Want to SPICE up your menu without impacting your food cost?
Adding spicy options without changing your menu is not as hard as you would think. As the popularity of spicy continues to accelerate not only here in the US, but is becoming a global phenomenon, many restauranters struggle with the common issue; do I add a spicy dish to my menu? How hot do I make it? If I make it too hot, will it scare off my regular customers because it’s just too spicy?
Incorporating a new dish to your menu comes with a lot of research and proper food costing to ensure not only the dish, but the restaurant maintains profitability, you are a business and here to make money and provide for your families after all.
If you stay abreast of food trends and watch what is trending and popular in the industry, you can’t help but notice, especially in the big chain restaurants, there have been many, and they continue to come out with new spiced up food items. Typically, they run them for a limited time or in a limited release timeframe and they market it heavily. With all that being said, here is an option for you, something that won’t take recipe development and adjusting your menu. Providing a variety of hot sauces can achieve that.
A solid variety of hot sauce offerings are an easy way to provide multiple heat level options to your customers who can simply add what they want, their desired heat level, to your already in place menu options. This simply gives you the opportunity to stay current with this specific very popular food trend, provides an added fun dining experience and increased engagement to your restaurant overall.