CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – This week, QSR Magazine added its voice to the myriad predictions for the coming year, analyzing industry forecasts and consulting experts to provide the publication’s readers with “insight into the type of menu items that could give them smash successes in the year ahead — or a glimpse of the staggering challenges they’re left to overcome.”

Here are the nine trends that will make the biggest mark on the quick-service industry in the year ahead. Read “9 Fast Food Trends for 2015” for a more detailed analysis.

1. Mobile technology affects everything
2. Do-it-yourself health
3. Looking to Gen Z
4. Local as an expectation
5. Far East flavors dominate
6. Foodservice options in every nook and cranny
7. Sustainability every which way
8. Beverages get the spotlight
9. Heat rises