As a culinary team, we got together with our editor to talk about innovation with pasta, and our favorite recipes for giving your guests the favorites they’ve been missing, without over-stretching your back-of-house teams. American diners are definitely still in love with Italian food, and even though they’ve been cooking up pasta dishes at home, […]
When diving into innovation, it’s always key to see what independent chefs are doing on the menu. We teamed up with the folks at Chefs Roll to help uncover some innovative pasta dishes and the stories behind them from all across the country. Let’s just say the results are delicious! And there’s inspiration for days […]
Hints of light at the end of the COVID tunnel are finally appearing for restaurants across the country. With restrictions being eased, we are seeing guests eager to spend their stimulus payments on what they’ve been missing most – dining out! [fast fact: food tops the list of categories consumers expect to increase spending on […]
We always look forward to what the trend experts at the leading market research firm Mintel have to say about what consumers will be looking for – and how restaurants should respond – in the year ahead. Mintel’s take focused on 4 major themes: “The Great Divide,” “Play with your Food,” “Restaurants Redefined,” and “Trust […]
We know operators have a LOT on their minds these days, with so many changes and challenges coming so fast. For all of you keeping those plates spinning, we put together a little video that’s fun and simple, and hopefully puts your mind at ease about how you’ll rise to the task, keeping your customers […]
We’re still tying up loose ends with our partners in Barilla National Pasta Month 749 operators participating in this our first year, across 49 states! From what we’ve seen so far, it looks very much like each one was a success. Operators had a reason to connect with customers and garner sales, consumers loved engaging […]
Trend predictions from the experts, usually flooding in around this time of year, are a bit slower this time around. We’re not surprised, at a time when so much about what the future will look like in 6 months time could be summed up with a (shrug emoji). That said, Technomic’s annual trend predictions are […]
At Barilla, health and sustainability are a core value that directs everything we do. As part of that focus, we are proud sponsors of the Culinary Institute of America’s Menus of Change (MOC) and Menus of Change University Research Collaborative (MCURC) programs, among others. MOC recently convened with a 6-week series of Zoom-style sessions and […]
Greetings from the Barilla Test Kitchen! Chef Yury Krasilovsky, Executive Chef of Foodservice with Barilla America here. Today, I want to show you a process for coming up with a new special or signature pasta dish. When you’re feeling stuck or just need a little kickstart to your creativity, I find this really helpful, and […]