Hide a few perfectly steamed Cajun crawfish beneath a salad of beautiful Chilean greens seasoned with a lime, cilantro, and cumin Mexican dressing, and it is Latino lagniappe, a Latino salad with a Louisiana surprise.
On menus everywhere, national and multi-national restaurant chains are adding new and different dressings to an ever-growing list of salads. McDonald's Restaurant (Oak Brook, Ill.) has publicly stated that a major factor in its remarkable turnaround and record sales was the introduction of its new premium salads. There is no doubt that the brand power of Newman's Own (Westport, Conn.) dressing has been a big part of that huge success. Though “the arches” had launched a few versions of salad in the past, never before has any introduction been so widely accepted. The consumer acceptance of those wildly popular dressings may have been the key.