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Article: Menu makeover includes ingredients shifts
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- Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
- Article date:
- May 11, 2008
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NEW YORK - Struggling with soaring food costs and cash-strapped
customers, restaurants across the country are swapping expensive
ingredients for cheaper fare and adding new dishes that won't break
their bottom line.Call it a menu makeover: Steakhouses are adding
buffalo meat alongside filet mignon, pizza joints are trying new
cheese products and seafood spots are replacing pricier entrees with
humbler dishes like catfish.The changes come as record oil prices
and surging global demand for staples like rice, fish, poultry and
wheat have pushed wholesale food prices up almost 8 percent in the
past year, the biggest increase in three decades, according to the
National Restaurant ...