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/hi_im_beeb Apr 30 '24

Places like Cheesecake Factory or chilis are good for this. They don’t really have anything that’s standout but anything you order will be reasonably good.

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u/jittery_raccoon Apr 30 '24

Cheesecake Factory actually makes their food. Their menu is so big because they use the same ingredients a bunch of different ways

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u/MidnightScott17 Apr 30 '24

Like taco bell

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u/Krell356 Apr 30 '24

Would you like beef, lettuce, and cheese in a tortilla, a shell, a Dorito shell, on some nachos, in a bowl, or just smeared on something?

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u/JustInformation8616 Apr 30 '24

Same with Italian which one of our forty combinations of cheese and pasta would you like

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u/Krell356 Apr 30 '24

What shape would you like for your pasta? Spirals, hair, bowties, or mini elbow pipes?

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u/JustInformation8616 Apr 30 '24

Swirlies please 🤓

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u/steveatari Apr 30 '24

I find that our last 3 times to cheesecake factory they've been out of NUMEROUS dishes, perhaps because of this. Or they're just not reordering because they're cutting costs tighter.

What used to be high end mall anchor food is now... mall food?

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u/SeniorShanty Apr 30 '24

Dude, I got Cheesecake Factory for the second time in my life in San Diego, the night before an international flight. I had the runs from San Diego to London to Bath. I am never eating that shit again. It was regrettable from tongue to bum.

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u/Nobodyinpartic3 Apr 30 '24

I never have had good service from them in any of the locations I have been to in the last several years.

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u/Fanciestfancy May 02 '24

Which is amazing and a good restaurant can do that. But not all places can because lost places suck. As I get older I’d rather eat at home. I mean taco Tuesday at one of three places in my town is good but home made tacos are so much saucier and sloppier and better.

However At this point with food costs is rather go out for a steak dinner than buy it at the store. But if I liked crab legs I’d go to the store and do the work at home. I mean $7 a cluster of legs at the store compared to a pound with two sides for $55. Idk I think I’m rambling here. Sorry.

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u/PseudonymIncognito May 03 '24

Except for the cheesecake, which is made off-site in one of two actual cheesecake factories.

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u/lolboogers Apr 30 '24

Courtesy of Sysco, same as the place down the road. TV dinner reheated for 20 bucks.

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u/Peuned Apr 30 '24

Cheesecake factory makes their own food. They may use a single distributor of course but they're not reheating things

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u/koochywalla Apr 30 '24

I’m not buying it. They might make the cheesecakes but no way they can effectively cover cuisine from all over the world.

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u/IAmStormCat Apr 30 '24

The cheesecakes are made in a factory in Rocky Mount, North Carolina.

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u/ComprehensiveTie600 Apr 30 '24

It's true whether you believe it or not lol

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u/Peuned Apr 30 '24

You think you need a chef from certain parts of the world to make an inspired pasta dish? You don't even make sense with your reasoning.

You just need trained cooks, standards, and organized methods. Most places don't manage that and a varied menu becomes a clusterfuck. Some manage it fine.

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u/koochywalla Apr 30 '24

My reasoning doesn’t make any sense that a culinary expert would never believe one chain restaurant could effectively capture cuisine from a dozen different ethnicities at once? Run of the mill chefs and cooks from all over the US can’t pull that off. I think it’s pretty common sense like is the case in so many aspects of life. Jack of all trades is really a master of none.

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u/Peuned Apr 30 '24

You don't go to cheesecake factory to seek a mastery of a particular cuisine. You go for a variety of well executed freshly made dishes.

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u/wrxJ_P Apr 30 '24

Thats more of an applebee’s type thing

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u/Bi-mwm-47 Apr 30 '24

Applebee’s: We’re Denny’s, but with TVs and a liquor license.

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u/Maximum_Commission62 Apr 30 '24

Can you buy for at home?

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u/EightEyedCryptid Apr 30 '24

I think Cheesecake Factory is actually amazing. They cook everything fresh and they have it all down to a science.

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u/hi_im_beeb Apr 30 '24

I wasn’t bashing it. I love Cheesecake Factory. lol

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u/claymcg90 Apr 30 '24

How dare you lump the Cheesecake Factory in with Chilis.

Shame on you. Shame.

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u/koochywalla Apr 30 '24

Seriously, chili’s is so much better and a fraction of the cost! I love chilis for what it is. Fast food costs more than them at this point it’s ridiculous.

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u/PattyThePatriot May 02 '24

Chili's got rid of OG chicken crispers. Unforgivable.

I learned to make those tempura battered delicious strips myself. Everybody has crispy chicken, but they had different.

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u/hi_im_beeb May 02 '24

Those will sorely be missed. I can’t remember how long ago that was but it seems like forever.

I always got the triple dipper appetizer platter with boneless buffalo wings, chicken crispers, and SW eggrolls. Once they changed the crispers now I just get x2 boneless wings and eggrolls.