycled materials or that's reusable.
How does the brand stay relevant?
With 60% of the population looking to reduce the amount of animal products they consume in their diet, the brand’s focus on plant-powered delicious choccy has enabled the brand to stay relevant for today’s consumer and be relevant for many future generations.
Tell us one fun fact
Our Caramel Nougat choccy bars are the first free from brand to win in the main confectionery category in The Grocer Awards.
Meet Sweet Lounge
Sweet Lounge is passionate about great tasting sweets with our Earth at heart, focusing our attention on the environmental impact of our brand not only at the forefront but also behind the scenes as well.
What is the mission behind the brand?
We're on a mission to create the best tasting vegan sweets without any nonsense! Without artificial ingredients, without compromise on taste or texture and without the single-use packaging. Our delicious gummies are the perfect guilt-free treat, better for the environment and better for you.
The sale of each packet goes towards planting and conserving trees in the Amazon Rainforest, where communities are working tirelessly to restore the beautiful landscapes that have been destroyed and neglected. Our pouches also degrade into the earth without leaving a trace behind and without leaving any chemicals to damage the soil that we all rely on for life on our precious Earth.
What makes Sweet Lounge different?
Our brightly coloured brand and packaging reflects optimism in life, to live more boldly and to just be our awesome-self. Because life is beautiful and we should make the most of it.
Unlike other supermarket sweets, the vegan gummy pouches from Sweet Lounge are not packaged in single use plastic. These packets are 100% plastic-free, Made in Europe and certified by TÜV AUSTRIA Belgium for 'OK Home compost'. Simply pop these into your home compost or food waste collection bin. They will naturally degrade in compost in around 4-6 months and leave no trace of harmful substances behind.
Taking plastic-free serious
We only buy green energy to power our premises, have a total ban on plastic bottles in the office and try to make our kitchen as zero-waste as possible. Sweet Lounge also aims to be Certified Carbon Neutral by 2024 or earlier.
8 Healthy Office Canteen Snacks to Boost Your Workplace Wellness
Consumers' growing passion and awareness of sustainability and wellness brings with them a need to cater to these changing attitudes. Reports have shown that “71% of consumers are more concerned about the environment than pre-pandemic”, and this change in mindset reinforces the need for businesses to be providing healthy office canteen snacks that align with these values.
Your office space should be a positive and motivating environment that encourages healthy behaviours and promotes physical and mental well-being. Providing employees with a range of healthy snacks and drinks is a great workplace perk, and will help them stay hydrated and energised throughout their working day.
Healthy snacks have become a must in every office space and with an ever-growing selection of delicious and nutritious options available, it’s never been easier to maintain a healthy diet while at work! Supplying a delicious variety of healthy, low-calorie snacks and drinks for the office will contribute to making it a more enjoyable environment for employees, and provide comfort for employees in the knowledge that the office canteen will cater to all preferences.
How Canteen Breaks Could Have a Positive Impact on Your Work
Spending the whole working day glued to a chair, without taking proper breaks away from a laptop can be detrimental to productivity, motivation and mental wellbeing. Canteen breaks work to encourage employees to step away from their desks and allow them to recharge and destress. Canteen breaks also help to encourage healthy habits such as going out on walks, socialising with colleagues, going to the gym, or having quiet time away from any work stress.
So whether they need a yummy and healthy snack to take with them on a stroll, nibble on whilst having a catch up with colleagues, fuel up on before a workout, or enjoy in the peace of quiet of their own company, stocking up on a variety of snacks will ensure there’s something for everyone.
Providing easy access to an array of healthy canteen snacks and drinks for your employees will bring various benefits. Improved focus, increased mood and productivity, and higher employee morale and satisfaction, just to name a few. It will also show employees that you’re making a personal investment in them, care about their health and wellbeing, and also allow them to save money.
