Food

Food trends and recipes to keep menus fresh

Food

Skyline Chili debuts new Coney

The Cincinnati-based chain collaborated with Queen City Sausage on the new menu item.

Food

3 ways operators are innovating with sustainability

To continue pushing the bar forward, restaurants can make moves to clean up their operations. Check out these three ways that operators are answering consumers’ call for increased sustainability.

As global cuisines were flourishing at lunch and dinner, it was only a matter of time before those trends hit breakfast menus—and that time is right about now.

With a few strategy tweaks, menu revamps and maybe an added service or two, the midday daypart can thrive.

Time-crunched consumers are increasingly eating breakfast on the run. Try these convenient grab-and-go recipes to help them fuel up in the morning.

As the make-your-own model grows synonymous with fast casuals, new sandwich spots are upgrading the handheld with elevated ingredients and chef-crafted builds.

Pollo Campero, the Guatemalan fried-chicken chain, is Americanizing its menu with the addition of such familiar choices as tacos, empanadas and panini.

The 50-foot salad bar at Souplantation/Sweet Tomatoes is a big draw for guests who come to create customized salads. But the 125-unit chain also offers four varying “recipe” salads tossed fresh every 20 minutes in exhibition kitchens at each location. The most recent of these is the Grilled Steakhouse Salad.

We sat down with Hubert Keller during the 2013 Restaurant Leadership Conference to find out how he differentiates his restaurant and his burgers.

Several factors have contributed to the rise in popularity of Southeast Asian flavors, including consumer interest in bolder flavor profiles. Integrating these eclectic flavors into your menu can only help your operation and pique customer interest.

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