Mid-Atlantic to showcase new products, services

September 7, 2008

BALTIMORE — The Mid-Atlantic Food, Beverage and Lodging Expo, slated to take place Sept. 17-18 at the Baltimore Convention Center, will offer a variety of new…

Mid-Atlantic Expo partners with NRA: Conserve

September 4, 2008

BALTIMORE — The Mid-Atlantic Food, Beverage and Lodging Expo, along with its co-producers, the Restaurant Association of Maryland (RAM), has joined forces…

Wendy's adds Double Stack to value menu

August 28, 2008

DUBLIN, Ohio — Wendy's has announced the national introduction of a 99-cent Double Stack cheeseburger to its value menu. The company plans to aggressively…

Mid-Atlantic Expo to feature free educational seminars

August 28, 2008

BALTIMORE — The Mid-Atlantic Food, Beverage and Lodging Expo, to be held Sept. 17-18 at the Baltimore Convention Center, will offer attendees the know how…

The decline of the dollar menu

QSR operators face challenges to sustain low-cost fare.

Western food show offers tips, new products

August 23, 2008

LOS ANGELES — The Western Foodservice and Hospitality Expo kicked off Aug. 23 with up to 15,000 industry professionals seeing what's hot in the foodservice…

Western Foodservice & Hospitality Expo kicks off

August 22, 2008

LOS ANGELES — The Western Foodservice & Hospitality Expo opened Aug. 23 at 10 a.m. Pacific time in Los Angeles. Held in the Los Angeles Convention Center…

Arby's, Cellfire launch mobile coupons

August 12, 2008

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Cellfire Inc., a nationwide mobile-coupon and discount-offer service, has announced that Arby's will use its service to distribute mobile…

QSRs Face(book) forward

Social networking sites an emerging marketing platform.

Does organic fit on the QSR menu?

EVOS succeeds with the use of organic ingredients, healthy options.

McDonald's tests McCafés in southwest

July 8, 2008

OAK BROOK, Ill. — McDonald's Corp has announced that select restaurants in the southwestern U.S. region will get McCafé coffee shops prior to their national…

Dunkin' Donuts adds Southwest Chicken Flatbread Sandwich

June 29, 2008

CANTON, Mass. — Dunkin' Donuts has introduced a new Southwest Chicken Flatbread Sandwich, available at Dunkin' Donuts restaurants nationwide beginning June 30…

Subway franchisee tests mobile couponing

June 26, 2008

Blue MauMau: A Subway franchise near UCLA is experimenting with offering coupons via a mobile phone network that offers specialized university news and sports.

Employees leery of palm-print scanners

June 24, 2008

Ventura County Star: Employees at a growing number of businesses, including Dunkin' Donuts, are starting and ending their days by pressing hands or fingers to…

McDonald's tests new smoothies

June 24, 2008

Sault Ste. Marie Evening News: Northern Michigan McDonald's restaurants, along with Bakersfield, Calif., and Rochester, N.Y., are again being used as consumer…

Research International USA releases 'Fast Food Nation 2008' report

June 19, 2008

CHICAGO — Chicago-based Research International USA has released its first-ever fast food industry report, "Fast Food Nation 2008: A Consumer Perspective on the…

Smoothie madness

Nutrition-packed beverages serve as snacks, quick meals.

NRA joins campaign to revisit food-to-fuel mandates

June 12, 2008

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The National Restaurant Association continued to express concern over increasing wholesale food and commodity prices and the resulting dire…

IBM, Self-Service World announce free webinar on reaching the ‘new consumer'

June 10, 2008

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — IBM, a global provider of business technologies, and Self-Service World, the leading news and information source covering the self-service…

McDonald's testing RFID coupons in Japan

May 22, 2008

Wired: McDonald's is testing a new e-coupon system in Japan called the Kasazu, or contactless, coupon. The coupon is a payment application that is downloaded…