In today’s marketplace it isn’t easy to be the owner of a restaurant. With every turn it seems like there are new regulations, new health suggestions, and a host of other voices telling you the proper way to cook your food. It is getting harder and harder to find the balance between delivering healthy fried foods and delivering maximum taste. Add to it that patrons have made it perfectly clear they are not going to sacrifice taste just because the Government or some health agency is mandating or demanding changes. Look at any menu with healthy choices over a period of time and keep track of the number of items that are removed because they weren’t ordered; customers have signaled that if the item doesn’t taste good they won’t eat it, no matter how healthy it is.
Enter deep fried foods. Even in an increasingly health food conscious society the demand for deep friend foods is sky rocketing with patrons. A global research company, Mintel, shows that chicken nuggets & wings, fried mozzarella & cheddar sticks, and fried onion rings are among the best selling appetizers on the chain franchise menus today. With this hard data it becomes clear that deep frying foods is one of the most popular means of cooking with customers and that provides a challenge for those caught in the middle of meeting customer demands and meeting Government mandates on healthy foods.
While the challenge of deep frying foods seems to be overwhelming, there is actually a very simple methodology that can help you assure your deep frying methods are meeting current health issues such as trans fat, in addition to meeting the customers demands on taste. Plus, any restaurant owner will know that frying oil is skyrocketing in cost. Frymaster LLC, a Manitowoc Foodservice company created a five step method that offers a best practice guide to handling all of these concerns. It consists of five steps a restaurant owner can follow that will create fried foods that are both flavorful and healthy.
Over the next few days we’ll cover these five steps, how they work and what they mean for your business.