Duck sauce is a classic accompaniment to spring rolls, egg rolls, and other fried foods in Westernized Chinese cuisine. It’s a sweet-and-sour sauce made with fruit such as plum, apricot, peaches, or pineapple, plus vinegar and a little chile...
Salsa roja, meaning simply “red salsa” in Spanish, is growing on menus as consumers crave more Latin flavors but also more authenticity in dishes from different cultures...
Yelp’s State of the Restaurant Industry Report indicates staggering growth in pop-up restaurants, despite a return to relative normalcy.
Ranch water, a refreshing blend of tequila, lime, and sparkling water, is believed to have originated in Texas in the 1960s but has only recently gained huge popularity nationwide thanks to consumers' increasing love of tequila (now the top...
The industry is better positioned for a downturn than it has been in the past because of increased access to consumer data.
Shoestring fries are appearing on more menus because they’re adaptable and provide nostalgia for consumers, who either remember grabbing some thin and crispy fries with a burger as they rose in popularity in the 1950s and ’60s, or more likely pine...
Younger consumers are driving off-premises alcohol stickiness; over 40% of Gen Z and millennial consumers included an alcohol beverage with their takeout or delivery order in the last 6 months.
Kombucha, a tea that’s fermented with a combination of bacteria and yeast, always contains at least a little bit of alcohol that’s produced as part of the fermentation process, usually 0.5% alcohol by volume or less. But harder versions of this...
