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title: "Nation’s Restaurant News: Soup Steps Into Starring Role"
url: https://burnaze.com/article/a4fe7476-79ca-4a69-bdc5-b16f30e285b1
source: "1851 Franchise"
original_url: https://1851franchise.com/nations-restaurant-news-soup-steps-into-starring-role-9882
category: "Restaurants"
industry: "Restaurants"
published: 2017-02-02T14:09:39.000Z
modified: 2026-11-01T03:19:15.186Z
image: https://newimage.1851franchise.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=85,format=webp,width=1280,height=720/story/featureImage/b3499b24f43b2f8ca4cdd4113944f3cd3220.jpg
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# Nation’s Restaurant News: Soup Steps Into Starring Role

**TL;DR:** Consumers are turning to soup as a convenient and flavorful meal option, with soups, chilis, and stews appearing on menus as main dishes. Soups, chilis and stews are starting to pop up on menus as main dishes increasingly more, up 3.3 percent over the past four years.

*originally published in 1851 Franchise on 2017-02-02. [Read the original](https://1851franchise.com/nations-restaurant-news-soup-steps-into-starring-role-9882).*

## Story

As lunch and dinner restaurant traffic is decreasing, consumers are leaning towards snacking and less traditional dayparts for their meals. According to a recent Nation’s Restaurant News article , soup is helping to fill that gap with an array of flavors for customers and an easy dish to make for operators.

Soups, chilis and stews are starting to pop up on menus as main dishes increasingly more – up 3.3 percent over the past four years--while they are decreasing as appetizers and sides and down 2.1 percent.

“If you could sell only soup in a retail environment, it’s actually a very easy business. The other stuff is more complicated,” said Andrew Schnipper, co-founder of Hale and Hearty Soups.

## Entities

- 1851 Franchise (publication)
- Restaurants (sector)
- Nation's Restaurant News (publication)
- menu trends (topic)
- restaurant traffic (topic)
- soup popularity (topic)

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Originally reported by 1851 Franchise (https://1851franchise.com/nations-restaurant-news-soup-steps-into-starring-role-9882). Summarized by Burnaze (https://burnaze.com/article/a4fe7476-79ca-4a69-bdc5-b16f30e285b1).