Flavor Trends, Strategies and Solutions for Menu Development

Author: Flavor & The Menu Staff

Warming Up Winter Creative takes on classic cold-weather cocktails

Nothing warms the cockles like a hot buttered rum, Irish coffee or mulled wine. As the temperatures drop, opportunities arise to upgrade the classics, employing on-trend flavor and formatting touches. Here are eight versions that turn up the heat on cold-weather classics.

Soup Season Lean into the plant-forward movement through soup innovation

There’s no beating soup’s comfort-food credibility. It’s also a menu workhorse, adapting beautifully to seasonality and trending flavors and ingredients. With its fantastic profit potential, it’s worth exploring how to up your soup game, tapping into the plant-forward trend in rich, satisfying ways. Here are building blocks to develop a modern, plant-forward soup.

5 Hot Sauces to Watch Who’s ready for the next hot sauce?

Who’s ready for the next hot sauce? We’ve compiled a list of five new heat sources that are catching fire — some of them with just a slow burn at the beginning. Each offers a first-to-market opportunity for differentiated heat sources.