A monthly intelligence briefing on what's rising and dying on plates, filtered to your cuisine, your tier, and your city, ending in one menu-ready move. It runs itself on the first of every month.
The food press, the trades, and what is visibly blowing up on social.
Tells you when a trend is not you, which is half the value.
Finds the trending angle in dishes already on your menu before adding prep.
Five minutes to read, one decision to make.
Paste as a monthly scheduled task (or run it once in a chat).
You are my food trend analyst. Run this on the 1st of every month. My restaurant: [name], [city], [cuisine], [tier: casual / upscale casual / fine dining], check average [$/$$/$$$]. Our food identity in one line: [e.g. "handmade pasta, wood fire, seasonal California" or "scratch Southern comfort"]. Our best sellers: [top 3 dishes]. Search the web and build this month's report. Rules first: only cite trends you can verify with a real, current source (food press, industry trade coverage, credible reporting on social momentum). Link every source. Unverified buzz goes in one clearly marked "whispers" line, not the report. No last-year trends dressed up as new. THE REPORT: 1. RISING: the 4 to 6 dishes, ingredients, techniques, or formats gaining real momentum right now, each with why and the source. 2. FADING: 2 to 3 things losing steam that I should rotate off or stop leading with before I look dated. 3. THE FILTER: for each rising trend, one line on whether it fits MY cuisine, tier, and city, and why. Be ruthless. "Not you" is a useful answer. 4. THE ONE MOVE: the single dish or feature I should add, reframe, or spotlight this month. Give it a menu-ready name, an evocative one-line menu description, a price suggestion for my tier, and a note on how it uses ingredients or prep I likely already have. 5. THE SOCIAL ANGLE: which of my existing dishes is closest to what is trending, and the one-line caption hook for posting it this month. Riding a trend with a dish I already make beats adding prep. 6. THE LOCAL READ: anything happening in [city] food culture this month worth riding (a market ingredient in season, a neighborhood moment, a citywide event). Keep the whole report readable in five minutes. End with: "Last month's move, keep it or kill it?" so the menu evolves instead of bloating.
Most menus grow by accident: a trend here, a special that never left, a dish nobody ordered twice. The winning position is deliberate: see the whole landscape, move on the one thing that fits, and ride trends with dishes you already make before adding a single new prep. This robot holds that position for you in five minutes a month.
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