Foodservice Insights

Tips to keep your menu fresh and exciting

Today consumers want it all: great service, competitive prices and unique, flavorful foods. In short, they want a memorable dining experience. So what can you do to win your share of the food dollar? Keep the following in mind:

• Healthy food options
• Grab-and-go meals
• Around the clock offerings
• Take the best and make it yours

Healthy whole grains
While the trend toward healthier eating is not new, it continues to grow. These days, people are actively searching for healthier food choices when they dine out, a trend that’s driving many states to pass legislation mandating restaurants to put nutrition information on their menus.

Growing obesity rates among children are reaching epidemic proportions, an issue prompting school foodservice operations to re-examine their food programs. Adult obesity is also on the rise, creating a hot-button issue in media and politics as Americans grapple with how to deal with this public health threat.

People have grown increasingly aware of the positive role whole grains can play in a healthy diet. Incorporating more whole grain breads, buns and rolls into your menu is an easy way to help the people who dine at your establishment achieve the USDA-recommended three servings of whole grains per day.

Baker Boy has a wide selection of baked goods that provide a good or excellent source of whole grains. We have several options made with white whole wheat, perfect for schools and healthcare facilities that want to offer the benefits of whole grains in baked goods that retain more of the taste and texture of white flour.  Whatever your menu needs, Baker Boy’s whole grain products provide the great taste and nutrition your guests, students and residents are looking for.

Grab-and-go meals
Today’s time-crunched consumers continue to look outside the home for convenient yet high-quality meal options. Whether they’re making a quick stop for breakfast on the way to work, grabbing a sandwich over lunch or buying dinner-to-go for the family at the end of the day, these customers expect good quality for their money.

Baker Boy offers a wide array of fresh and flavorful products to help you appeal to the grab-and-go crowd. Try our hoagies, subs, biscuits and croissants as delicious sandwich carriers, or explore our breads, rolls and breadsticks as convenient complements to takeout soups and salads. And, our premium cookies and irresistible muffins are ideal handheld options to tempt your customer’s sweet side. You can trust Baker Boy for all the quick-prep bakery favorites to build your grab-and-go sales.

Around the clock offerings
Consumers’ lives are more complicated and busier than ever these days, creating a 24/7 dining cycle. People now eat at all hours of the day and night. As a result, the standard breakfast, lunch and dinner meal periods are morphing as consumers want and demand any meal, any time of day.

Labor-saving Baker Boy products make it easy to offer fresh and delicious baked goods to satisfy people’s appetites morning, noon and night. Whether you’re serving pizza at breakfast or Cinnamon Roll Sundaes for dessert, you can count on Baker Boy for the quality, variety and consistent performance your guests expect.

Choose from labor-saving doughs, quick partially finished items, or ready-to-serve fully finished products. Our convenient forms enable you to thaw and use only what you need, so you can react fast to unexpected demand, without waste.

Take the best and make it yours
Imitation is the greatest form of flattery. So, it’s important to observe what’s happening in other industries and then take the best and make it work for your operation. For example, new high-end restaurants are always on the cutting edge of flavors, forms and plating. You can also learn about tomorrow’s next trends today by watching the Food Network or The Learning Channel (TLC) and network television. Some of the most popular shows on the air focus on food and celebrity chefs.

So go ahead and experiment – there’s no reason not to use your imagination and develop your own unique products. Baker Boy can help. For example, you can use Baker Boy’s tender buns, flaky rolls and rich croissants to create signature sandwich concepts, add interest to bread baskets or to complement soups, salads, take-out items and dinner entrees.