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10 cozy comfort menu ideas for food service chefs to snuggle into chilly days ahead

The world—your customers in particular—needs comfort food now more than ever. Here are ideas that will get you psyched to light the home fires of comfort food and keep them stoked through the winter ahead.

Tara Fitzpatrick, Senior Editor

October 28, 2020

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Comfort food can transport us back to grandma’s kitchen, our hometown pizza joint or anyplace where things seemed, well…less complicated and uncertain than they are now. Food service professionals are in the position to be that comfort, with dishes they’ve perfected over years of trying to recapture that safe, secure, comforting feeling of grandma’s kitchen. Now, we’re living in a world that needs it now more than ever. We’re seeing versions of comfort food with favorites from the Midwest to the Middle East.

“I feel that our job is to create an environment that lets our guests escape for that thirty minutes to an hour and retreat into some type of dish that has been inspired by our chefs and hand crafted to fit their needs to give them nourishment,” says David Peterson, Eurest regional chef. “Along with that, seeing our team that they’ve adopted as part of their daily ‘family.’”

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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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