Category Archives: Opinion

Have a “Great Gatsby” Dinner

By Jack | Published May 10, 2013

Anyone else excited for the release of the “Great Gatsby” this weekend?  Well, we sure are. Much has changed in restaurant menuing since the 20′s. Just look at an example: So, in the spirit of the roaring 20′s we wanted to share some dinner ideas sure to make anyone feel like a regular Jay Gatsby. [...]

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A Glance at Indian Restaurants in the US

By Benjamin | Published April 18, 2013

Asian American communities have emerged as the fastest growing ethnic communities in the last decade, according to the US Census Bureau. Asian population increased more than four times faster than the total US population, growing by 43% from 10.2 million to 14.7 million with Indian Americans being the third largest Asian American community with 3.2 [...]

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Influential in Food: Bret Thorn of Nation’s Restaurant News

By Jack | Published April 16, 2013

There are many people who have become influential in our food system, and each and everyone of them has wisdom to share and an interesting story to tell.

This past Monday (April 15th) we sat down with Bret Thorn, Senior Editor at Nation’s Restaurant News. Bret covers anything newsworthy in the industry from features on small independent operators to overarching foodservice trends. We appreciate Bret taking the time to sit down with us and answer some questions we had for him.  Bret had a lot of great input for us and we appreciated hearing his thoughts on some of his favorite subjects – the origin of food, locally grown food, and Asian Cuisine.

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Food Innovations: Will this New Substitute Scramble the Egg Market?

By Benjamin | Published April 3, 2013

In our “Food Innovations” series, we highlight new and emerging business’, people, ideas, and products that we feel are disruptive to the foodservice industry as a whole. Topics are meant to inform our readers of new topics. Any opinions expressed are those of the interviewees and do not necessarily reflect the position of Food Genius. – According [...]

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McDonald’s Menu Flashback

By Benjamin | Published March 20, 2013

There has been a lot of action and innovation in the McDonald’s Menu as of late. In our last blog post we highlighted McDonald’s announcement to launch new menu offerings for the spring McDonald’s to launch new spring menu offerings Premium McWraps, egg-white McMuffin, blueberry-pomegranate smoothie to debut this spring.  McDonald’s Corp. has confirmed the launch dates of several [...]

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Building Customer Trust Through Insights

By Justin | Published March 18, 2013

Since the launch of Food Genius Reports in January, we’ve been engaging with our existing and prospective customers to better understand their specific use cases and how our tools might improve to better meet their needs. We’ve received some fantastic feedback, and much of it has been consistent – nearly everyone has requested a deeper [...]

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Stop the “Protect IP Act”

By Justin | Published November 15, 2011

The Protect IP Act, currently in the House and Senate, would make it nearly impossible for Food Genius to operate and would kill hundreds (thousands?) of websites that you use every day. We contacted Sen. Dick Durbin from our home state of Illinois, a co-sponsor of the bill, to urge him to change his mind. [...]

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Great Pumpkin Dishes to try for Halloween

By Keidra | Published October 31, 2011

Heh. “Great Pumpkin.” Get it? If you’re looking to get into the Halloween spirit for dinner this evening (or you are just a big fan of pumpkin in general) here are several dishes you can try tonight: Uncommon Ground’s (3800 N. Clark) Pumpkin Ravioli  is a longtime fall favorite, It includes sage brown butter, gorgonzola and [...]

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The End of Takeout Menus?

By Keidra | Published October 20, 2011

Last week, The Daily Meal’s Arthur Bovino declared the end of the paper takeout menu with a provocative post: “New Yorkers, you want Grand Sichuan. You want to be sure you can get “Pork Soup Dumpling” at a moment’s notice. Sure, that big maroon “Zagat Rated” box at the top of the menu makes it seem [...]

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