New York (CNN Business) Dunkin' is expanding its breakfast menu with a trendy new item: a meatless sausage sandwich.

The chain will start selling a breakfast sandwich made with Beyond Meat's vegan sausage at 163 locations across Manhattan on Wednesday, with plans to roll out the $4.29 sandwich nationally at some point.

Dunkin' is the latest fast food chain to start selling meat substitutes. Others, like Burger King Tim Hortons and Little Caesars , have also partnered with Beyond or Impossible Foods — Beyond's main rival — to add plant-based foods to their menus.

The trend is heating up as people try to eat less meat for health reasons and to reduce their impacts on the planet . US retail sales of plant-based foods have grown 11% in the past year, according to a July report from trade group Plant Based Foods Association and the Good Food Institute, a nonprofit that supports plant-based businesses.

Dunkin' is selling a breakfast sandwich with Beyond Meat sausage in Manhattan.

Barclays predicts the alternative meat sector could reach about $140 billion over the next decade, capturing about 10% of the global meat industry.

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