If you are looking for expert advice on how to stay fit and healthy during the winter months, you are not alone! Exercising during the winter often presents a challenge, with inclement weather conditions ruling out outdoor sports and even driving to the gym can be ruled out depending on the weather and your mood. With these distractions, what you have is a recipe for disaster: giving up on fitness altogether.
If you are looking for new dishes and ingredients to add to your restaurant’s holiday menu, think “nut butters.” Rising to the top of the popularity charts among professional chefs and bakers alike, your customers are in for a New Year’s treat as you introduce their pallets to the likes of walnut butter, almond butter, cashew butter, pecan butter, soy nut butter, and even seed butters for those with nut allergies.
The new normal in restaurant lingo is restaurant protective products. From protective barriers, social distancing products, cashier shields and more, the list of COVID-19 restaurant protection products is on the rise. Designed to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus and to provide a safe-as-possible dining-out experience, many of the new restaurant supplies on the market today are being grabbed up by businesses large and small alike.
What’s on the menu these days? Capitalizing on a proven business strategy, restaurateurs are buddying up with retail to help boost sales. From Coca Cola and 7UP to McDonald’s and Burger King, collaborations with clothing brands, sports companies, shoe retailers, and the worlds of beauty and cosmetics have created some of the most fruitful and lasting business partnerships in history. If you work in the food or beverage industry and want to increase your visibility, create excitement, and attract new customers, consider partnering with another company.
If you owned a restaurant or managed a take-out service over the past few years, and survived, chances are that you rose to the challenge by turning obstacles into opportunities. One recipe for success was creating a niche menu that appeals to your most frequent diners, giving them many flavorful and favor-filled reasons to come back for more.
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As restaurants around the world continue to struggle for survival amidst the COVID-19 crisis, hope is on the horizon for restaurant owners, chefs, and other foodservice providers. The industry has already demonstrated its resounding resolve, transforming entire business models and modes of operations practically overnight. And, as the concepts of ‘dining out’ and ‘dining in’ continue to be redefined, restaurateurs are now re-examining their marketing strategies with the goal of attracting consumers and boosting sales despite the pandemic.
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Drive-thru restaurants, a pure Americana tradition from the 1950s, have been making a comeback. Decades after reinvigorating the dining-out scene, the old-school paradigm is dominating once again. Only this time, rather than being the exclusive property of American fast-food joints, the take-out service has come to the fore as a champion of the foodservice industry overall. While the rise to fame over the past two years can be attributed to the pandemic, restaurant insiders claim that the drive-thru trend began long before – however, thanks to the pandemic, in the words of David Portalatin, NPD food industry advisor “we’ve really just fast-forwarded years into the future in a very short period of time…” . Continue reading on drive-thru restaurants →
If you manage or own a restaurant, it’s time to update your menu with some immune-boosting ingredients. Today more than ever, diners are interested in their physical health and will pay top dollar for foods and beverages that help fight infection and strengthen their resistance to disease. Once these items are integrated into your menu, diners may not even realize the enormous benefits they will be getting from dining out in your restaurant.
Good News for Restaurant Owners: After being jarringly disrupted and almost devastated by the coronavirus, the restaurant industry is gearing up for a comeback. Corona exit strategies for restaurants are being formulated even while mandatory shutdowns and restrictions due to the COVID-19 pandemic continue. Given that different parts of the country are at varying stages of corona, each states timetable for opening up will differ. Nevertheless, expect a gradual, phased exit scenario that allows customers to begin visiting your business again and eventually, dine in. Continue reading on reopening your business post COVID-19 →
If you work in foodservice and are wondering what the future of the industry will look like, here is what some experts are forecasting. In their crystal ball, a proliferation of new automated services are on the horizon for restaurants, paving the way for a new landscape in the short term and possibly a ‘new normal’ going forward.