SAN DIEGO — Pat & Oscar's Restaurants is expanding its line of hot premium sandwiches with the introduction of the new Chipotle Pastrami Melt. The sandwich is a combination of hot pastrami, melted provolone cheese, shredded lettuce, roma tomatoes, chipotle mayonnaise and pickle spears.
The new Chipotle Pastrami Melt, which joins the chain's other hot premium sandwich, the meatball sub, will be sold as a combo meal for $9.99 or as an individual sandwich for $7.99.
The company also plans to roll out several other menu offerings and a variety of seasonal "themed" dishes over the next 12 months.
This is the first menu offering introduced by new Pat & Oscar's executive chef Greg Schroeppel and the culinary committee of CEO John Kaufman, COO George Hunter, director of marketing Nicole Abraham and quality assurance manager Cheryl Audorff.
Schroeppel initiated his cooking career at Wolfgang Puck's Spago more than 19 years ago and continued to gain extensive fine dining kitchen experience. As an R&D chef with Perspectives Consulting Group in Los Angeles, Schroeppel worked closely with food scientists, brokers and manufacturers to create dishes in the QSR, fast casual and casual dining restaurant segments.
In his new capacity as executive chef at Pat & Oscar's, he will work with the culinary committee to manage all aspects of menu development, purchasing, sourcing and planning.
