Tork releases online modules to boost foodservice professionals

October 29, 2019

Tork, an Essity brand in workplace hygiene, has launched Reach for the Stars, a free online module series to help foodservice managers and owners improve their…

Energy: QSRs burn it up. These 3 steps will cut it down.

Trimming the fat in your brand's energy costs doesn't have to be complicated and time-consuming. Here, an energy-use expert explains how you can do it in …

Yum China puts waste in 'basket'

October 14, 2019

Yum China Holdings is China's first restaurant company to attain the International Sustainability and Carbon Certification. It has launched a system that…

'How Chipotle Turned Free Burritos into Lasting Customer Relationships' focus of Oct 24 free webinar

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

Basketball and burritos are a pretty unbeatable mix. But when that duo is also paired with digital engagement as Chipotle did last spring, it is even more…

Salad Station multiplies via robot

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

Replicating isn't a new concept with any discussion of robots, in or outside of the restaurant industry. But Salad Station sees its use of the a salad-making…

McDonald's tags Beyond for plant-based burger test in Canada

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

QSR superpower, McDonald's, is entering the plant-based garden, with a test of its new P.L.T. burger in Canada.

Nation's 2nd oldest burger QSR, Halo Burger, reborn at 96

September 17, 2019

Halo Burger is celebrating a long-and-healthy 96 years today, which also just happens to be National Cheeseburger day, which might not even have been around…

KFC, Beyond Meat test 1st national plant-based QSR chicken Tuesday in Atlanta

August 26, 2019

Plant-based QSR chicken is reality, starting tomorrow when Kentucky Fried Chicken becomes the first national U.S. quick-serve to test a plant-based chicken as…

Subway adopts 50,000 honeybees at world HQ campus

August 13, 2019

Upon learning that nearly three-quarters of the bees in Subway's corporate headquarter state of Connecticut died last year, the brand initiated an ambitious…

Canadian Pizza 73 goes all in for plant-based base + toppings

August 7, 2019

Canadian-based pizza chain, Pizza 73 is debuting a cauliflower crust in all 88 traditional Alberta-area restaurants, as well as two new plant-based protein…

Dear QSRs: Why can't plants be themselves?

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

In this increasingly plant-based meat world, have QSRs forgotten that plants —  sans the meaty masquerade —  are actually pretty darn good foods themselves?

Tim Hortons cracks open a new QSR plant product: 'eggs'

July 26, 2019

Tim Hortons has cracked into a whole new type of fast food offering, announcing this week that it is the first major QSR to offer plant-based eggs as a test at…

Baskin-Robbins carves a scoop out of plant-based QSR action

July 25, 2019

Baskin-Robbins has scooped out a place in the QSR world's move to accommodate plant-based preferring customers by today announcing two non-dairy flavors…

Dunkin' Manhattan launches 1st QSR plant-based breakfast patty sandwich

July 24, 2019

Dunkin' is dippin' into plant-based offerings too by partnering with plant-based product maker, Beyond Meat, to give diners a Beyond Sausage Sandwich at the…

QSR plant-based burgers orders spike 10% over last year

July 17, 2019

QSR orders for plant-based burgers shot up 10% this year over last, to a whopping 228 million servings according to new data from the NPD Group. That's a far…

KFC commits to chicken welfare standards in UK by 2026

July 16, 2019

KFC has become the first fast food chain in the U.K. to say it will comply with an animal welfare standard known as the European Chicken Commitment, which was…

Taco Bell opens 1st freestanding cantina to 'wave reviews,' dude!

July 9, 2019

Taco Bell said it's going full-steam ahead with its cantina concept restaurants, with plans to open the alcohol-serving renditions of the brand in Boston, Fort…

NYC Styrofoam ban takes effect

July 1, 2019

New York City restaurants have officially said goodbye to Styrofoam. The city banned it Jan. 1, but gave businesses six months to comply. Time is up.

iQ teams up with The New Farm for unique greens

June 28, 2019

Canada-based fast casual, iQ, is partnering with The New Farm, an Ontario organic farm, to use The New Farm's regenerative greens at iQ locations. The greens…

Grubhub: Plant-based offerings firmly rooted in center of American plates

June 26, 2019

Online ordering and delivery platform, Grubhub, used data from more than 500,000 orders which it said take place "on an average day" through the service to…