Food

Food trends and recipes to keep menus fresh

Food

Chefs’ favorite recipes

These recipes, shared with attendees at the 23rd Annual Tastes of the World Chef Culinary Conference at UMass Amherst, tap into some of today’s top trends.

Food

5 ways menus are getting cheesier

Operators continue to seize the opportunity to raise the bar on cheese in a variety of ways.

Widespread availability of fry options means that for operators to stand out, it’s key to offer a signature twist.

The catering option serves 10 or more guests and allows them to customize their own burger.

A blended option at Burgh'ers now brings in 10-15% of weekly revenue.

Diners are seeking meals with fresh, clean ingredients, and salads certainly fit that bill. Lately, there’s been an increased interest in three classic preparations. Here’s how chefs are reinventing them.

Chains, put these ingredients on your culinary radar.

Operators are taking advantage of falling meat prices when adding new sandwiches to the lineup.

The introduction a few weeks ago of Burger King’s mini-sandwiches was relatively low-key, perhaps a reflection of the limited-time options not being completely new.

Greg Atkinson was buying and promoting local foods long before it became the routine thing to do for top chefs. The former chef of Seattle’s Canlis then took time off from cooking in restaurants to teach culinary arts and write about food. Now Atkinson is back at the stove in his newly opened Marché on Bainbridge Island in Winslow, Wash., where he’s again preparing the most indigenous ingredients he can get his hands on.

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