National Pasta Month, Italians, Food and Jewelry!

 The month of October is National Pasta Month, and nothing says comfort like pasta! Pasta is featured on 39% of U.S. restaurant menus. That means, most of you have yet to add this versatile item to your operation. It’s one of America’s most loved foods — on par with cheeseburgers and chocolate chip cookies. A trend that will never die. An appetite that will never go away.

There are many menu items that provide comfort, but nothing beats going to a restaurant and ordering a bowl of your favorite pasta. But with less customers dining in and more customers ordering takeout and delivery, ensuring your pasta is cooked correctly and packaged well for travel can mean the difference of a customer returning.

Take It To-Go! Pasta for Delivery and Takeout

An impressive 85% of consumers report they love or like pasta. With so many diners looking to enjoy their favorite meals from the comfort of their homes, try incorporating pasta into your delivery and to-go menu.

With its ability to travel well matched with the demand for off-premise food, adding pasta to your menu can increase revenue and attract new customers.

Take lasagna or baked ziti for example – they’re meals that travel well from a restaurant to a customer’s table. Plus, they are easy to heat up and always taste good the next day!

Or consider creating a different type of dining experience for your guests to enjoy at home. Give your customers a restaurant quality meal they can take home and cook themselves by creating a unique meal kit to-go.  It can be a comforting, easy to make menu item that provides them with a sense of accomplishment while keeping that restaurant taste.

Whether you add a prepared pasta dish or an interactive meal-kit to your menu, be sure to focus on how you package for delivery. Not all pasta performs the same for delivery and take out – make sure to test your items first.

Now, if you love Pasta, you love the Italian ways! An Italian horn is a twisted chili-pepper-shaped amulet widely popular across Italy. It is also common outside of Italy among Italians and generations of Italian descendants. When traveling to Naples, you will find red horn-shaped talisman charms called “cornicelli” hanging everywhere in the streets. It is typical to see an Italian horn necklace being worn by very handsome, very superstitious Italian men and of course by all the beautiful women too! Sometimes, it will be a gold Italian horn, and sometimes you can see it in red coral or silver.

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But what does the Italian horn mean?

he Italian horn serves as a protection against "Malocchio," as we call it in Italian. "Malocchio" means the evil eye. This is a sort of curse that envious people could potentially silently wish on you. It is not rare to see Italians immediately making a horn sign with their hand to ward off the Malocchio when someone pays a compliment or wishes you something wonderful. Most commonly, the Italian horn is a symbol of good luck.

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