Cadenas QSR/Restaurantes

Abril 21, 2010

McDonald's Announces Strong Sales and Earnings Growth for First Quarter 2010

McDonald's Corporation (NYSE: MCD) today announced strong results for the first quarter driven by all areas of the world. "McDonald's compelling menu, unmatched convenience and unbeatable value generated another strong quarterly performance,&quot...

Abril 21, 2010

Ganancia McDonald's 1er trim supera previsiones

McDonald's reportó el miércoles ganancias trimestrales que superaron los pronósticos de los analistas gracias al repunte del mercado estadounidense en marzo y a que las ventas globales mantuvieron el impulso durante abril. Las acciones de la mayor cad...

Abril 19, 2010

Improved restaurant results expected for 1Q

Restaurant companies releasing first-quarter results in the weeks ahead are expected to report improved sales trends, continued cost controls and a heightened sense that an industry recovery has begun, according to securities analysts.While severe wint...

Abril 15, 2010

Restaurants see slow recovery from the recession

On many weeknights last year, in the depths of the recession, Tursi’s Latin King restaurant in Des Moines closed one of its three dining rooms and pared its kitchen to a skeleton crew. Now, all three rooms are open on most nights, and the kitchen is b...

Hungry Jack's (Australian Franchise of Burger King)

Abril 13, 2010

Australian Hungry Jack's french fries now manufactured in Canada?

McCain Foods has told growers in Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania it requires 10 per cent less potatoes for the 2010-11 season and wants to cut the price by AU$45 per tonne. A meeting of potato growers at Ballarat last week angrily rejected Mc...

Abril 09, 2010

Analysts see start of restaurant recovery

After more than two years of slow sales and anemic guest traffic for restaurant operators, Wall Street analysts say a recovery in consumer spending may finally be here. “We officially declare that ‘the restaurant consumer recovery’ began in March 20...

Abril 08, 2010

Burger King's packaging innovations

While the economic climate could lead companies in the sector to cut back on the development of new packaging ideas, some, as Deanna Dixon Sievers, packaging manager at Burger King reveals to Packaging and Converting Intelligence (PCI), are pressing ah...

Abril 08, 2010

Apollo Management group bidding on CKE Restaurant group?

The rival buyout offer received by CKE Restaurants Inc. this week was from private-equity firm Apollo Management, Reuters reported Thursday. CKE, the Carpinteria, Calif.-based parent to the Carl’s Jr. and Hardee’s chains, has until April 27 to evalua...

Marzo 23, 2010

Yum! bets on China growth - and wins.

Maggie returned with her husband to his family home in Chuzhou on the eve of the Chinese New Year, just in time for the grand opening of the city's first KFC restaurant. She took her husband's nephews to the big event – and waited a half-hour just to ...

Marzo 22, 2010

Health Care bill causes big changes in Restaurant Industry

As President Barack Obama prepares to sign a sweeping health care reform bill into law, the foodservice industry faces changes of historic proportion. In addition to requiring many restaurant operators to contribute to health care coverage for their ...

Center for Science in the Public Interest

Marzo 21, 2010

Health Reform to Deliver Calorie Counts to Chain Restaurant Menus Nationwide

Tucked neatly inside the health reform legislation headed to the Oval Office for a presidential signature is langcode that will require calorie labeling on chain restaurant menus, menu boards, and drive-through displays, as well as on vending machines....

Marzo 17, 2010

New York City Restaurants to Display Letter Grades after Sanitary Inspections

New York City’s trailblazing Department of Health and Mental Hygiene voted yesterday to require the city’s restaurants to post letter grades reflecting the establishment’s cleanliness. That move was applauded today by the nonprofit Center for Science ...

Marzo 17, 2010

QSR same-store sales trends

Nearly all public restaurant companies reported fourth-quarter same-store sales results this month, and winter storms and lingering economic pressures pushed most into negative territory. Some, mainly because of value messaging, moved in a positive di...

Centro para la Ciencia en el Interés Público (CSPI por sus siglas en ingles)

Marzo 17, 2010

Los restaurantes de Nueva York obtendrán calificación según su nivel de higiene

Los restaurantes más limpios de Nueva York podrán pronto enarbolar su excelencia colocando la calificación 'A' en su entrada, mientras que los que reciban una mala nota ('B' o 'C') tendrán un mes para enmendarse. Según una directiva de los servicios ...

Marzo 15, 2010

Demand for potatoes drops as Americans eat fewer fries

A delicate global balance in potato trading, and the changes tastes of fry-shy boomers, are hammering the Maritimes potato patch, industry experts say. “U.S. people are eating out less these days,” McCain’s Canada spokesperson Calla Farn told the Sta...

Marzo 14, 2010

Do French Fries cause cancer?

A poster adorning the walls of KFC restaurants in California may just take your appetite away. Or at least make you consider giving up the fries. Here's what it says: "Cooked potatoes that have been browned, such as French fries, baked potatoes an...

Marzo 12, 2010

Other buyers interested in CKE Restaurants?

CKE Restaurants' $928 million buyout offer last month from a private-equity firm has sparked speculation that more suitors will line up for the Hardee's and Carl's Jr. parent, according to sources familiar with the restaurant M&A environment. One...

Marzo 11, 2010

McCain zet dippen op de kaart met Fry'n'Dip

Producent van frites- en aardappelspecialiteiten, McCain heeft een nieuw product in het assortiment. Fry'n'Dip is een aardappelsnack met een krokante bite en een verrassend zachte binnenkant. "Dippen is hip en daar hebben wij op ingespeeld met ...