The days of dividing food by ethnicity -- Chinese, Mexican, Indian, etc. -- are coming to a close, and that will have ramifications for seafood companies and other protein suppliers.
"They are no longer calling it ethnic cuisine. They just call it food," Colleen McClellan of menu research firm Datassential told a crowd of protein suppliers and buyers at the MainCourse 1on1 conference Wednesday in St. Augustine, Florida.
The "they" McClellan is referring to is Generation Z -- sometimes called the iGeneration -- those consumers that follow the much-talked-about Millennials.
