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These articles focus on our annual Best Sandwich competition, the quintessential lunch item and all-day menu favorite.

FM’s Best Sandwiches Readers’ Choice: 7 sandwiches perfect for the winter season

Help your customers grab-and-go deliciously through the busy holiday rush with spirited sandos meant to move.

Tara Fitzpatrick, Senior Editor

November 30, 2021

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Is our annual Best Sandwich competition the gift that keeps on giving? We’d like to think so! FM’s Best Sandwich competition yielded so many winning sammies, shawarmas, subs, paninis, wraps, hoagies, cheesesteaks and tortas, but we have heard our readers, and know that they’re hungry for more!

Check out this delectable selection, which features sandwiches you can plan to make in the winter months ahead. We’ve got a hearty vegetarian sandwich made with meaty portobello, a club sandwich with a beachy vibe, an elevated take on the classic ham ‘n cheese sammie, a couple selections made for using leftover turkey, and some cool wild cards, like a BLT-turned-Monte Cristo.

Since sandwiches have been and continue to be such a cornerstone of foodservice menus, it’s a big deal to keep your sammie game super strong with new ideas and inspiration for unusual ingredients or just unusual presentations. Please enjoy this selection of sandwiches that would all be perfect additions to holiday grab-and-go menus.

About the Author

Tara Fitzpatrick

Senior Editor, Informa Restaurant & Food Group

Tara Fitzpatrick is Food Management’s senior editor and a contributor to Restaurant Hospitality and Nation’s Restaurant News, creating editorial content for digital, print and events. Tara holds a bachelor of science degree from the School of Journalism and Mass Communications at Kent State University. Before joining Food Management in 2008, Tara was associate editor at National Association of College Stores in Oberlin, Ohio. Prior to that, Tara worked as a newspaper reporter in her hometown of Lorain, Ohio, where she lives now. Tara is a fan of food history, legends, lore, ghost stories, urban farming and old cookbooks. 

Tara Fitzpatrick’s areas of expertise include the onsite foodservice industry (K-12 schools, colleges and universities, healthcare and B&I), menu trends, sustainability in foodservice, senior dining, farm-to-table and innovation.

Tara Fitzpatrick is a frequent webinar and podcast host and has served on the board of directors for IFEC (International Food Editors Consortium).

Tara Fitzpatrick’s experience:

Senior Editor, Food Management (Feb 2008-present)

Associate Editor, National Association of College Stores (2005-2008)

Reporter, The Morning Journal (2002-2005)

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