Vol. IV, No. 4, April 2004

  1. Editor's Corner
  2. PBS KIDS Backyard Opens
  3. Cook-It-Yourself Dining: A Nascent Trend
  4. The LOHAS Market
  5. Foundations Entertainment University - It's Not Too Late!
  6. Being No. 1 vs. the Disaster of Being No. 2
  7. Pizza Facts
  8. Cool Website: Microsoft's bCentral
  9. Kids Like Going Out with Their Families
  10. Randy's Travelogue
  11. Hiving Emerges as New Trend of American Living
  12. Child Development Expert Barred by Hasbro

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Cook-It-Yourself Dining: A Nascent Trend

Last month we reported on the trend of give-it-to-me-my-way ordering in restaurants. A variation of that trend is surfacing in the form of cook-it-yourself restaurants. Restaurants in which customers are the chef are popping up throughout the heartland of America. Examples include cook-it-yourself Korean barbecue, Thai hot-pot cooking, fondue, Japanese shabu-shabu, roll-your-own pizza dough and grilling steak and fish, as well as do-it-yourself s'mores.

Hudson Riehle, senior vice president of research at the National Restaurant Association, says, "Americans want control. The cook-it-yourself experience embodies the quintessential American values of freedom of choice and independence." Pamela Parseghian, executive food editor at Nation's Restaurant News, attributes the phenomena to this: "People still want to add the eggs and stir the bowl. Psychologically, they want to be a little involved."

Vol. IV, No. 4, April 2004

  1. Editor's Corner
  2. PBS KIDS Backyard Opens
  3. Cook-It-Yourself Dining: A Nascent Trend
  4. The LOHAS Market
  5. Foundations Entertainment University - It's Not Too Late!
  6. Being No. 1 vs. the Disaster of Being No. 2
  7. Pizza Facts
  8. Cool Website: Microsoft's bCentral
  9. Kids Like Going Out with Their Families
  10. Randy's Travelogue
  11. Hiving Emerges as New Trend of American Living
  12. Child Development Expert Barred by Hasbro

[ Index of Previous eNewsletters ]