Our Recommended Wholesale Healthy Office Canteen Snacks and Drinks
Providing a range of healthy snacks and drinks to encourage employees to stay hydrated and maximise their concentration is super important. With the ever-growing variety and increase in demand, there are just so many to choose from! The greater the variety of snacks for the office you can offer the better as this will ensure there’s something for everyone. We’ve pulled together a selection of some of our recommendations for healthy canteen snacks to help you decide.
These Barebellsvegan protein bars are the perfect choice when it comes to office snacking. Vegan, containing 15g of protein, and made from a combination of creamy nougat and chocolate-coated crispy hazelnuts, what’s not to like?
When you hit that afternoon slump, sometimes you just need a little healthy something to give you that final boost. Peanutty, packed full of flavour and containing 7g of protein these chocolate flapjacks from Graze are a lovely treat to have with any cuppa of choice and are the perfect afternoon pick-me-up.
This salty pretzel-flavoured oat milk chocolate bar from HiP is a dreamy sweet treat. With many consumers opting for dairy alternatives, it’s important for workplaces to adapt this into their store. This chocolate bar will certainly be appreciated by employees.
Free from all the major food allergens these Creative Nature fruit oat bars are a great snack for any time of day. Whether employees didn’t have time for breakfast before leaving the house, or are peckish before a meeting, these bars are perfect to grab and go.
Your employees will go bananas for these delicious Barebells milkshakes. With 24g of protein per serving and no added sugar, they’re a great healthy and yummy way for your employees to get their daily protein in before heading to the gym.
Stocking the office fridge with these Jimmys iced coffees will ensure caffeine satisfaction all day long. With a large transition to plant-based milk and dairy alternatives, these are guaranteed to be a hit in the office canteen!
A perfect and refreshing energy boost, containing equal caffeine to one cup of coffee, whilst containing zero sugar and zero calories… Your employees are guaranteed to be berry impressed with these Virtue energy drinks.
Everyone knows how important it is to stay hydrated throughout the day. From aiding digestion and helping blood circulation, to improving concentration and boosting energy levels, the benefits are numerous. These sparkling British spring waters from Dash Water, infused with wonky blackcurrants, are a great way to encourage employees to boost their water intake whilst in the office.
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Capturing the Plant-Based Snack Trend:10 New Wholesale Vegetarian Snacks to Fuel Your Shop
As consumers continue to reduce their meat intake, it’s important to ensure that your store can keep up with the increasing demand for healthy plant-based snacks. This increase in vegetarian and vegan consumers, and their attraction to healthier snacking options, means that shop owners need to ensure they’re staying ahead of competitors by stocking up on a variety of healthy wholesale vegetarian snacks in their stores.
The movement away from meat and dairy products
The Gen Z and Millennial generations are moving towards a plant-based diet quicker than any other generation, and are quickly becoming the largest shopper group in this area. Heavily conscious of their own health and their impact on the environment, they are expected to be almost entirely responsible for the growth of dairy and meat alternatives through 2024. These consumers expect shops to cater for their needs and preferences, making it essential for shop owners to provide a variety of tasty but healthy vegetarian and vegan snacking options in the shops.
With there being a whopping 47,079 convenience stores in the UK at the beginning of 2022, the importance of adapting and keeping up with the latest dieting trends has only continued to grow.
What healthy plant-based snacks to buy wholesale for your store?
When it comes to selecting which wholesale vegetarian snacks to buy for your store, it can be hard to know which delicious and nutritious snacks to choose. From nutrient-dense nut bars to crunchy and light hummus crisps, Epicurium can provide all the popular healthy vegan-friendly snacks in bulk to keep your consumers happy and ensure they have access to the best selection of vegetarian snacks.
We’ve pulled together some of our most popular wholesale vegetarian snacks to help you pick which ones will be best for your store.
These sweet and delicious vegan cream-filled wafers are a great snack when you need to satisfy those sweet cravings. All coated in LoveRaw’s iconic milk chocolate
3 reasons why it will sell:
The world’s first vegan chocolate cream-filled wafer
Crispy wafer, with just the right amount of crunch, smothered in a rich layer of indulgent vegan chocolate
Palm oil free, refined sugar-free and made with Organic Fairtrade chocolate
It would be an opportunity missed not to stock up on Caraboo Creamy orange bars. Like chocolate, but not chocolate, but made with carob pods, creamed coconut and all of the good stuff nature has to offer!
