Lessons Learned from 2025- William Mauk & John Engleman

About this episode

William and John discuss the lessons learned from the challenging year of 2025 for restaurants, including food trends and recipe questions.

In this week’s edition of the Bien the Know podcast, William and John talk lessons learned from 2025 – NOT the best year for restaurants. William talks food and restaurant trends, both regional and national. He’ll talk about what he’ll be doing new this year at Bistro 16 and what he’s doubling down on. Also, he answers your recipe questions. What’s stewing on the stove? Do you keep your bacon grease? And finally, Texas Queso vs. Arkansas Cheese Dip (there really is no competition, and we all know it). That’s on this week’s edition of Bien the Know! Please like, subscribe and tell a friend!

People in this episode

Host: John Engleman

Guest: William Mauk

Topics covered

• restaurant trends
• food
• cooking
• regional cuisine
• recipe questions

Keywords

• restaurant trends
• Bistro 16
• Texas Queso
• Arkansas Cheese Dip
• recipe questions
• cooking tips

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Bistro 16

Places: Texas, Arkansas

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