White Castle 100th bash mixes a slide-riding CEO, Alice Cooper, crass puppets for pure virtual fun

May 27, 2021

With everything from its CEO making an entrance via a sliding board, to celebrity Cravers, like Alice Cooper, singing its praises, White Castle not only proved…

How the rise of the chicken sandwich lifts all QSRs

by Jana Zschieschang — CMO, RMS

While QSR customers dearly love chicken sandwiches, QSRs themselves have reason to dearly love the little poultry packages, too.

Survey: Fast food/fast casual face-off intensifying

The lines are blurring but the battle is intensifying for customers between fast food and fast casual restaurants, according to a survey identifying a number…

Popeyes intros un-breaded blackened chicken sandwich LTO

May 26, 2021

Popeyes is taking the QSR sandwich war to a whole different level with its latest LTO — a blackened chicken sandwich, which the Bayou state's KNOE-TV said is…

Taco Bell relaunches 'naked chicken' as answer to QSR chicken sandwich 'sameness'

May 19, 2021

Taco Bell is taking a jab at what it calls the "Bun-mayo-chicken-pickle-bun" sameness of the chicken offerings at other QSRs by pushing its twist on chicken …

Auntie Anne's co-brands with Jamba for pretzel QSR's 1st drive-thru

May 18, 2021

Auntie Anne's will soon be putting pretzels in drivers' hands thanks to the opening of a combined store with sister brand, Jamba, in Wylie, Texas, a Dallas…

Quelling QSRs' labor pains: Why things must radically change

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

In this second of a two-part series on the restaurant industry labor crisis, restaurateurs and industry experts pinpoint the answers all feel are urgently…

Hardee's, Carl's Jr redo 'tenders' as platform for 3 chicken sandwiches launch

May 17, 2021

Carl's Jr. and Hardee's are introducing a chicken platform today that features renditions of the brands' chicken tenders that launched more than a decade ago…

Burger King recrowning nuggets

May 14, 2021

Ten years is a long time to wait for something you love. But true love engenders that kind of commitment and next week, Burger King customers who truly loved…

Is Chick-fil-A heading into the chicken wing biz?

May 13, 2021

In another instance that proves the only thing as hot as a hot chicken sandwich may be the wings off that same bird, comes word this week that Chick-fil-A has…

Wendy's Q1 results trounce estimates

May 12, 2021

That little freckle-faced gal on the front of Wendy's outlets may be smiling a little more visibly this morning thanks to first quarter earnings that…

McDonald's works with Biden administration to boost vaccine awareness

Want to get an important message across to Americans? Fast food may be the answer.

Chicken shortage sends prices upward

May 6, 2021

Chicken prices have more than doubled year to date, and wing prices have set new records on account of a shortage, according to Urner Barry, a market research…

Wendy's asks, 'Bourbon with that burger, ma'am?'

May 6, 2021

Apparently, the culinary masterminds at Wendy's took a turn at last Saturday's Kentucky Derby because the brand said today it's introducing a Bourbon Bacon…

Krispy Kreme 'confidentially' files for IPO

May 5, 2021

Krispy Kreme told Reuters Tuesday it "confidentially" filed for an initial public offering with U.S. regulators.

Rebounding on steroids: Lessons learned from former Yum! CEO

While restaurateurs have had their share of setbacks over the last year or more, how brands fare going forward depends very much on how each company executes…

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Sysco boosts earnings against 13.7% sales decline for Q3 2021

May 4, 2021

Sales for Sysco Corp. in the third quarter fell 13.7% from $13.7 billion in Q3 2020 to $11.8 billion, in Q3 2021, ending March 27, 2021, according to an…

Orlando slider-cravers 'storm the (White) Castle'

May 4, 2021

The city of Orlando turned out in droves for the opening of the largest free-standing White Castle restaurant on the planet this week in Florida Gulf Coast…

After 95 years, iconic Rainbow Cone opens store No 2

April 29, 2021

Since 1926, Chicago's iconic Rainbow Cone has drawn pastel ice cream-lovers from far and wide to its pink, pastel-ified store on South Western Avenue in South…

Taco Bell launches a lunar phase of its own

April 29, 2021

Taco Bell is going lunar in a big way, launching a worldwide free taco event in celebration of the moon.