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2025 F&B Trends: Newstalgia, Stealth Health, and Botanical Beverages

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From salted egg yolks and chili crunch fusions to mushroom-infused teas and freeze-dried fruit powder garnishes, Kimpton’s in-house experts share the standout ingredients, menu items and techniques that will come to the table in 2025. That’s where the NEXT Flavor Report comes in.

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How to Find the Target Market for Your Restaurant

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Understanding your target market is the foundation of making smart decisions for your menu, pricing, and overall guest experience. Without a well-defined target market, restaurants risk wasting resources on strategies that dont connect and menu offerings that dont selltrying to appeal to everyone, but standing out to no one.

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What Is Huitlacoche — And Why Aren’t U.S. Diners Eating More of It?

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The contagion is usually brought forth by annual rainy seasons and results in bulbous, blue-gray growths that deform maize kernels into Frankenstein-esque galls. Like in Aztec times, a natural bout of huitlacoche symbolizes bounty: delicious food, higher profits, and a successful harvesting season.

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An Eater’s Guide to Whistler, British Columbia

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Tourism Whistler/Justa Jeskova. Menus brim with callouts to potatoes from the neighboring Pemberton Valley (reputedly some of the world’s best), oysters from British Columbia’s Fanny Bay and Desolation Sound, and wines from around the province. The glow of nightlife in Whistler. Prices are high and lines tend to get long, though.

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On the Thailand-Malaysia Border, Food Defies Nations

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Like the majority-Muslim community in Malaysia and southern Thailand, Sarin cooks halal food, combining versions of Thailand’s greatest hits like pad kaprao and pad thai with southern Thai favorites gaeng som and grilled prawns; the menu attracts a crowd of borderland locals, but it might not make much sense to someone from Kuala Lumpur or Bangkok.

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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-December 2020 Edition

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The 2020 holiday season may not offer the same gatherings, parties and hoopla of years’ past, but diners are making sure it is still filled with amazing food. In addition to gift cards, consumers are looking to bring their favorite restaurant faire to friends and family this holiday season. Diners Show Holiday Spirit.

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MRM Research Roundup: Holiday Edition

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“They’ve had to basically adapt and change their entire business model,” says Yang Yang, an associate professor in the School of Sport, Tourism and Hospitality Management (STHM) at Temple University. Asia Center for Tourism and Hospitality Research, the road to recovery could still be a long one. The Big Value Shift.