With Halloween approaching, it is difficult to say who is more excited: kids eager to go trick-or-treating or foodservice operators looking to take advantage of the huge consumer spending. Surprise your guests with distinctive Halloween themed menu and increase your business! You still have some time to prepare your foodservice facility for this scary holiday. You don’t know where to start? Don’t worry! We are ready to help make your business richer!

Restaurant kitchens are notoriously challenging, especially during rush hours when every second counts. To deliver the best experience to your customers you should reevaluate your workflow and set priorities to take control of your time in the kitchen.

Anuga, the world’s largest trade fair for food and beverages, is the most import trade fair Aviko will participate in this year.

Urban, hectic lifestyles resulted in the change of our eating habits - from the typical daypart patterns in favor of mini-meals, small bites and shareable menu items that allow to experiment with flavors.

With the popularity of vegan and vegetarian diets, global demand for plant-based foods is on the rise. The vegan and vegetarian market will be worth $5 billion by 2020 ( Fitt Insider). Non-meat restaurants continue to pop-up across Europe and it seems that the trend is here to stay.

Food trucks have hit a great part of the restaurant industry. Busy lifestyles, with on-the-go consumers increasingly favouring convenient and affordable quality food, result in continuous growth of the street food format. The summer is coming and the food truck business is the perfect summer business! Don’t miss your chance!

Eating breakfast in the city is not a trend anymore – it became a lifestyle nowadays, resulting from global urbanization trend. Consumers are increasingly on-the-go, which results in changing the way they do breakfast. Few people have time to sit around the table and enjoy a traditional meal at home, and therefore the preference is moving towards out of home eating. Even timing isn’t an issue, as the meal merges into brunch and then on into the all-day breakfast. These new habits are pushing foodservice operators to take a fresh look at the morning daypart.

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Sweet potatoes are used in a similar way as well-known potatoes, but these orange healthy kings among side dishes have much more benefits to your health. That is why the growing interest in this plant is visible. Consumption of sweet potatoes strengthen your immune system, lowers cholesterol and thanks to beta carotene and plant sterols the chance of developing cancer lowers.

The festive season is here and the country is full of Christmas markets! In these you can find the most beautiful and unique gifts as well as delicious foods for warming up. The thing about the Christmas Markets is that the food is a huge part of the experience. If you are a food-based business, then a street food stall is a great way of extra profits for you this Christmas.

With the festive season on the horizon, now is the right time to start planning special menus for the upcoming family gatherings, corporate Christmas events, New Year parties, etc. For the foodservice operators each of these can be a stressful event, especially when kitchen space is limited and preparation time is scarce.

‘Going vegan' is predicted to be the top foodservice trend of 2019. The trend is driven mainly by young people making more conscious, ethical and healthy choices. As this consciousness increases, manufacturers, including Aviko, are taking note.

Churros come from Spain and they are highly popular as breakfast offer. It’s difficult to find the original recipe, since there are so many different traditions about making churros. Many people add eggs, vanilla flavor, vanilla sugar and similar „extras”, while the authentic dough is only made with water, flour, salt and a little olive oil. All we have to do is to mix these ingredients until it becomes an easy-to-knead dough, then we form sticks – in the simplest case with a traditional churros maker.

This year Aviko is taking an important step in cutting down on the use of palm oil by replacing it with sunflower oil for all Premium fries brands. From June onwards Aviko Super Crunch, Aviko Super Longs and all the other Premium brands will switch to sunflower oil. An increasing number of Aviko clients prefer sunflower oil and ask for this oil rather than palm oil, and also consumers believe sunflower oil is healthier.

It’s no secret that the Millennial generation has the greatest buying power in today’s market - it's a Millennial world now! And so, it’s crucial to understand what they’re buying, and how they’re different from their parents. Let’s take a closer look at their eating habits.