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title: "Are Plant-Based Alternatives Here To Stay?"
url: https://burnaze.com/article/4f63fd9c-445c-44f8-9f09-519bc88449e4
source: "1851 Franchise"
original_url: https://1851franchise.com/capitalspring/are-plant-based-alternatives-here-to-stay-2710740
category: "Restaurants"
industry: "Restaurants"
published: 2019-08-15T23:18:15.000Z
modified: 2026-11-01T02:29:52.441Z
image: https://newimage.1851franchise.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=85,format=webp,width=1280,height=720/story/featureImage/c453208dd8c9527615831e915762f1703428.jpg
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# Are Plant-Based Alternatives Here To Stay?

**TL;DR:** Meatless options are a huge trend in restaurants in 2019, with private equity firm CapitalSpring monitoring to see if the trend will be a fad or a long-term sales generator. CapitalSpring has invested more than $1-billion in restaurant concepts.

*originally published in 1851 Franchise on 2019-08-15. [Read the original](https://1851franchise.com/capitalspring/are-plant-based-alternatives-here-to-stay-2710740).*

## Story

Meatless options are a huge trend in restaurants in 2019, and private equity firm CapitalSpring, which has invested more than $1-billion in restaurant concepts, is monitoring to see if the trend will be a fad or a long-term sales generator.

Nation's Restaurant News recently covered the trend, with Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods accounting for the bulk of the $192-million investment that Food & Tech Connect reported went into alternative meat and seafood products in 2018. CapitalSpring has noted that menu mix for meatless options has not been more than typical LTO's so far, however the price point that restaurants are able to place on meatless options makes for attractive margins - but it's still too early to determine the long-term viability of the trend. “We’re not really drawing conclusions from that at this point,” Erik Herrmann, Partner & Head of Restaurant Group for CapitalSpring told NRN, adding that, "...

it could be a honeymoon. It’s just too early to tell.”

## Entities

- 1851 Franchise (publication)
- Restaurants (sector)
- menu pricing (topic)
- private equity (topic)
- Nation's Restaurant News (publication)
- Beyond Meat (company)
- Capital Spring (investor)
- restaurant trends (topic)
- Impossible Foods (company)
- Erik Herrmann (person)
- meatless options (topic)

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Originally reported by 1851 Franchise (https://1851franchise.com/capitalspring/are-plant-based-alternatives-here-to-stay-2710740). Summarized by Burnaze (https://burnaze.com/article/4f63fd9c-445c-44f8-9f09-519bc88449e4).