Looking to spice up your appetizer menu? Quandt’s is now stocking 4 new Asian-flair appetizer items from TMI Trading Corp. I don’t know about you- but “potsticker appetizer” are my two favorite words. Item # 15310 is a Chef One Chicken Teriyaki Potsticker, 150 ct to a pack. Frozen to steamer/pan/ fryer- pair these with a cup of Minor’s Sweet N’ Sour sauce (item # 6830) and you have a plate pleasing to the eye and stomach. Quandt’s is also offering a Chef One Spinach Potsticker (Item # 15311) for your vegetable-loving crowds. I would love to have these with a nice Wasabi Aioli (#1559).

Again for perhaps the dieting crowd would be TMI Vegetable Springroll (Quandt’s # 16389) or the TMI cooked Lo Mein Noodle (Quandt’s #16393). The springrolls can be baked or deep fried and the lo mein noodes just need to be defrosted and warmed. Quick and simple. These are lighter options that can be combined with other entrees for a diet meal that doesn’t taste like a diet.

Diners are always looking for appetizer options beyond the usual mozzarella sticks and nachos. Add these to your menus and watch your profits soar!

Until Next Time…

Lauren Hathaway
Assistant Buyer

Hello and Happy Spring! It’s hidden somewhere beneath that snow, I promise!  My name is Lauren Hathaway and I’m an Assistant Buyer for Quandt’s Foodservice Distributors. But on here, you can just think of me as the hostess with the inside scoop on new products. Several times a month, we hold new product demonstrations here at the main office.  Vendors and brokers come in to show us what they’ve got! We get to try out and pick the best products to serve our customers.

Recently, a broker from Tyson and Ken’s Foods showed us some delicious new frozen chicken options as well as specialty salad dressings.  Quandt’s is now offering an 8oz airline bone in chicken breast.  This comes in a 4 (5) lb pack and would be a great addition to a lunch or early-bird smaller portion menu.  If you need some new marinade ideas- read on!

My favorite offerings from the demo were the new specialty dressings offered by Ken’s Foods.  Cucumber Wasabi, Honey Lime (a personal favorite!), Chipotle Ranch Mayo, and Texas Petal Sauce (for all you onion ring lovers out there!!). These will be sold in 4 (1) gallon packages. The dressings are a tasty addition to veggies, chicken tenders, sandwiches, salads, fries, and onion rings. The Cucumber Wasabi goes great with tuna or swordfish and the Honey Lime works well as a marinade for fish or chicken.

According to a recent study, the top 10 flavor combo’s in 2010 will be: garlic, hot/spicy, Italian, Latin/Spanish, Asian, Creole/Cajun, Teriyaki, Citrus, Berry, and Chipotle.  As you can see, we’ve incorporated this outlook into our new product choices.  Many of your restaurants and eateries will be looking to include these flavor pairings as well.

Check back for the latest product demonstrations at Quandt’s!

Beginning Monday June 1st we will begin a new program which will allow you to place specialty seafood items, the day before your delivery, and receive that product the next day. Please see your sales associate for details.

MISSION FOODS

To fully understand Mission Foods – our products, our business philosophies – it’s important to understand a bit of our history. The company we know as Mission Foods today had its beginnings in 1949 when Don Roberto Gonzalez and his father formed the company GRUMA S.A. in Monterrey, Mexico, and revolutionized the corn flour and tortilla industries.

Prior to that time, corn flour – corn masa – was produced in essentially the same labor-intensive way originated by the Aztecs hundreds of years earlier. Don Roberto Gonzalez envisioned a better way and replaced the old Nixtamal stone grinding process with a radically more efficient hammer milling process. This new process resulted in a superior corn flour – Maseca corn flour with a more controllable, more uniform particle size. It also resulted in higher yield with less labor and waste than the old-fashioned method. Most importantly, it produced superior quality tortillas.

Today, GRUMA S.A. is the world’s largest producer of Maseca corn flour and tortilla products, with production facilities across the Americas, the UK, Holland, Italy and Asia. Its operations and sales extend to the US, Canada, throughout Central America (through Gruma Centro America), and into England, Europe, Asia, Australia and the Middle East. With the backing of Gruma’s global technology and resources, Mission Foods has grown to become the largest producer of tortilla products in the US.

]]> http://www.quandts.com/other/quandts-introduces-mission-foods/feed/ 0 http://www.quandts.com/other/bakery-show/ http://www.quandts.com/other/bakery-show/#comments Wed, 11 Feb 2009 16:01:14 +0000 admin http://www.quandts.com/?p=785 Thank you to our Valued Customers and Vendor Partners for making the Quandt’s Bakery & Ice Cream Show another huge success this year. Click more to see photos of our “Best Cake” Winners.