Denny’s recently added new healthy and low calorie options to their menu of classic breakfast and brunch foods. The new Fit Fare meals focus on high protein and fiber combined with lower calorie counts and less fat. The Fit Slam offers a great alternative meal with turkey bacon and scrambled egg whites for a meal with less than 550 calories.
Specialty burger shops that focus on high quality meat or gourmet toppings sprung up as an alternative to fast food chains. However, the market for better burgers is slowly becoming saturated as new chains open each week. These chains do offer small differences and specialties, but most of them are competing directly with each other as well as with giants like Burger King.
Rocky Aoki, the founder who built the Benihana restaurant chain after arriving in the country at 19, found great success as an immigrant business owner. Sabah Liddawyeh also entered the country as a young bride, but after her marriage ended and a college education she found success as the general manager of the Benihana in Milwaukee.
Unger Enterprises already sells cleaning products and equipment used for cleaning restaurant windows, but now they’ve developed new tools specifically for restaurant cleaning. A new oven hood cleaning system makes the chore much easier, and the griddle cleaning kits ensure all employees leave the griddles spotless at the end of a shift.
Any restaurant, whether it is a tiny individual location or part of a massive chain, can utilize social media as an effective marketing tool. Building a community of guests on a platform like Facebook makes people feel connected. Follow this up by listening to what your customers are saying, then offer special contests and promotions to keep people interested.
Food trucks have already become an important part of the culinary scenes of large metros like New York and Los Angeles, but smaller cities are now seeing a rise in them as well. Louisville is embracing the food truck concept quickly. Converted trucks and vans like the Morels mobile food service deliver top quality foods to customers all across the city.
Abuelo’s Mexican restaurants already offers top quality wood-grilled fajitas, but now they’re being improved just in time for summer. New meat options, fresher vegetables and a greater amount of customization will help customers enjoy their fajita meal even more. Limited time fajita options like Fajitas Pescado are available from now until August 8th.
Nello Cucina, the award winning Italian restaurant in Costa Mesa, is releasing their annual summer menu as summer officially begins. New summer dishes will include Tagliata di Manzo and Farfalle al Salmone Affumicato. A line of light sandwiches, wraps and salads is being added as well for lunch or as an alternative to a full dinner.
Dickey’s Barbecue Pit continues to be the country’s largest barbecue chain because of its strong commitment to expansion. As part of this the chain will soon be opening another restaurant in Allentown, Pennsylvania. This is the town’s first location and is being opened by new franchisee owners Tony Trinchere and his wife Renee.
Cracker Barrel has added a new member to their Board of Directors. Coleman Peterson was elected by the other directors and brings the total number of board members to 10. He’s served as the vice president of human resources for Walmart and joins Cracker Barrel after his retirement from the company.