In this episode of Restaurant Punk, the crew takes on a deceptively simple question:
Should restaurants up their salad game?
What follows is a candid, often hilarious debate about menu strategy, customer expectations, and whether salads truly belong at the center of a restaurant’s focus.
Drawing from firsthand experience, including a past attempt at a salad-forward concept, the conversation explores why salads often underperform, how location and dining context affect ordering behavior, and whether guests actually want healthier options when they eat out.
Along the way, the episode touches on vacation dining habits, changing tastes with age, consistency versus creativity, and why improving a menu doesn’t always mean adding more items.
Raw, opinionated, and deeply relatable for anyone in hospitality, this episode of Restaurant Punk pulls back the curtain on how restaurant decisions are really made, and why not every trend is worth chasing.
