12 Feb The Tribeca Oven 2025 Bread Trends Forecast
In an increasingly saturated market, it is key that food service operators stay aware of emerging and growing food trends. Regardless of the type of cuisine(s) you serve, there are numerous ways to keep your guests engaged with your menu, and enticed to return for future visits. By capturing the momentum of certain viral ingredients or trending dishes, your establishment can stay relevant and delight your customers all throughout the year.
Part of Tribeca Oven’s resource-sharing through The Crumb Collective, our artisan bread community for operators, is monitoring and forecasting trends in the bread and culinary spaces. As we consider what’s ahead in 2025, we consulted Tastewise, an AI-driven platform that provides insights in the food and beverage industry. This powerful tool uses data insights and research to uncover trends, preferences, and unmet needs shaping the market.
Here are the bread trends for 2025 that we discovered, and ways to harness them for high-impact, high-value LTO specials and menu additions in the months ahead:
Pork & Chicken
It’s not a surprise that the most popular ingredients to pair with artisan breads are lean, versatile animal proteins. While classics like chicken salad and ham and cheese may come to mind, during cold-weather days, consider a heartier entree, like a Pork Loin Dinner paired with a bread basket for a cozy special. To add a homey, Sunday-supper style touch, pair the main with a bread basket of sliced Tribeca Oven Ciabatta Loaf or Café Classic Rosemary.
Whipped Cheeses
Feta and cottage cheese have both seen non-stop upwards trending action over the last three years. Perhaps thanks to viral recipes shared through social media platforms, whipped feta has trended up 203% year over year, and cottage cheese’s popularity has increased 114% year over year. While we believe feta will still keep going strong, we suggest diverging from the ubiquity of the whipped version in favor of a more textural chopped Feta Spread with Tribeca Oven Olive Petite Pull Aparts, which features a trio of Greek olives. The influence from Asia/ Middle East is also seen here with the rise of Baba Ganoush (+131% YoY) and Soybean (+117% YoY).
Tomato & Garlic
From meatballs to pizza to caprese sandwiches (up 94% year over year in trends, by the way), Tastewise’s data shows that tomato and garlic are also at the top of the list of ingredients to incorporate into bread-based dishes. Lean into the aromatic intrigue of garlic with an allium-forward appetizer, like Warm Garlic Dip, served with sliced Tribeca Oven French Baguette, or serve Tribeca Oven’s Cafe Classic Garlic loaf with soups, stews or creamy dips. For a reimagining of the popular Caprese ingredient trio of tomato, mozzarella and basil, try the Blistered Tomato Caprese Sandwich, or stick to the classic with a Tomato and Mozzarella Sandwich on Tribeca Oven Multigrain Loaf.
Old-School Deli
Even as trends come and go, consumers still often crave familiar New York deli-style sandwiches. This trend is especially evident with the robust numbers around pastrami sandwiches, up 112% year over year. The long-established bread for a pastrami sandwich is rye, with a depth of flavor and hearty texture that can keep its shape piled high with meat, sauerkraut, cheese and Russian dressing. For a fresh take on pastrami-on-rye, our Broccolini Pastrami Sandwich adds colorful crunchy broccoli to the sandwich build, and swaps in baguette as the carrier.
Crunchy & Creamy Textures
As a number of the trending ingredients and dishes above so, there is also a consumer focus on texture. Tastewise reports that crunchy (+5% YoY), and crispy (+36% YoY) are among the most popular and top-growing textures that consumers are seeking. In artisan bread, this means the crunchy crust on our artisan breads and the whole grains and seeds found in many of our products.
Bonus: Tastewise’s insights also show a 170% year over year increase in Fougasse (+170% YoY), a rustic French bread with a distinctive shape that resembles the shape of wheat. This illustrates that consumers maintain curiosity about and a hunger for the authentic flavor and texture of artisan breads.
We hope all of our operators have a successful 2025! Don’t forget that The Crumb Collective is here to help inspire your culinary creations and support you as you tackle each day. For more innovative recipes and bread-ucation, follow us on YouTube, Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn.
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