Last week, in the midst of the Ig Nobel EuroTour, we encounter this item—item #1— on a menu in a restaurant in Frankfurt, Germany: Our colleague Merry (“Corky”) White, a food anthropologist based at Boston University, tracked down an explanation of the most colorful named ingredient—gunpowder. The explanation, written by Priyadarshini Nanda, appeared in the […]
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Menu Engineer
QUESTION: Who is a menu engineer, and what is menu education? ANSWER: Gregg Rapp, and the education delivered by Gregg Rapp, specifically: A full day of education from Gregg. Menu engineering. Menu Design. Menu trends. Tools for profitability. Menu promotions. Customer profiling. Menu allowance programs. Includes lunch, breaks, and all materials. CONTROVERSY: However, Wikipedia claims […]