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Phoenix McDonald's add stationary bikes
March 21, 2007
East Valley Tribune: Two Phoenix-area McDonald's restaurants are adding stationary bicycles to their play areas. The bikes are hooked to flat-screen…
read nowNew Zealanders new love: fast food
March 13, 2007
Stuff.co.nz: New Zealanders are developing a growing love affair with fast food, with sales reaching $103 million in January. Figures issued yesterday show…
read nowKFC pushes dark meat
March 8, 2007
Louisville Courier Journal: KFC, part of Yum! Brands Inc., has started to promote menu items featuring legs and thighs. The advertising push is to…
read nowHardee's testing cell phone coupons
March 5, 2007
Indianapolis Star: Hardee's restaurants in Indianapolis and St. Louis are testing coupons that customers can download to their cell phones to show to cashiers…
read nowWendy's sidesteps NYC menu regulation
March 1, 2007
Marketwatch: Wendy's International removed posters containing nutritional information from its New York-area restaurants in a bid to avoid a new city…
read nowMcDonald's beefs up California menus
March 1, 2007
Orange County Register: McDonald's Corp. is introducing three new six-ounce burgers in 600 California restaurants on March 5. The menu additions follow…
read nowMcDonald's eyes specialty coffee drinks
February 28, 2007
BeaconNewsOnline (Chicago): McDonald's is considering adding smoothies and specialty coffee drinks to the menus of its U.S. restaurants, the company's…
read nowDunkin' Donuts launches retail coffee line
February 28, 2007
CANTON, Mass. — Dunkin' Brands Inc. and Cincinnati-based Proctor & Gamble have signed an agreement to begin distributing Dunkin' Donuts packaged coffee to…
read nowRestaurant-industry outlook positive despite activity-index drop
February 27, 2007
Washington, D.C. — The National Restaurant Association's comprehensive index of restaurant activity registered its largest decline in 17 months, but the NRA…
read nowQSR stocks on the rise – Barron's
February 25, 2007
Reuters: Financial newspaper Barron's reported in its Feb. 26 edition that fast-food restaurant stocks are beating those of sit-down restaurant chains in the…
read nowDel Taco adds to seafood line
February 21, 2007
LAKE FOREST, Calif. — Del Taco is adding to its popular line of Crispy Fish and Shrimp Tacos, with new Papas and Fish or Shrimp menu items. Shrimp and Papas…
read nowStrange News: McDonald's clown kidnapped
February 13, 2007
KhouTV11: A statue of Ronald McDonald was stolen from a Houston McDonald's in early February, and police are still looking for clues as to the clown's…
read nowBurger King, Immokalee end tomato-picker wage talks
February 5, 2007
MIAMI — Burger King Corp. has declined to accept the "penny per pound" proposal submitted to them by the Coalition of Immokalee Workers' (CIW) to increase…
read nowTaco Bell offers K-Fed a job
February 1, 2007
Forbes: The Yum Brands Inc. chain Taco Bell is trying to convince would-be rap star Kevin Federline that he as a future "Thinking Outside The Bun." Federline…
read nowMcDonald's ad campaign heads to YouTube
January 30, 2007
MARKETING DAILY: McDonald's Corp. is searching for amateur videographers to develop video clips to support the rollout of its newest menu item, the Honey…
read nowBurger King testing trans fat-free oil
January 30, 2007
MIAMI — Burger King Corp. has begun in-restaurant testing of several trans fat-free cooking oils, the company announced. According to Burger King marketing…
read nowMcDonald's names Cargill as oil supplier
January 30, 2007
MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL BUSINESS JOURNAL: McDonald's Corp. has named Minnetonka, Minn.-based Cargill Inc. as its supplier of trans fat-free cooking oil. The…
read nowMcDonald's finds trans fat solution
January 29, 2007
Chicago Tribune: Following months of secret tests, Oak Brook, Ill.-based McDonald's Corp. announced it has found a suitable trans-fat-free oil. The company…
read nowMcDonald's adds to snack-wrap lineup
January 29, 2007
OAK BROOK, Ill. — Six months after the fast-food giant introduced its successful Ranch Snack Wrap, McDonald's Corp. is rolling out a Honey Mustard Wrap. Both…
read nowMore McDonald's staying open all night
January 28, 2007
MSNBC: In an effort to boost profits, McDonald's Corp. is becoming a 24-hour operation. About 40 percent of the Oak Brook, Ill.-based fast food giant's…
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