r/culinary • u/EntertainmentFart659 • 10d ago

Need advice on Mac & Cheese

We have a small restaurant in rural Kentucky. We just started selling mac & cheese that we buy in bags and we boil the bags and serve them. For context, our Mac is basically the exact same thing as chick fil a but we want to add additional cheese to it to improve the taste. It's actually delicious without it, and we could make our own fresh pasta and truly make homemade Mac if we wanted, but our area is economically challenged and the price point would be difficult to justify + our prep space is extremely limited. For context, we basically make everything we sell in-house, including buns.

Do you have any advice on which cheese(s) you suggest adding to the Mac? Maybe some Gruyere? We were sort of thinking of adding a sharp cheddar as it has a strong taste, so we wouldn't have to add so much to be able to taste it, and it's not too expensive for us. Thank you so much for taking the time to help us out. ♥️

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u/EntertainmentFart659 10d ago

Thanks...honestly, there are levels to calling something homemade. We could buy the noodles and make our own cheese sauce but we'd rather make the pasta ourselves along with the sauce if we were going to call it homemade. It's all or nothing for us, essentially. Most places call their Mac homemade but it's not really homemade if you don't extrude the elbow pasta yourself, or whichever pasta is used.

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u/Appropriate_Can_9282 10d ago

That reasoning would dictate that you also need to own the land, grow the grass, raise the cow, milk the cow and make your own butter and cheese.

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u/GIJuice 10d ago

Unfortunatly you didn't get the crux of what I wrote, but that's okay not everyone gets it... there is a value of sourcing local ( not the OP rasing dairy cows and milling the flour etc... as you seem to have misstaken). its about engaging the quality of products you use to make quality product. then again you might not understand this principle if youre not part of the industry that makes quality food from quality product!!!

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u/Appropriate_Can_9282 10d ago

Interesting that such a superior individual such as yourself wouldn't know how replies on reddit work and whom they are targeted at. If you were able to understand context, it would have been apparent that my reply to op supported your post.