Restaurants urged to use flavor
May 23rd, 2008 by Cliff Bostock in Events, Food & Life
This just in from the National Restaurant Association’s 89th annual show:
There are three important features a foodservice menu must emphasize to be successful in today’s market: freshness, flavor and health. This is according to Nancy Kruse, a menu trends analyst and president of The Kruse Company in Atlanta, who led an educational session Monday at the National Restaurant Association’s 89th annual Restaurant, Hotel-Motel show.
“If you cannot deliver on the big three, I cannot imagine that you could stay in business and thrive for very long,” she said.
Doesn’t this leave you wondering what the industry’s priorities were before “freshness, flavor and health” came on the scene?
In other heartening news from the convention, held in Chicago May 17-20, John McCain addressed the group on Monday. The Chicago Sun-Times reports:
Apron-wearing anti-war protesters disrupted Republican presidential candidate John McCain’s speech to the National Restaurant Association Monday.
To the tune of “I’ve been working on the railroad,” they sang, “McCain’s in the kitchen with George Bush, cooking up another war” and unfurled red banners.
As they were escorted out of McCormick Place, McCain said, “The important thing in America is we have the right to free speech.”
Although Barack Obama calls Chicago home, he apparently was not invited to address the convention, despite his much maligned fondness for the freshness, flavor and health of arugula.
(Image from icanhascheezburger.com.)
May 24th, 2008 at 9:34 am
Love the “LOL Cat” / icanhascheezburger shot. That is a great site.
May 28th, 2008 at 3:48 pm
I can’t help but smile when I think of what the “Taco Nazi” is going to be up against trying to impose his sense of order on the multitude of college students who are going to swarm the Athens location.
He doesn’t like families bringing their children to the Decatur location because its too disruptive? That’s nothing compared to what he is about to face. His head may explode.