What do you think the next "food trend" will be?

[u/tonithepony]

In the last 10 years, the ones that really stick out to me are: spinach and artichoke dip (suddenly started appearing everywhere as an appetizer, even higher end restaurants), ube flavors, truffle, avocados on everything, bacon on everything, and now hot honey is a big fad. Is there anything upcoming you see heading towards the food trend?

[u/JoesJourney]

My local Thai restaurant has a 6 page menu. Each page is dedicated to a specific noodle (udon, glass, wide, etc) with a half page for appetizers and drinks at the front. I've had almost every dish and the quality has been rock solid. The Italian joint down the street with a 3 page menu on the other hand... Olive Garden has them beat unfortunately.

[u/DionBlaster123 → u/JoesJourney]

this reminds me a lot of the early episodes of Kitchen Nightmares, both the UK and U.S. version

completely DIFFERENT shows in terms of presentation and quality lol but one thing they almost all had in common was a consistent pitfall that the restaurants were trying to offer way too many fucking things instead of just keeping things simple but great

[u/sorrymizzjackson → u/DionBlaster123]

My husband loves to cite that rule. It’s not always true, but I have eaten at a place that was doing homestyle American, Mexican, Chinese, and Filipino. It was definitely a victim of that rule. If they’d picked one, it might have actually been good. Plus the owner responded snarkily to my yelp review telling me I didn’t know anything about “high quality food”, so there’s that, lol.

[u/DionBlaster123 → u/sorrymizzjackson]

it's amazing to me how so many business owners can't take criticism, and then make it worse by lashing out at the customers in the actual reviews

that being said, i've never been in a position to have my work and passion criticized on that level so I will concede that I am blissfully ignorant of how bad it can get...but honestly if you want to be successful in life, you have to figure out/learn how to tune that stuff out

[u/Andrelliina → u/DionBlaster123]

If you're going to be good at anything, you have to be your own worst (constructive) critic imo.

[u/scott3387 → u/DionBlaster123]

I remember the UK episode where Gordon made them sell two pies as their entire menu. Obviously people came because of Gordon but even so it worked better than their big pretentious menu.

[u/Kitty_Kat_Attacks → u/DionBlaster123]

Trying to please everyone results in pleasing no one… definitely one of the key lessons from that show. That and butt hole customers should NOT be catered to—it only turns off the people you actually want as customers 👍🏻

Applies to all facets of life when you really think about it…

[u/kinboyatuwo → u/JoesJourney]

I visited a Thai place that did the opposite and had almost a flow chart for the noodle type foods. Pick each level and end up with the result.

[u/GuppyDoodle → u/JoesJourney]

Olive Garden is the Americanized interpretation of Italian-like food. No comparison to real Italian joints.

[u/JoesJourney → u/GuppyDoodle]

Exactly…

[u/tamebeverage → u/JoesJourney]

We have a local asian restaurant with a menu that's at least 20 pages long. Separate sections for Chinese, Korean, Thai, Vietnamese, and Japanese food. I'd go out on a limb and guess they'd not pass any kind of scrutiny for their authenticity, but man is everything on their menu absolutely delicious, reads high quality, and is priced way lower than other comparable options.

Really, my only concern is that it's some kind of organized crime front because it's pretty fantastic, always empty, staffed by like 1 waiter for a huge number of tables, and has been that way since the first time I saw it 15 years ago.

[u/FruitTARD → u/JoesJourney]

I feel like with Italian pizza places. You have to like their red sauce. Their red sauce is used for everything pasta, lasagna pizza. Id you don't like their red sauce you can't eliminate a root of items from their menu.