The two most noteworthy trends in for 2016 have nothing to do with food
Big disrupters are a revolution in high-speed food delivery to homes and offices, and a conversation regarding tipping and pay disparities. Cleansing menus of additives won’t be enough. Why there’s a new obsession with fried chicken, plus at the end of the article you can find the strongest keywords when it comes to food and beverage for the year ahead.
Explore the most significant predictions about the hottest global food and beverage trends 2016 follow.
6. Obsessing with Fried Chicken
Sandwich of the Year: Fried Chicken. Shake Shack (grossly overpriced overpriced in Dubai Chronicle's team opinion) made headlines this year with a limited release of a fairly conventional ChickenShack sandwich. They follow an emerging obsession.
Chicken Flavor of the Year: Nashville Hot. A cult favorite that's spreading across the world ... meant to burn your lips for days on end. Like buffalo wings, Nashville Hot Chicken is dunked in hot sauce after frying; but it ain't plain old hot sauce ... this is a thermonuclear paste of melted lard, sugar, sadistic quantities of cayenne, sugar and each chef's secret spices. It is showing up in fried chicken joints and sitdown restaurants.
