The Planting Hope Company Inc. (Planting Hope) announced that Planting Hope was invited to showcase its product lines at the DOT Food Innovations show, June 13-15 in St. Louis, Missouri. All three brands, RightRice Veggie Rice, Hope and Sesame Sesamemilk, and Mozaics Real Veggie Chips are newly listed in DOT Foods, making them available to more than 4,500 distributors and 200,000 Foodservice end user locations nationwide.

The DOT Foods Innovations Show brings together DOT customers, suppliers, and national account operators, to make meaningful connections, discover industry insights, and explore trending products-all available through DOT. At DOT Innovations, Planting Hope offered samples of a RightRice Pad Thai- style bowl prepared by Planting Hope's Michelin Star Chef Henry Hill. Menu solutions on display included a RightRice Vegetarian Burrito and a RightRice Mediterranean Bowl, similar to the bowls at CAVA Restaurants, where RightRice is offered by name as a Grain Bowl base.

The Bowl menu trend now appears on more than 25% of restaurant menus nationwide and is continuing to scale rapidly. As Bleu Zones put it (Super Bowls: Why This Healthier Food Trend is Here to Stay), the Bowl Boom emerged from fast-casual restaurants almost by accident, an ad hoc solution for meeting off-menu special requests from customers. Seen this way, it's clear that bowls are the food format we'd long wanted, rather than some clever marketing ploy foisted upon us.

Bowls are now a fixture on the menu of Fast-Casual Restaurants, which fill the gap between fast-food and casual table-service restaurants; there are more than 40,000 Fast-Casual restaurant outlets in the United States, and annual revenues are anticipated to grow by $55.4 billion between 2022-2027, a CAGR of 12%. To build a Bowl, typically a consumer selects a Base, then a Protein, then a variety of Veggies, wet Toppings (beans, guacamole, hummus), dry Toppings (seeds, croutons, cheese), and Dressing. Popular bowl bases on menus include Salad Greens, Grains (rice, quinoa, cauliflower rice, lentils), and Noodles (zucchini noodles, rice noodles, ramen).

Ounce-for-ounce, RightRice Foodservice bulk product is priced comparably to quinoa, and less than animal protein sources, also providing opportunities for operator cost savings across the finished product as additional protein is not required to complete the meal. For Beverage menu solution ideation, Hope and Sesame Barista Blend Sesamemilk was featured in a Toasted Black Sesame Nitro Latte and in a Vanilla Matcha Latte.