Cream Rises to the Top of Dessert Trends and SONIC Achievers

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Cream at the Top Of Dessert TrendBentoBox, a platform that helps restaurants grow their business online through a connected suite of digital tools, examined menus that have been changed in the last 90 days in all sections with the word dessert. The database included 4,000 total menu items and the team programmed the system to look at single words as well as double and triple word combinations.  The chart below includes the top ten instances for each and the number next to the word is the number of times it was mentioned.   The cream of the crop on menus (from a word standpoint) is the word cream.  Across the BentoBox menu database the word cream appears on 9.6 percent of menus with chocolate coming in second at 8.2…