Should Your Restaurant Be Catering More for Vegans?

3 Min Read By Amy Hodgetts

Veganism has enjoyed a rapid change over the last few years, thanks to an increase in contributing concerns: the environment, for one, as well as our overall health. In fact, veganism has become popular enough to be deemed a trend, but is it here to stay?

Not so long ago, going vegan was seen as an extreme choice to give up tasty food: no chocolate? No bacon? No cheese? How could anyone give up such tasty treats? Well, the simple answer now is, vegans don't give these things up; they simply replace them with vegan-alternatives that taste just as good.

But do they taste good enough for the hospitality industry to pick up? They are certainly delicious enough for the UK household, with plant-based food sales up 1,500 percent between 2016 and 2017.

Data from the Vegan Society shows that:

56 percent of adults in the UK practice vegan buying behaviors 19 percent have cut down on buying meat and are checking cosmetics and toiletries for animal-testing 13 percent actively choose…