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MEAL DEAL MONITOR

Understand, Optimise and Grow Your Share of Meal Deal Occasions

A continuous, data‑led view of how meal deals are priced, built and performing across retail and foodservice – connecting real shopper behaviour with real‑world execution.

  • Set the right pricing and value architecture
  • Optimise range and bundle design
  • Strengthen conversations with retail partners
  • Win share in a fast‑evolving, competitive market

Meal deal occasions are growing fast, but becoming harder to win. Meal Deal Monitor gives you the insight you need to capture this opportunity.

Value now goes beyond price to include quality, choice and trust, while retail and foodservice compete for the same missions.

Premium and treat options are reshaping expectations, and even small changes in price or range are shifting behaviour making the right insight critical to capture growth.

  • £24.9bn market with food-to-go continuing to outpace the wider eating out sector
  • +3.4% YoY growth, driven by high-frequency, value-led occasions
  • 24% of total occasions, highlighting its central role in convenience missions

Optimise range, price and promotions with confidence

Understand what really drives value perception, beyond price
Identify where trade-up is coming from and how to unlock more of it
Spot risks early, from declining quality perception to changing behaviours
Align teams around a single, consistent view of performance

Continuous, real-world insight into meal deal performance

Our approach combines consumer behaviour, social listening and market expertise to show how meal deals are evolving across retail and foodservice.
Updated quarterly, Meal Deal Monitor delivers a consistent view of how pricing, product mix and value perception are shifting, so you can track change and act with confidence over time.
By connecting what shoppers do with how the market is moving, it provides a clear, evidence-based view of what drives participation, trade-up and growth.

3,000

consumer interviews per quarter capturing missions, frequency, trade-up and the drivers of value perception.

Social listening

ongoing analysis of consumer sentiment, emerging trends and what’s landing in market.

Quarterly, continuous tracking

to monitor shifts in pricing dynamics, competition and consumer behaviour over time. Delivered via report formats packed with actions you can implement into your business

Integrated Lumina Intelligence expertise

consumer, sentiment and market expertise combined to show what is actually happening, not just what is claimed

Supporting clients in Food To Go space

Secure your access to Meal Deal Monitor

Secure your access before 30 June to be part of the next Meal Deal Monitor research cycle.