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Top Menu Trends for 2011
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
The National Restaurant Association’s “What’s Hot” survey of more than 1,500 professional chefs—members of the American Culinary Federation (ACF)—reveals that local and hyper-local sourcing, healthy children’s meals, sustainable seafood, and gluten-free cuisine will be among the hottest trends on restaurant menus in 2011. In addition, the chefs said that mobile food trucks and pop-up restaurants [...]
Continue reading...Chefs Name Gardens Top Restaurant Trend of 2010
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Gardens have been named the hottest trend in restaurants this year as more chefs involved with the eat local food movement decide to grow their own tomatoes, herbs and other produce. A third of the 2,000 chefs surveyed by the National Restaurant Association named gardens the top trend. Chris Moyer, who leads sustainability programs for [...]
Continue reading...USDA Demystifies Local Food Chain Supply
Friday, June 25, 2010
Local food is a hot trend that customers continue to demand from all restaurant segments. But until recently, the movement was so small and compartmentalized, that it was hard for some chains to find purveyors that could adequately meet their foodsupply needs. Now the USDA has issued a report on the logistics of moving local foods from farms to consumers, which could help restaurants and foodservice companies understand the dynamics of farmers that participate in local food supply chains, versus mainstream chains.
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Monday, March 14, 2011
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