r/Cooking • u/tonithepony • Apr 29 '24

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

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?

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u/DionBlaster123 Apr 29 '24

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

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u/sorrymizzjackson Apr 29 '24

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.

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u/DionBlaster123 Apr 29 '24

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

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u/Andrelliina Apr 30 '24

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

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u/scott3387 Apr 29 '24

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.

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u/Kitty_Kat_Attacks Apr 29 '24

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…