Over the past year we have compiled many of our favorite recipes across the internet to help lend inspiration for improving restaurant menus.  Keeping your menu fresh is essential to success in the restaurant industry.  Here is the full collection of our favorite recipes, click the headings to view our seasonal favorites.

3 Spicy Dishes To Heat Up Your Winter Menu

While keeping your traditional dishes center stage, it may be a good idea to add a few winter favorites to heat up your menu.  Constantly evolving your offerings to meet the ever developing American pallet is essential to restaurant success.  Using seasonal menu items to test the waters and see what works for your customer base will help you to evolve while keeping costs lower.  It also provides an opportunity for your chefs to get creative and develop new signature items. 

3 Winter Menu Items To Keep Your Customers Warm

With cold days upon us, customers will be flocking to restaurants for something to warm them up.  While keeping your traditional dishes center stage it may be a good idea to add a few winter favorites to heat up your menu.  Constantly evolving your offerings to meet the ever developing American pallet is essential to restaurant success.  Using seasonal menu items to test the waters and see what works for your customer base will help you to evolve while keeping costs lower.  It also provides an opportunity for your chefs to get creative and develop new signature items.

Holiday Cocktail Recipes For Your Liquor Store, Restaurant Or Bar

Whether you own a liquor store, bar or restaurant, cocktails should be central to your holiday business plan. Promoting original recipes or classic festive holiday drinks will help to bring in additional revenue.  In a liquor store setting, providing samples of these drinks to customers will expose them to new tastes and even make them nostalgic over old favorites.  Be sure to provide recipe cards and a list of products needed to create them.  In a restaurant or bar, creating colorful menus that show off these seasonal items will catch your customer’s eye and encourage them to indulge.

3 Great Gluten Free Dishes To Add To Your Menu

With gluten free products starting to gain in quality and popularity, it’s important that your restaurant has a few options for those with gluten allergies.  Others prefer these types of dishes as a means of maintaining digestive health.  While gluten free recipes tend to have a bad reputation as far as taste and texture is concerned, there are many ways around this.  The rise in allergy awareness and the subsequent uptick in companies creating gluten free products has helped the quality significantly.  Many restaurants are struggling with how to adopt this trend into their menu.

Five Fantastic Fall Appetizers To Freshen Up Your Menu

In the restaurant industry it’s important to change with the seasons. Freshen up your menu with these delicious fall favorites appetizers.  Advertising seasonal menus during holiday events and through social media can mean a boost in sales.  The change in seasons offers an opportunity to experiment with new menu items to see what may become a part of your permanent menu. 

3 Great Summer Appetizer Ideas to Increase Restaurant Revenue

Here are some great summer appetizer recipes you can use to freshen up your menu this season.  As always, adding your own personal touch to make the recipe yours is a great way to plate truly unique food items and increase restaurant revenue!

4 Great Drink Recipes to Upgrade Your Summer Drink Menu

With the warm weather starting to come about, cool refreshing drinks are taking center stage at restaurants and bars across the country.  These types of drinks can be a big draw for customers and provide you with a boost to your traditional revenue.  Having a variety of unique drink offerings adds pizzazz and flavor to your menu.  It is important that you have a substantial offering of alcoholic and non-alcoholic summer beverages.  Coming up with your own creations is a great way to make your menu stand out, here's a start just add your personal touch.

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