Food

Food trends and recipes to keep menus fresh

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Industry celebs’ wildest picks for best dishes of 2015

If you’ve never had a roasted pig’s head dropped on your table, you haven’t eaten Mexican.

Food

Restaurant Business editors pick their top dishes of 2015

At Winsight Media, parent of Restaurant Business, we are constantly tracking foodservice trends and developments for magazines, digital platforms and events.

Chefs and industry folks aren’t the only ones who blend pleasure and profession over restaurant meals. At Winsight Media, we are constantly tracking trends.

Looking back over the year, certain key words seemed to capture what was happening on restaurant menus. Here’s a recap of what shaped menus in 2015.

The North African spice is heating up.

Meaning “sausage kitchen” in German, fast-casual Wurstküche serves a variety of encased meats and imported German brews to customers in Denver and L.A.

Plant-forward menus are a top trend, but creating veggiecentric dishes in a fast casual can pose challenges, as Jose Andres’ ThinkFoodGroup discovered.

In a 2015 Technomic survey, 72 percent of consumers said they now expect restaurants to allow them to customize meals. But it can be a struggle to execute.

Logan's Roadhouse's new LTO, Pork Fries, is meant to appeal to consumers as a sharable item that worked for happy hour, late night and as an appetizer.

Here are some of the more unusual products chains are touting this winter to set themselves apart.

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