Food

Food trends and recipes to keep menus fresh

Food

Sustainability without the strain

With more diners focusing on health and wellness, restaurant operators need to work hard to ensure they’re meeting these demands and minimizing the impact their menus have on the environment.

Food

Elevate salads with premium ingredients

Consumers order salads in restaurants an average of 1.4 times per week, and operators are working hard to ensure consumers have delicious and flavorful options to choose from.

Consumers will always seek out classic starters such as stuffed potato skins and spinach artichoke dip on appetizer menus, but the real opportunity for operators is in ethnic specialties and other glo...

Now that everyone is kaled out, health-conscious consumers and trend-watching chefs are on the lookout for the next superfoods superstar. Here are five likely candidates.

The National Restaurant Association Show 2017 got cooking right away.

Substitutions put whiskey sours and other eggy drinks on the menu for veg-only customers.

Spiking beef prices and menu consolidation trends in recent years have led many operators to rethink their menu mix and drop some popular but pricey cuts.

Fermented and pickled foods are a top food trend for 2017.

As the competition in the sandwich category stacks up higher, operators are looking for ways to give their sandwich menus cachet. Many are trading up to better bread.

The protein-and-sides equation that once defined a typical restaurant meal is giving way to a new formula.

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