Food
Food trends and recipes to keep menus fresh
Food trends and recipes to keep menus fresh
Across the industry, operators are always looking for innovative and clever ways to cut food costs and maximize labor.
Since August is National Sandwich Month, it's time to inject some creativity into your sandwich lineup. These six recipes prove small tweaks that make a big difference.
It’s been done with hamburgers, with cocktails, with Mexican QSR. Take a familiar concept, one with a degree of built-in familiarity and consumer acceptance, and differentiate it—around the ingredients, the menu, the presentation, the service model. Make it unique and craveable, make it stand out from the competition; just don’t make it so strange that customers don’t know what to make of it.
Offering a mix of innovative global cooking and traditional American fare is essential for Jennifer Cleveland and Eric Heath, co-owners of Cleveland-Heath, a creative comfort-food restaurant in Edwardsville, Ill. “We have old-school diners who love meat and potatoes and large entrées and other people who follow the food movement and go for small plates,” says Heath. “We really want to please them both.”