Food

Food trends and recipes to keep menus fresh

Food

4 tips for next-level burgers

To keep diners interested, chefs are experimenting with new, craveable burger offerings.

Food

5 hearty soup recipes

Now that chillier weather has arrived, add something new and satisfying to the menu rotation with one of these recipes, each hearty enough to be an entree.

Executives have indicated the product was an effective lure for new and lapsed customers, but felt the need to adjust the consistency.

Some of the most innovative, inspiring dishes are showing up in family restaurants and neighborhood diners across the country.

Starting Monday, the chain will offer a cheeseburger with under 350 calories.

Operators get customer buy-in by balancing the funky with the familiar.

Coffee drinkers jam the counters at Starbucks waiting to jump-start their day. But more than half of customers come in after 11 a.m., many looking for something to eat.

The annual “What’s Hot” survey of 1,800 chefs by the National Restaurant Association pegged gluten-free/food allergy-conscious items as No. 7 on the top 10 trends list this year. That’s up a notch from its 2011 position.

No longer just an add-on, breakfast is big business, bringing in $57 billion a year to restaurants (2011 Mintel Breakfast Report). Savvy foodservice...

Choosing small plates offers diners the opportunity to try a variety of menu items and flavors—which, according to a recent report by Technomic, is what 70% of consumers are looking for in shareable dining.

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