Golden Chick signs 20-unit Vegas expansion deal

July 21, 2020

Golden Chick and one of its tenured franchisees, Chris Aslam, have signed a 20-unit deal to expand into the Las Vegas market, a first for the Texas-based…

Yum Brands partners with Russian company on lab-grown KFC nuggets

July 20, 2020

Yum Brands said it hopes to launch and sell lab-produced chicken nuggets through KFC as part of its "restaurant of the future," according to news release made…

KFC heads west for latest Beyond Chicken offering

July 17, 2020

Kentucky Fried Chicken's Beyond Meat partnership product, Beyond Fried Chicken, is returning to the market, this time to more than 50 stores in the Califorinia…

Church's moves back to pre-pandemic sales levels

June 30, 2020

Church's Chicken said its comparable same-store sales — which were better than they've been in a decade pre-pandemic — have returned to that level over the…

Arby's rolls 3 entries into summer chicken wars

June 25, 2020

Arby's has rolled into summer with something a bit unusual for the brand in its new Market Fresh Wraps, an Arby's spokeswoman confirmed to QSRweb.

Jollibee opens 1st cloud kitchen

June 18, 2020

Fast-food chain Jollibee will open its first cloud kitchen in metro Chicago Thursday inside a Kitchen United outpost in River North on North Sedgwick Street…

Checkers & Rally's enter 'Mother Cruncher' in fast food chicken sandwich fray

June 8, 2020

Dubbed the "Mother Cruncher," Checkers & Rally's is clearly placing the emphasis on crispiness in its new chicken sandwich entry into the chicken sandwich…

Nearly a year after chicken sandwich wars, a major QSR claim to fame comes out of the coop

by S.A. Whitehead — Food Editor, Net World Media Group

Burgers and fries have always been the instant word associations with QSRs, but now, almost one year after last August's storied chicken sandwich wars, that…

KFC Canada ups its digital strategy with new AI, analytics backbone

June 3, 2020

KFC selected cloud-based AI and analytics provider, Manthan, to upgrade its digital game across more than 600 restaurants in Canada. A news release said that…

Bojangles' spreads it on thick' with pimento cheese LTO

May 27, 2020

That spicy cream and cheddar-cheese concoction, known as pimento cheese — after the namesake cherry peppers that dot the spread — is back at Bojangles' as an…

KFC tests '20%' bigger chicken filet sandwich

May 26, 2020

Kentucky Fried Chicken is testing what it calls a "more premium" fried chicken sandwich in several Orlando, Florida-area stores for a limited time, a news…

Golden Chick hatches Big & Golden entry in QSR chicken sandwich wars

May 22, 2020

This Monday, May 25, Texas-based Golden Chick is launching what it hopes is a new player in the chicken wars in its Big & Golden chicken sandwich at all…

Improving Margins with Advanced Reporting

Data is a difference-maker if, of course, it’s used effectively.

Burger King, Popeyes, Tim Hortons North America stores ready for dine-in, CEO says

May 12, 2020

The CEO of Restaurant Brands International Inc., the parent of Burger King, Popeyes and Tim Hortons, has prepared its nearly 15,000 North American stores and…

Golden Chick president promises 500 stores, Netsurion on speeding up contactless pickup

by S.A. Whitehead — Food Editor, Net World Media Group

Although just 189-stores in size now, Golden Chick is planning a lot of hatchlings for the future, with a goal of 500 stores nationally by 2030, according to…

Church's puts tote-able treats in family meals

May 7, 2020

Church's Chicken started this week adding four free hand-held chicken pot pies to every family meal purchases, while supplies last, according to a news…

Golden Chick hatches 1st Louisiana store

May 7, 2020

Golden Chick opened its first Louisiana store this week and in fact, will be the focus of tomorrow's QSRweb podcast when the chain's president, Jim Stevens…

Eating up profits: The high cost of restaurant POS downtime, and the surprising difference SD-Branch can make

One tenth of 1 percent. It might not seem like much, but it adds up. And when that one tenth of one percent is POS downtime, it adds up to a lot: A lot of…

Detroit Metro Popeyes Group thanks workers with $5 an hour pay bonus

April 27, 2020

A Detroit Popeyes franchise group is putting an extra $5 an hour into the pay of employees at the group's 20 locations of the QSR in the Motor City. The…

Yum China confirms nation's 1st QSR plant-based 'chicken' test

April 27, 2020

Kentucky Fried Chicken China confirmed today that it has become one of the first national Western QSR brands to introduce a plant-based meat product to China…