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Our Fast Food Channel covers news and menu additions to brands within the Quick Service Restaurant (QSR) industry. Typically Fast Food or QSRs are categorizes by food that is prepared and served very quickly, typically associated with food sold out of a restaurant or storefront using preheated or precooked ingredients.
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Taco Bell Reveals a Cheesy Double Decker Taco
April 6, 2011 // 10:12 pm
Taco Bell‘s latest menu addition comes in the form of a Cheesy Double Decker Taco being branded alongside an 89¢ price tag. The new taco comes complete with a soft flour tortilla filled with beans and nacho cheese sauce wrapping around a classic crunchy taco filled with…
Chego Restaurant Reveals a “Beisbol Bowl” Dish
April 6, 2011 // 1:55 pm
Chego Restaurant, the standalone restaurant established by Kogi BBQ Truck’s principals have revealed their latest menu offering well-timed with the start of the baseball season. The Beisbol Bowl features a bed of black pepper hot dog and spam fried rice with a layer of fried egg…
McDonald’s Looks to Hire Up to 50,000 Employees in One Day
April 5, 2011 // 6:50 pm
Looking for a job? In a rather unprecedented move, McDonald’s has announced that April 19 will be National Hiring Day at participating locations across the country. In fact, the fast food giant is looking to hire up to 50,000 workers nationwide at nearly 14,000 U.S. restaurants for…
Burger King Launches a “Meat Monster Whopper” That Uses Beef, Pork and Chicken
April 5, 2011 // 6:30 pm
Burger King Japan is introducing a new Whopper being branded as the Meat Monster. The sandwich starts with a basic Whopper, two cheese slices, three strips of bacon, a second 3.3-oz. beef patty and a Tendergrill Chicken patty. With all those listed additions, the sandwich will run…
Pizza Hut Stuffs Money in the Crust as Part of a Questionable New Campaign
April 5, 2011 // 2:40 pm
Pizza Hut took this past weekend to do a little marketing work to promote their new Ultimate Stuffed Crust Pizza. Toying with the branding that their new pizza stuffs the crust with several different meats, a small Pizza Hut crew led by a rather attractive…
Pizza-by-the-slice Chain, Sbarro, Files for Chapter 11
April 5, 2011 // 12:58 am
It seems that pizza-by-the-slice chain Sbarro was never able to fully recover from a dismal past 5 years. Highlighted by rising commodity prices for cheese and flour in 2007 and 2008, followed by incredible recessionary figures into 2009 furthered the chain’s deeply dug hole. Sbarro’s filing into the…
Dunkin’ Donuts Reveals a “Hearty Snacks” Menu
April 4, 2011 // 1:35 pm
Dunkin’ Donuts has taken some trends to heart, apparently concluding that 55 percent of consumers are snacking at least once a day, with 21 percent of consumers saying they’re snacking more frequently than they were two years ago [Technomic]. As a result, the brand has introduced a…
Dunkin’ Donuts IPO Talk Resumes
April 3, 2011 // 9:31 pm
With more than 9,700 units in over 30 countries worldwide and revenues in the billions, it’s often hard to believe that Dunkin’ Donuts is not a public company. The chain has thus far been private-equity backed, and runs under the parent company Dunkin’ Brands Inc. which also…
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