Published December 29, 2015

Bitter is the Next Flavor Frontier

Culinary consumers are showing a greater willingness to be challenged of late, and restaurants are taking advantage by filling their menus with bold flavors. Salty, spicy and sour have all became popular in recent years, but the newest flavor trend on American menus is bitter. Bitter first became popular in the beverage world, with cocktail […]

Published December 28, 2015

Grants Are Available for World-Beating Female Chefs

The James Beard Foundation is sponsoring 22 grants for ambitious female chef/restaurateurs to be trained by top-tier chefs for a year with all their living expenses paid. This program is a great effort to reduce the gender gap in kitchens, which will be good for everyone who works in the restaurant industry.

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What’s Behind the Resistance to Digital POS Systems

Many restaurants are embracing digital point-of-sale technology but a recent study showed that 63 percent of restaurants still don’t use digital POS systems. Justin Guinn, a restaurant researcher at Software Advice, says that the number one reason restaurant owners give for not switching to digital is cost. However, digital POS systems are now much more […]

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Change Up Your Winter Root Veggie Game

Carrots, beets and potatoes are still the most popular winter root vegetables, but more eccentric offerings are starting to show up on cold-weather restaurant menus. Celeriac, turnips and parsnips are helping break up the monotony of the winter root season with unfamiliar flavors and fun textures. Celeriac in particular is great because the whole plant, […]

Published December 24, 2015

The 5 Most Notorious Marketing Campaigns of 2015

Many restaurant marketing campaigns caused a stir online this year, for good and bad. Burger King scored a major coup with their Peace Day collaborative burger, but Carl’s Jr. received criticism for its racy commercials.

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Yum! Raises Over Half a Billion to Fight Hunger

Yum! Brands, the company behind KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell, has been running a philanthropic program called World Hunger Relief since 2007. The company announced that this program has raised $640 million to feed needy global citizens since its inception. Yum! also recently created a sister program called the Feed the World Ambassador Program […]

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Restaurants Open This December 25th

Although Christmas is a holiday traditionally spent at home, many Americans will have reasons to leave the house to eat this December 25th. Of course, those who don’t celebrate Christmas will appreciate having restaurant options open on the holiday, and even many of those who do celebrate Christmas won’t feel like cooking after opening presents. […]

Published December 23, 2015

Making Philanthropy Work at Your Restaurant

’Tis the season for holiday giving, and if you haven’t set up a philanthropic arm of your business it’s time to think about getting that done. Giving back to the community helps you earn some major goodwill from your customer base, and it’ll make you feel good about your business too.

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Bringing Supply Ordering Into the 21st Century

Improvements in restaurant technology have focused for the most part on the front of the house, with reservation and payment systems benefitting from updated tech. Two MBA students from Georgetown noticed that supply ordering had not been updated in the same way, so they created a supply ordering platform called BlueCart that lets chefs and […]

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The Best Restaurant Takedowns of 2015

Normally, it can be kind of sad to read a bad review of a restaurant. Most restaurants are created and run by well-intentioned people who are just trying to serve people good food. Sometimes, though, a restaurant is so fantastically ill-conceived and willfully terrible that it just needs to be taken down a peg. The […]

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