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Lizzy Freier

Managing Editor

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Lizzy Freier is a managing editor at Technomic, a Winsight Company, with a focus on menu trends. Lizzy covers trending flavors, ingredients, dishes and preparations for food and beverage at independent restaurants, emerging chains and top chain restaurant brands. She has also analyzed global trends. She has presented at numerous conferences in the U.S. and Canada on menu trend development for restaurant operators, manufacturers and distributors.

Lizzy studied English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She currently resides in Chicago.

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Food

Menu news of the week: October 29, 2019

Chefs and R&D teams are launching new menu items at a fast clip. Here’s a roundup of the most recent introductions and menu news.

Food

This week’s menu news

A roundup of items that are in the works or launching in chains.

Food

5 menu stars fading from the spotlight

On the rise for five years straight, these once-hot trends are cooling down.

Food

18 flavors shaping modern menus

These on-the-rise ingredients are set to pop on the radar for trendsetters.

Consumer Trends

What's most likely to spur consumer cravings?

Cooking demos and on-premise ads aren’t doing it for most diners, but these five things are.

Consumer Trends

The top 10 chains that satisfy cravings

Customers share which brands have the menu items they most crave and can’t get anywhere else.

Food

4 pork preps growing on menus

Operators are finding ways to balance rising pork costs with the growing demand for the protein.

Consumer Trends

Top 5 LTOs in December: Craveability vs. Purchase Intent

Often, the menu items deemed the most craveable aren’t the ones consumers say they’re most likely to purchase.

Food

Top menu trends of 2017

These eight food and drink forces shaped menus this year.

Consumer Trends

Customers’ most-craved seafood

See which 10 chains are winning with seafood that consumers say they can’t get anywhere else.

Emerging Brands

Diners’ picks of 2017’s 100 best restaurants

OpenTable diners reveal which restaurants won them over this year.

Consumer Trends

Takeaways from LTO Leaders

Some common threads appear among the success stories.

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