Food

Food trends and recipes to keep menus fresh

Food

Popeyes, Cicis and Elevation Burger riff on flavor

Taste Tracker: Ruth’s Chris pairs up favorites; Newk’s menu gets meatier; bundles for football fans at Bar Louie; and more menu news of the week.

Food

Want to power menu profits? Take a hard look at your recipes

Recipe documentation is key to menu profitability. It factors ingredients, labor, yields and waste into pricing. Food costs alone no longer cut it.

The chef-owner of Hmong Union Kitchen in Minneapolis tells the story about this food movement through his cooking, podcasts, TV shows and more.

The chain is adding a handful of trendy new apps like truffle tot-chos and a margarita shrimp cocktail as it continues a revitalization effort.

Behind the Menu: The better burger chain shifted to these more sustainable sources, pledging to expand the initiative chainwide and on the menu.

Kentucky Fried Chicken Wraps return as an LTO, joined by a new KFC Mac & Cheese Wrap and family-sized fudgy brownies.

New menu items and long-running signatures welcome sports and concert fans for the 2023-24 season.

As operators continue to deal with labor challenges, speed-scratch ingredients can help save time and labor while making menu expansion easy.

The fast casual collaborated with Sesame Street to create a selection of healthy items for 4-12 year-olds.

Taste Tracker: Black Tap does a spooky shake; Wayback gets ghoulish with burgers; Jack-O-Lanterns glow at Paris Baguette and Papa Murphy’s; and lots more frightening menu news.

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