Know What Restaurants are Keeping it Local? There’s an App for That.
In homes across the state, it’s not uncommon to hear:
“Hey, Honey. Where do you want to go for supper tonight?”
“I don’t know. Where do you want to go?”
“I don’t know. Where do you want to go?”
“I don’t care. Just pick something.”
That discussion may have just gotten shorter thanks to the South Carolina Department of Agriculture’s “Fresh on the Menu” mobile app — especially if the argument is about finding restaurants that serve fresh, locally-grown produce, poultry, dairy, and meat.
With unveilings last week in Charleston, Columbia, and Greenville, Commissioner of Agriculture Hugh Weathers touted the new app profiling “Fresh on the Menu” restaurants that include at least 25% Certified South Carolina grown produce and products on their menus when in season.
Featuring four tabs (Restaurants, Chefs, Recipes, and Roots), the “Fresh on the Menu” app allows users to:
- Choose from any of the more than 300 participating restaurants across the state,
- Learn about the state’s award-winning and award-nominated chefs who are transforming South Carolina’s restaurants in to culinary destinations,
- Collect recipes from these restaurants and chefs to take a taste of South Carolina in their home kitchens, and
- Discover farms, produce companies, and breweries supplying South Carolina restaurants with their “Fresh on the Menu” ingredients.
“Fresh on the Menu” is a free web-based app available to iPad, iPhone, and Android users by simply visiting www.freshonthemenuapp.com mobile devices, and saving the address to the device’s home screen.
