Fast Food’s Next Playbook: Emotional Logic, Growth Tribes, and the End of Routine

Thought Leadership
October 21, 2025

Fast Food’s Next Playbook: Emotional Logic, Growth Tribes, and the End of Routine

See how brands attract new growth, not driven just by price, but occasion, emotion, and connection

Sooth's Emotional Logic Interface, ELI, has identified four growth tribes among the 43% of people that aren't regular fast food customer, Experimenters, Cravers, Balancers, and Provisioners. Eli has also made informed predictions for the industry's future including a margin reset by mid-2026 as well as preference overtaking location by 2027. With this information and more brands are called to consider what customers value from them in this changing climate.