Top 100 Independent Restaurants

Top 100 Independent Restaurants

By Al Zehnder, CEO of Zehnder’s of Frankenmuth Each year Restaurant Business Magazine gathers sales information, number of guests served, guest check averages, total square footage and number of dining seats from independent restaurants around the country. In...

Edna’s Blueberry Cobbler

By Executive Chef John Zehnder, CEC, AAC, HGT Local farmers have to be thrilled! Rain is coming in on a regular basis and our temperatures have been pleasant for most of the summer. I trudged through the muddy fields at the Fred Weiss Family Farm the other day to...

Fresh Squeezed

By Al Zehnder, CEO of Zehnder’s of Frankenmuth I was visiting my oldest daughter earlier this year. She’s an MSU grad working for a major hotel in Nashville. Great city, really nice property. She and her boss (a great guy with lots of experience) gave me the...

Shine on Harvest Moon

By Executive Chef John Zehnder, CEC, ACE, HGT, AAC Some like summer, but my favorite time of the year is autumn! The hot muggy days of summer are just a memory and the spectacular colors of fall begin to appear almost overnight. September’s full moon – The Harvest...