In The Weeds with Ben Randall

Today Ben & Steve are sampling candy from Japan and mustard from the National Mustard Museum!  No news this week because we're all waiting to see what the next season of 'America Implodes' brings us.   As always, find us here:   https://www.facebook.com/groups/774902433251568 https://www.instagram.com/chefbenrandall/ (instagram) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/in-the-weeds-with-ben-randa...

Today we're talking about food media's predictions for the 2021 trends, which include austerity, the continued rise of vampiric third party delivery systems, and the death of the salad bar.  But there's hope!  There's always pizza!   As always, find us here:   https://www.facebook.com/groups/774902433251568 https://www.instagram.com/chefbenrandall/ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/in-the-weed...

Happy soon-to-be-New-Year everyone!  Is it too early to celebrate?  Probably!

Today we're talking weird one-off junk food flavor combos, the continuing miasma of confusing COVID-related directives for restaurants and how operators are handling all of that.  Also, you can drink in airports!

Today we're talking Christmas (holiday) Cookies, Guy Fieri's foundation for out of work restaurant folk, and the 2020 food trends that never were.

Tonight we're talking about DoorDash's new grift, Christmas menu plans, Arby's and we're working on a 2020 wrapup, which is just as horrible as you'd imagine! Find us here: @soberchefben (twitter) ChefBenRandall (instagram) inthweedswbr.com inthweedswbr@gmail.com

It's the Saturday after Thanksgiving, and we're up to our eyeballs in leftovers!  Today we talk turkey roasting, family favorites, international listener mail and US politics (obviously). Catch us out in the social media world! Instagram: ChefBenRandall Twitter: @soberchefben Email: intheweedswbr@gmail.com Website: intheweedswbr.com

You guys, it's almost Thanksgiving!  Tonight we're talking pie (again), ChowNow and (for some reason), raisins.  Do you have a family favorite Thanksgiving dish that NOBODY else eats?  Tell us about it!  Find us @soberchefben on Twitter, ChefBenRandall on Instagram, or email us at inthweeedswbr@gmail.com!

You guys.  Steve went to Disney. Like the World.  The Happiest Place On Earth.  Or, possibly the Happiest Place To Get Coronavirus.  Let's find out!

Tonight we talk about the future of restaurant assistance from our 'new' federal government, and we have a guest!

You guys.  Brach's has made an abomination.  Also, we talk Halloween in the time of COVID, restaurant dining restrictions, the further shenanigans of GrubHub, and we rank candies.

Right when everything's about to crash down, that's the best time to injure yourself, right?

This episode we're talking 2020 COVID kitchen hiring, Halloween, cold coffee, non-traditional Thanksgiving and the end (?) of restaurants in this country.

Today we're talking ongoing staffing issues in hospitality, weird fruit hybrids and food on sticks.  Who doesn't love food on sticks?

Sorry we skipped a week, kids, but I lost an employee two weeks ago and have been up to my eyeballs in production work.  On top of my management work.  It's been a ride. Today we talk restaurant cover charges, restaurant openings, roll-feed printers and how NOT to quit a job.  Roller.  Coaster.

It's our 200th Episode!  Tonight we're talking about menu writing, specifically descriptive word choice.  Also, we dissect a particularly awful article from 2016, and the restaurant news is still all bad.

There are two things that I am extremely happy to NOT be doing in 2020: dating and getting married.  How do you even do that?  Also, we get an in-school foodservice update, and a drop-in from Ben's younger brother Luke!  (Spoilers, he WENT to a wedding recently!)

It's a long one today, kids!  We're talking long-term restaurant design planning in the time of COVID, grocery delivery ideas, Kool-Aid Pickles and Ben's first full week back to work.  Let's be honest; this episode is therapy in action.

Oh, man you guys, Ben's back to work!  Also we talk menu writing, 3rd-party delivery systems, food lathing and product shortages, outages & delays.

...and you thought back-to-school shopping sucked?  How about going back to school in 2020?  IT'S WAY WORSE.

Ok kids, today Steve & Ben are talking Back To School, fancy KitKats, desserts that are also probably sex moves and Star Wars restaurant food. ft: The Matcha Train, Pumpkin Squeezins and Don't Lie To The Clown

It's Equipment Care 101 tonight, folks!  Also we cover a bit of obligatory COVID housekeeping, pitch a haunted house movie and try to find parts for Steve's old-ass stove.

Let's fix cultural appropriation in restaurants!  No, there is too much. Let's start with moldy jam and paletas.  Also, how much is a pizza worth, what's YOUR favorite energy drink, and who actually eats pandas?

"I wear the mask to protect my loved ones."  -Batman Wear a mask when you go out.  Be like Batman.   Also, today we talk upcoming guests, kitchen redesigns and Sbarro, somehow.

Heya kids!  Today we're talking about Disney reopening in the COVID world, Goya hitching their wagon to a turd, Alinea's intensely high-falutin' "art" mocking the global pandemic, and of course, we tie it to Corner Gas.