ready-to-drink
Speech parts
1. ready-to-drink - Noun
2. ready-to-drink - Adjective
Meaning
ready-to-drink (not comparable)
Describing a packaged beverage sold in a prepared form, ready for consumption, such as ice tea or alcopops.
Synonym: (initialism) RTD
ready-to-drink (plural ready-to-drinks)
(informal) A ready-to-drink beverage.
Synonym: (initialism) RTD
Examples
Each kit includes a ready-to-drink iced coffee, K-Cup coffee pods, a box of Dunkin' cereal, creamers, masks, tattoos, tote bags, and other promotional swag.
Its stores offer coffee and tea beverages, roasted whole bean and ground coffees, single-serve and ready-to-drink beverages, and iced tea; and various food products, such as pastries, breakfast sandwiches, and lunch items.
Grape and apple farmers are also struggling — Distell buys more than a third of South Africa’s grapes for wine, brandy and ready-to-drink beverages and half the country’s apple juice concentrate, used for cider.
In fact, Gold Peak drove nearly 30% of all dollar growth in the U.S. ready-to-drink tea category in 2014.
Suntory, for example, launched a completely transparent ready-to-drink milk tea.
“We expect to see coffee shop sales continue on an upward trajectory over the next five years; however, increased competition from the ready-to-drink coffee category could pose a substantial threat.