A Resolution You’ll Actually Keep!

A new year is just three days away…have you made your resolution(s) yet? If not, here’s one to seriously consider.

Nation’s Restaurant News reported that Tossed has created the Resolution Salad to appeal to health-minded consumers during a time of year known for personal vows to hit the gym, eat better and shape up. The salad will be available from January 5th through March 1st; Eric Clark, chief operating officer of the Fort Lauderdale-based chain, worked with two of his chefs to come up with the Resolution Salad. The salad is made with hearts of Romaine, baby rocket or arugula, mandarin oranges with a little bit of their juice, jícama, diced tomatoes, sliced carrots, and slightly steamed sugar snap peas and mixed with the chain’s proprietary strawberry-balsamic vinaigrette. Clark uses the slightly bitter arugula to provide a different note for the Resolution Salad.

“With salads nowadays, the lettuce is the base of consistency, but it never has great flavor,” he says. “We are fans of arugula.” Clark and his team are going for the healthful angle to capitalize on guests who want to turn over a new leaf, so to speak, as 2009 gets underway, but he was intent on giving consumers a good deal as well. “It’s the lowest-calorie thing we got out there,“ he says. “We kind of tossed the food costs thing away. We took some expensive ingredients. I said, ‘Let’s not calculate the food costs until we are done.’ If we lose money, it is all about giving back.” Additionally, the restaurant is holding promotions in different markets throughout the week of January 5th through 8th in which the Resolution Salad is free for a single day, and all the proceeds from other sales that day go to the stores’ favorite local charities.