Trending Now: Burrata and Fruits

Trending Now: More fruits items are now on the menu.
Fast casual restuarants are seeing and responding to the increased demand for fresher and healthier food items

Trending Now: Burrata, a new type of cheese that consists of a punch of mozzarella surrounding cream and mozzarella shreds. This is just one of the types of cheese fillings fromagers are incorporating into their cheese-making strategy.
The New York Times highlights fromagers such as Maplebrook Fine Cheese in Vermont who are testing out new ways of making cheese to intensify the flavor

https://paigepapers.com/2011/09/29/trendingnowburrataandfruits/

New dayparts with interesting names

Dayparts for menu items get a major revamp.
Welcome Linner, Brinner, and Slunch to the daypart family. More restaurateurs are changing up their menu items to focus on unconventional dayparts to accomodate new consumer eating habits

https://paigepapers.com/2011/09/29/newdayparts_brinner/

Peruvian dishes are in style

Trending Now: The world introduces Peru.
Increase interest in Peruvian dishes are gaining ground

https://paigepapers.com/2011/09/14/peruviandishestrending/

The changing dining scene in New York City

The restaurant landscape is changing rapidly in New York as more international restaurateurs are making their mark here.
New York will become home to several fine dining restaurants in the next few months, but as quoted from our good friend Stephen Zagor, Director of Management at the Institute of Culinary Education, “…[New York] has become an international gold standard, because if you put a restaurant here, you’ve established a flagship”

https://paigepapers.com/2011/09/07/newyorkcitydiningscenechanges/

September 2011 Food Trends

Specialty Food magazine highlights September 2011 trends
Techno retailing, new shellfish called “Percebes”, and growth in children’s food are just some of the trends making the list this month

https://paigepapers.com/2011/09/06/specilatyfoodseptember2011/

Trending Now: Asian Grocers

Asian Groceries growing in New York.
News of M2M’s expansion comes after the opening of the Asian Eataly in Flushing, Queens called SkyFoods

https://paigepapers.com/2011/08/29/asiangrocerstrend/

Hot dogs are the new burger

More and more operators are skipping over burger concepts and turning to hot dogs
National Restaurant News reports that hot dogs concepts are on the rise

https://paigepapers.com/2011/08/29/hotdogsarethe_new_burger/

Nation chicken coops

Chicken coops aren’t just a New York City trend.
More people are tending to chickens as Seattle Tilth , an environmental-education nonprofit, highlighted that in July 47 host families volunteered to show-off their coops for tours– up from 29 last year.

https://paigepapers.com/2011/08/23/nationalchickencoop/