What to Avoid You’ve done your research, negotiated costs, picked a venue, planned and organized the party timeline and sent out invitations for the big event – phew, the last step is to plan the menu. You probably have a good idea of how to make the menu stand out, and what your guests will [...]
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What’s Hot: Food Trends for 2013
What’s Hot? The National Restaurant Association surveyed over 1,800 professional chefs to uncover hot food trends for 2013. By a long shot, locally sourced/grown foods top the charts with healthful kids’ meals not far behind. Other hot trends include new cuts of meat (e.g. Denver steak, pork flat iron, teres major), ethnic breakfast items (e.g. [...]

What’s Popular Right Now: 2013 Inventive Catering Trends
Catering involves an immense amount of preparation and planning – there is pressure, tight timelines and long days. Between all of the commotion, caterers have to find a way to stay on top and beat industry competition. We’ve laid out three popular trends going into 2013. Knowing what your customers want ahead of time is going to [...]

Molecular Gastronomy: Making science, food and eating fun!
Have you heard of molecular gastronomy before? No? You’re not alone, molecular gastronomy is a modern style of cooking, and practiced by scientists and chefs who take advantage of many technical innovations from scientific disciplines. Put more simply, think of mixing up drinks like Nitrogen Cooled Lemon Drop Martinis. Or whipping up Crispy Chicken Tacos [...]

The Rise of Healthy Kids Meal Options
Restaurants focus on developing healthy kid meal options that are more appealing to families. Pizza, hot dogs, chicken fingers and grilled cheeses are just a few kid-friendly foods available when eating out. Recently, these are the same foods that have come under scrutiny from parents and nutritional experts who worry about what kids are eating. [...]

The Affordable Health Care Act: What Restaurateurs Really Think
Add Your Voice! Take Tundra’s Health Care Act Survey Now! Food service industry advocates have long opposed the Affordable Health Care Act (aka Obamacare) since its passage in 2010. Among those the National Restaurant Association (NRA) is the largest and most vocal opponent of the law, in particular the provision of the bill that requires [...]

Tap into Better Drink Service with Keg Cocktails
Busy nights at a restaurant bar can be hectic. The chaotic atmosphere will test your bartenders’ skill and your customer’s patience. Cocktail orders and other hand-crafted concoctions act as roadblocks in the bartender’s effort to keep up with the barrage of incoming drink requests. These specialty drinks require more time and effort for the server [...]

The Affordable Health Care Act & Restaurants: What To Expect
Today is the big day – the day the Supreme Court begins hearings on the constitutionality of the Affordable Health Care Act, aka Obamacare. Many want to see the whole thing repealed, many want to see the whole thing left intact, and most aren’t really all that sure what the whole thing entails besides an [...]

Chef Lon Symensma Nominated For Food & Wine’s People’s Choice Award
Vote For Chef Lon here! Chef Lon Symensma has a serious culinary pedigree. That’s why Denver foodies were extremely excited when he decided to partner with Culinary Institute of America classmate Alicia Deters to create ChoLon, his first restaurant, ChoLon, in the LoDo area of downtown Denver. After stints at Buddakan & Spice Market in [...]

50 Restaurant Resolutions For A Sucessful 2012
If ever there was a good time to make some positive changes to your restaurant’s operation, now is that time. An okay year is ending after a couple bad years and next year looks just about as good as can be expected. Now is the time to kick things up a notch and really go [...]
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