Photograph: Getty Images/Image Sourceįundamentally, macaroni cheese is a simple dish. They make endless additions from lobster to butternut squash, over-complicating the dish without finding any interesting new angles of attack (one exception is Hawksmoor’s glorious shortrib macaroni). Just as the Man v Food generation felt it necessary to pimp (eugh!) and fiddle with macaroni cheese – not to improve it, but to justify their own existence – so, too, chefs are incapable of serving a straight version of this essentially domestic dish. People may sell it from stalls and vans (although its resurgence is part of a far broader rise in “dude food”), but if we accept that this is a dish whose primary attraction is effortlessness, who wants to eat it from a Styrofoam container or a cardboard tray, while standing in the cold? Where is the comfort in that? Macaroni cheese is now often described as street food. You must establish when and where it is acceptable. Where?īefore you can discuss the how of macaroni cheese you must define your terms. By all means, grill your fellow contributors, but no going off half-baked, no salty language and, of course, no cheesy puns. If you’re interested in learning how the Food Genius menu analytics dashboard can help you understand menu trends, pricing and market analytics for your next dish, request access today.Below the line, as ever, we offer a penne for your thoughts. There’s a clear opportunity for Fast Food restaurants to capitalize on the hurried diner’s nostalgic fondness for a simple, hearty macaroni and cheese dish. Only 12% are available at quick service places with menu items priced under $8. Macaroni and cheese trends haven’t quite caught on in Fast Food joints, however.
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46% of total American menus offering mac and cheese fall into this specific segment. You’ll also find it here as a side (13%) or kids’ menu (12%), so a family dining establishment is your best bet. A closer look at Food Genius menu analytics dashboard data for macaroni and cheese dishes in American restaurants reveals that it’s served most often (in 15% of instances) as an entree in Fast Casual spots - restaurants that typically price dishes between $7-12. We already know that American cuisine is your best bet. If you’re craving mac and cheese, which type of restaurant should you visit? Kids’ menu dishes are much cheaper: the average price is just $4.95. When mac and cheese is an entree, however, average price jumps up to $9.92. What does all of this have to do with price? Well, when we looked at Food Genius pricing data for macaroni and cheese trends, we found that when it’s served as an appetizer or side dish, average price dips down to $6.31. Kids love mac and cheese so, unsurprisingly, it’s available at 22% of all US restaurants with a kids’ menu. But it’s also popular as a side dish (31%) and less so, but still significantly, as an appetizer (11%). Looking at Food Genius’s breakdown of all US menus offering macaroni and cheese, we see that it’s served as an entree most often - in 32% of instances.
One of macaroni and cheese’s best qualities is its versatility: it works equally well as a main course or as a side dish.
Here’s some additional Food Genius data related to mac and cheese.
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