Case study · Foodservice · Barilla Group

Chefatlas reads 45,000 kitchens before the menu does.

A generative-AI foresight platform built with Barilla, monitoring 45,000+ verified professional chefs to catch foodservice trends while they are still on the pass.

Chefatlas45,000+ VERIFIED CHEFS
45,000+
VERIFIED PROFESSIONAL CHEFS MONITORED
Al Bronzo
BRONZE-CUT PASTA INSIGHT THAT SHAPED POSITIONING
ESOMAR '25
PRESENTED AT TRENDS HORIZON, WASHINGTON D.C.
Human-led
AI SURFACING + EXPERT VALIDATION IN THE LOOP
The challenge

Read the kitchen before the shelf.

Foodservice moves on what professional chefs are cooking right now, long before a trend reaches retail menus or supermarket aisles. Barilla's Global Observatory needed to read that professional layer early, across thousands of kitchens, instead of waiting for it to surface in the mainstream.

How it works

AI taxonomy, with a chef in the loop.

Chefatlas monitors 45,000+ verified professional chefs worldwide. It reads what they post and experiment with, organises it through a generative-AI taxonomy, and keeps a food expert in the loop to validate every signal before it informs a decision.

The outcome

A signal that shaped Al Bronzo.

Reading where professional technique was heading helped shape the positioning of bronze-cut 'Al Bronzo' pasta — a product move grounded in what chefs were already gravitating toward, not a guess about the market.

Recognition

Presented at ESOMAR Trends Horizon 2025.

Nextatlas and Barilla presented Chefatlas at ESOMAR Trends Horizon 2025 in Washington D.C., recognised as a new model for human-led, AI-powered foodservice foresight.

"Chefatlas allowed us to be less reactive and much more proactive. We can spot trends before they even hit the marketplace, because we're looking at what chefs are experimenting with in the moment."
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Alessandra Cervi
GLOBAL OBSERVATORY ASSOC. DIRECTOR · BARILLA GROUP

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