Rita's Italian Ice adds "Light Line" menu

January 21, 2009

TREVOSE — Rita's Italian Ice has debuted its new "Light Line" menu, a comprehensive offering of healthier frozen treat options, the company has announced.

Mashable examines top 40 brands on Twitter

January 21, 2009

Advertising Age: Technology news blog site Mashable has compiled the 40 best brand accounts on Twitter and the people behind them. The identities of the…

Great American Cookies goes raspberry for Valentine's Day

January 18, 2009

ATLANTA — Great American Cookies has introduced a raspberry chocolate-chip cookie just in time for Valentine's Day, the company has announced. The new cookie…

Consumers trade down from Starbucks

January 18, 2009

Advertising Age: A Lightspeed Research study commissioned by Advertising Age examined why consumers were cutting back on upscale coffee.   The survey results…

Dunkin' Donuts, Krispy Kreme offer inauguration day promos

January 13, 2009

Quick-service donut brands Dunkin' Donuts and Krispy Kreme have announced product promotions in honor of the upcoming presidential inauguration.   Dunkin…

Marble Slab intros new ice cream combinations, cakes

January 11, 2009

ATLANTA — Marble Slab Creamery is kicking off the New Year with a brand new line of ice cream cakes. The brand will introduce four new ice cream cakes and…

Carvel intros sundae flavor of the month

January 8, 2009

ATLANTA — Carvel is adding to its Sundae Dasher line by featuring a unique flavor each month beginning with January's new No Fat Fruit Dasher.   The No Fat…

Dunkin' Donuts manager embezzles, loses money

January 7, 2009

Sun Journal (Auburn, Maine): A former Dunkin' Donuts manager in Auburn, Maine, has pled guilty to embezzling more than $32,000 from the store's daily cash…

MaggieMoo's scoops up ice cream honors

January 6, 2009

ATLANTA — MaggieMoo's Ice Cream & Treatery was recently recognized for its super-premium ice cream at the National Ice Cream Retailers Association awards…

QSRs learn lessons from building green

McDonald's, Subway and Dunkin' Donuts face the challenges of LEED-certified construction projects.

Dunkin Donuts debuts $100M ad campaign

January 4, 2009

CANTON, Mass. — Dunkin' Donuts has unveiled a new $100 million integrated advertising campaign featuring its new theme for 2009: "You Kin' Do It!" Created by…

Dunkin' Donuts sees good year ahead

January 1, 2009

USA Today: Dunkin' Donuts expects to weather 2009 and keep the heat on rivals McDonald's and Starbucks thanks to a new CEO, more value offerings, more stores…

Smuckers launches online Dunkin' Donuts coffee samples

December 30, 2008

Advertising Age: J.M. Smucker Co., which owns Dunkin' Donuts' supermarket-distributed coffee brand, is mounting an online sampling program for the brew-at-home…

U.S. McCafes could learn a lesson from Europe

December 30, 2008

Advertising Age: Blogger Chris Abraham details the coffeehouse experience of a McDonald's McCafe in Berlin, with coffee served in ceramic mugs and seating that…

Dunkin' Brands' Luther shares insight into new CEO hire

December 22, 2008

Chain Leader: Dunkin' Donuts chairman and CEO Jon Luther said he wanted to make sure the company found a new CEO who was experienced and results oriented to be…

Marble Slab Creamery to expand into St. Lucia

December 21, 2008

NEW YORK — NexCen Brands Inc. has signed a master franchise agreement for the expansion of Marble Slab Creamery franchised stores into the eastern Caribbean…

Rita's Italian Ice chain to expand to Texas

December 18, 2008

Trevose, Pa. — Rita's Italian Ice has signed its first development agreement in the state of Texas.  The three-store agreement will result in new stores in…

Subway to test Seattle's Best Coffee

December 17, 2008

Earlier this month in MarketWatch, Starbucks revealed that Subway would be testing the coffee chain's Seattle's Best Coffee brand in 1,900 locations starting…

New video game tests Dairy Queen management skills

December 14, 2008

MINNEAPOLIS — A new PC video game features managing a Dairy Queen as its premise. The game DQ Tycoon was inspired by a 2002 incident in which NBA Dallas…

Krispy Kreme sees comps, loss continue to fall

December 10, 2008

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Krispy Kreme Doughnuts Inc. has reported a widening net loss for the third quarter ended Nov. 2, and same-store sales declined again, the…