Soup And French Bread Make Perfect Winter Food

If you own a cafe or pub that serves food on a dinner time, it can be difficult to adapt your menu for the colder weather without offering meals that are heavy and too big for lunch time. Casseroles, stews and winter warming foods are often large portions and too much for most in the middle of the day. No one wants to return to work feeling drowsy after getting so full on their lunch hour.

So with that in mind, you want to find lunch options that are light and warming, comfort food but healthy, and I can think of no better option that hot soup ad a warm crusty French bread stick.

This way, you get the warming feeling of hot soup trickling down your throat and into your stomach whilst the bread will fill you up without leaving you feeling stuffed. The French bread is a nicer way to accompany soup than a normal roll or couple of slices of normal sandwich bread.

Popular soup flavours include chicken, vegetable and tomato however many places are becoming more daring and versatile with their ingredients. French onion soup is making a return onto the menus, carrot and coriander is often seen in modern cafes and coffee houses. You can also go for an ingredient which is a bit less common on our normal menus, such as ox tail, oriental vegetables and Thai broth.
If you want to be able to offer your customers a number of choices when it comes to their meal you can keep both white and wholemeal French bread in stock, that way customers have options to choose from. Flavoured breads are also getting more common with many food service companies mass producing cheesy, sundried tomato and herby French bread varieties.

And with this meal you have something that will suit patrons of all ages. Young people like soup and even if they don't they will be able to enjoy the bread. The elderly like soup because of the texture and everyone in the middle enjoys it too.

So when you are adapting your menu for the winter season, make soup and French bread top of the list, you will lease all of your customers and will have a meal that is easy and cheap to produce.