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Food Genius,[...] pitched a vision of using big data to make all of Food Network's digital properties smarter, creating a more personally-relevant experience for consumers looking for recipes, ingredients or restaurants.

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Dining trends are important as Americans increasingly are looking for restaurant-style prepared foods at grocers. By learning what new recipes are trendy at eateries, retailers and CPG companies can stay on the cutting edge of prepared food trends.

Food Genius, a Chicago startup that analyzes restaurant menu data to predict food-industry trends, will has raised $1.2 million in venture capital.

On Wednesday, Food Genius […] inaugurated an 18-month lease for its own office on West Erie Street in River North. The company is the first "graduate" of 1871, becoming the startup equivalent of a household's oldest child leaving the nest.

Their mission: serve up real-time data to industry insiders hungry to get ahead of food trends.

It walked into the program as an app that recommended specific new dishes to try on menus rather than merely new restaurants to eat at. But they walked out as a restaurant consumer data company, selling 'actionable intelligence on restaurants, their menus, and consumer behavior while dining out.'

Food Genius can tell you what hot combinations of ingredients, flavors and culinary buzzwords can boost the appeal – and thus the price – of a dish.

Last September, ... Food Genius had raised $1.2 million to build Food Genius Reports, a data-driven restaurant menu trends dashboard for the food industry. Now ... the team has officially launched the insights dashboard, and its impressive.

As you dig through lists on Food Genius, there are no spinning beachballs or status bars. ... Each hierarchical step hides all the calculations in plain sight. You see how many restaurants use a specific vegetable or protein before you even select it as part of a dish