QSR, Restaurant and Food Service Trends

New York City has issued nearly 700 citations to restaurant chains for not complying with new calorie posting rules. McDonald’s had most violations.The city has issued 682 violations to restaurant chains since a new law took effect five months ago requ...

Ciento quince establecimientos de McDonald's, la principal cadena mundial de comida rápida, fueron sancionados este jueves en Venezuela con un cierre de dos días por fallas en sus registros de compra y venta, informaron las autoridades tributarias.Los ...

Venezuela's tax body has shut all branches of McDonald's in the South American nation for 48 hours as punishment for alleged tax irregularities, the government said on Thursday.Thursday's announcement affects McDonald's 115 restaurants in Venezuela.

Yum! Brands Inc. Reports Strong Third-Quarter 2007 EPS Growth of 20% or $0.50 Per Share;Raises Full-Year EPS Growth Forecast to 13% from 12%;Plans $4 Billion in Share Repurchases Over Next Two Years. Yum! Brands Inc. (NYSE: YUM) today reported results ...

Wendy's really has flipped its wig. The No. 3 burger chain has elected to focus on adult consumers rather than "heavy fast-food users"ages 18-24—a move that some analysts are calling risky.While McDonald's and Burger King have enjoyed a rise ...

Holding onto current sales and customers has jumped to the top priority for entrepreneurial operations like restaurants, surpassing such usual imperatives as growing the business, according to research released Thursday by American Express. Small busin...

California se convirtió el martes en el primer estado estadounidense que exigirá que las cadenas de comida rápida anuncien las calorías en su menú. El estado estima que sus residentes colectivamente han aumentado 165 millones de kilos en la última déc...

Burger King Corp. (NYSE:BKC) announced today that all BURGER KING(R) restaurants nationwide are now cooking with trans fat free cooking oils. Furthermore, by Nov. 1, 2008, all BURGER KING(R) menu ingredients will contain zero grams artificial trans f...

Yum! Brands, Inc. (NYSE:YUM) today announced that its U.S. divisions, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, Long John Silver’s and A&W All-American Food, will become the first national restaurant chains to begin voluntarily placing product ...

California on Tuesday became the first U.S. state to require fast-food restaurant chains to list calories on their menus.The state estimates that residents collectively have gained 360 million pounds (165 million kg) in the last decade, and it sees the...

Triarc Companies, Inc. (NYSE: TRY;TRY.B), the parent company of Arby's Restaurant Group, Inc., which is the franchisor of the Arby's(R) restaurant system, and Wendy's International, Inc. (NYSE: WEN), announced today that they have completed their merg...

GE Capital Solutions, Franchise Finance, the largest restaurant lender by assets and clients, confirmed Friday it would be “much more selective” and defer rate quotes on new deals as the credit chill that began last year becomes a freeze in the face of...

Burger King is breaking a national TV and social-networking campaign on Facebook and MySpace today that plays off the Nov. 4 presidential election. BK says the campaign’s aim is to encourage its customers to vote.  The TV spot is a montage of real Burg...

McDonald's Corp. told some U.S. franchisees to seek other ways to finance store improvements after Bank of America Corp. declined to increase lending. Store owners have exhausted financing used to pay for upgrades and equipment to make lattes and espr...

Recently, the Moms' Quality Correspondents concluded their second year of unprecedented access to the McDonald's® system of owner/operators, executives and Supply Chain with Lamb Weston, one of McDonald's Potato Suppliers for McDonald’s Hash Browns and...

Triarc Companies, Inc. (NYSE: TRY;TRY.B), the parent company of Arby’s Restaurant Group, Inc. which is the franchisor of the Arby’s® restaurant system, and Wendy's International, Inc. (NYSE: WEN), announced today that their respective shareholders have...

La cadena de comida rápida ha esquivado un mes mas a la crisis y ha aumentado sus ventas comparables en agosto un 8,5%, con lo que ha superado las estimaciones efectuadas por los analistas. Las acciones de la blue chip se disparan un 3%. No obstante,...

As a long-standing cornerstone of KFC, world's most popular chicken restaurant chain, Sanders' Original Recipe ranks among America's most valuable trade secrets. "The concept of having a secret recipe is priceless and it provides KFC with a meanin...