These sweets are popular for a reason – and they’ve just got even better with this limited edition mixed flavour from Candy Kittens.
3 reasons why it will sell:
All natural ingredients
Palm oil free
Carbon neutral brand appealing to socially conscious shoppers
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Delicious Trending Snacks to Make Your Coffee Shop Stand Out
With the highly competitive nature of coffee shops, coffee shop owners are constantly looking for ways to help them stand out from the competition. Window displays, customer service, interior decor, offers… They all help to make a good impression on customers and set your local business apart from the rest. However, another guaranteed way to stand out is by offering a variety of delicious and healthy trending snacks for customers to choose from when getting their caffeine fix. Because everyone knows you can’t beat a good cup of coffee accompanied by a sweet treat, right?
Why Are Trending Snacks Important For Your Coffee Shop?
With more emphasis than ever being placed on snacks and food, coffee shops are under increasing pressure to select quality products for customers to enjoy in their shop or grab n go. Stocking up with a range of healthy and popular snacking delights will ensure your customers are left wanting to come back again, and again.
Selecting healthy but delicious snacks is guaranteed to enhance customer experience, and by regularly bringing new trending snacks in, you’ll be able to attract new customers and keep your loyal customers returning day to day. Popping your yummy selection of snacks in your display units, along with any freshly baked goods, or by the till will encourage customers to make impulse snacking purchases on their daily visit.
What consumers expect from their coffee shop
Consumers continue to become more and more demanding with their expectations when they go to a coffee shop. The trend toward healthy living has created an ever-increasing surge of people looking for healthy snacks.
Healthy food alternatives are set to remain one of the top trends to dominate the hospitality market, and it doesn’t look like the competition will die down any time soon. There are a reported 7,427 Cafes & Coffee Shops businesses in the UK as of 2022, an increase of 0.5% from 2021. In order to keep up with the expanding industry, and stand out from the competition, it’s essential to keep up with consumers’ new values and dietary trends in order to keep them coming back.
One of the biggest challenges to coffee shop owners is the need to stay up to date with consumers’ needs, wants and preferences. Stocking up on a variety of snacks that are healthy, whilst not compromising on taste, allows you to appeal to a wide base of customers, providing them with the convenience of grab-n-go snacks that suit all their cravings.
Trending Snacks That Will Help Your Coffee Shop To Stand Out
The team at Epicurium have handpicked some of our popular snacks that will help your coffee shop to stand out from competitors.
Flower & White – Vegan Chocolate Dipped Strawberry Meringue Bar
These vegan chocolate-dipped strawberry meringue bars from Flower & White will be a guaranteed hit with your customers. 100% dairy-free and made from unique egg-free meringue, these low-calorie bars contain only 84 calories per serving.
Lexi’s Crispy Marshmallow Bar – Triple Choc Delight
A chocolate treat is a mmm-must in any coffee shop and will become a solid favourite. Who doesn’t love triple choc delight from Lexi’s… especially when it’s guilt-free at only 99 calories per bar!
Mallow & Marsh – Raspberry & Dark Chocolate Marshmallow Bar
These light and melt-in-the-mouth raspberry and dark chocolate marshmallow bars from Mallow & Marsh are only 132 calories per bar.
Moma – Cranberry & Raisin Porridge Pot
Made with whole cranberries and raisins and gluten-free jumbo oats, this porridge from Moma packs a fruity punch to start your day.
Rhythm 108 – Creamy Coconut Bar
This Rhythm 108 vegan swiss chocolate bar with a creamy coconut centre is a coconutty delight, and will be a great addition to any snacking selection.
Traybakes – Milk Chocolate Caramel Shortcake
The perfect pairing with any cuppa of choice, the Traybakes milk chocolate caramel shortcake is a must for your coffee shop.
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