Cadenas QSR/Restaurantes

Boston has joined others cities in banning artery-clogging trans fats from food served in restaurants and grocery stores. Businesses, as well as schools and hospitals, will have to stop using oils and spreads that contain trans fats. Prepackaged foods...

Restaurants, which have been slumping for two years because of a slew of short-term factors, are waking up to a worrisome long-term trend: The number of harried working moms isn't growing the way it was. For decades, the steady increase of working wom...

Yum! Brands, Inc today announced that Sam Su, 55, has been appointed to the Board of Directors as Vice Chairman, maintaining his position as President of the China Division. He will continue to reside in Shanghai in this capacity for the long-term

Monsanto Co. and Cargill Inc. are trying to persuade farmers in Iowa and elsewhere to grow the Vistive soybean variety. The two companies began the recruiting effort Tuesday, offering 50 to 60 cents more a bushel for Monsanto's Vistive-brand low lino...

La cadena estadounidense de restauración McDonald's incrementó un 8,6% interanual sus ventas comparables en febrero, mientras que en términos mensuales el aumento fue del 11,7%, debido a la favorable situación del cambio de divisas y por los efectos de...

McDonald's Corp. said Monday that February sales at restaurants open more than a year jumped a better-than-expected 11.7 percent, boosted by growth in Europe, the weak dollar and the benefit of an extra selling day this year. Two straight months of so...

Its salads were a novel addition copied by its biggest competitor. Its baked potatoes and chili remain unique fixtures on its menu. Its value menu has indisputably become an industry staple. But Wendy's International Inc.'s history of innovation is ...

After rising steadily for much of 2007, shares of McDonald’s Corp. have fallen off roughly 8% so far this year on weakening trends in the fast food industry. But the stock may soon get a lift now that those trends appear to have improved in February,...

Have it your way - you're out of business. That's the message from Burger King to the owners of two midtown franchises who have been embroiled in a food fight with the company over the restaurant chain's value menu. Luan Sadik and his sister, Elizabeth...

Arby’s Restaurant Group, Inc., a subsidiary of Triarc Companies, Inc. announced today that it exceeded its development goals for 2007 with the opening of 148 Arby’s restaurants and the signing of new commitments to open an additional 197 restaurants th...

McDonald's Corporation anunció hoy que José Armario ha sido designado Presidente de Grupo de McDonald's Canadá y América Latina, con vigencia inmediata. Armario ha sido el Presidente de McDonald's América Latina desde 2003.

Fast food companies are feeling the squeeze. On one hand, sales are growing in the emerging markets abroad. At the same time, however, the quick-service restaurants also are wrestling with a slowdown in their home U.S. market, and a backlash from med...

McDonald's Corporation today announced that Jose Armario has been appointed Group President of McDonald’s Canada and Latin America effective immediately. Armario has been President of McDonald’s Latin America since 2003. In his expanded role, Armario ...

Restaurants in Europe, the United States and Japan are testing technology to let diners order their food direct from a screen at their table instead of depending on a fellow human being to note their choice. Besides cutting costs, companies that sell ...

Lawyers for Burger King failed to have a lawsuit over the company’s use of artificial trans fat dismissed. The Center for Science in the Public Interest sued the chain in May 2007 because it is the only one of the three top burger chains not to promise...

Wendy's International Inc is aiming to roll out inexpensive sandwich wraps and a new hamburger to increase sales as the U.S. economy weakens, Chief Executive Kerrii Anderson said on Tuesday. "The consumer environment from a year ago has changed d...

McDonald’s has taken its lumps in the past for its high-calorie menu options, but now the fast feeder has become a textbook example of how to change with the times.For the first time, McDonald’s topped the “Brand Keys Customer Loyalty Engagement Index ...

Many New York City restaurants are going green and the y do so in different ways. Lately, when restaurateurs create a menu or settle on a design, they’re considering the environment along with the cuisine. Some do it to save money and others to tap int...