News on QSR, Restaurant and Food Service Trends from the United States

Mintel Menu Insights, which tracks restaurant menu trends, says the average kids’ menu doesn’t offer enough variety or healthy food, even as parents, kids and chefs alike call out for better options.Analyzing kids’ menus from 2005 to the present, Minte...

LA CADENA estadounidense de comida rápida ganó 200,1 millones de dólares (139 millones de euros) en el ejercicio fiscal cerrado el pasado 30 de junio. Las ventas anuales crecieron el 3%, gracias al aumento del 14% en sus establecimientos de Estados Uni...

Burger King Holdings Inc. (NYSE:BKC) today reported results for the fourth quarter and the full 2009 fiscal year ended June 30, 2009.Fourth Quarter Highlights: Strong development growth continued with net restaurant count increasing by 115 Worldwide ...

Until this year, Bassam Odeh had no way of knowing whether an employee at his fast-food restaurants had left open the door to the freezer or the walk-in cooler. Now he gets a text message whenever that happens. Joseph Harberg, a partner with Dallas-ba...

McDonalds (MCD) has been vilified by a number of movies and books, including Fast Food Nation. The company is a favorite punching bag for environmental and nutritional activists. While Big Mac's are hardly health food, the company has diversified its m...

Las ventas mundiales de la transnacional de comida rápida habrían experimentado un incremento en 4.3%, por encima de las proyecciones. Europa lideró las subidas con un crecimiento del 7.2%, gracias al impulso de los mercados francés y británico, mientr...

Basic American Foods, the largest manufacturer of dehydrated potato products in the United States offers a program called "Menu Economics". This program is designed to help restaurant owners and foodservice professionals with regards to menu...

Carrols Restaurant Group Inc., the largest Burger King franchisee, provided the first official glimpse into the No. 2 burger brand’s latest sales trends, and it wasn’t good.While analysts and observers have predicted that Burger King sales trends would...

“There are people that are huge fans of fresh crinkle cut fries,” according to Ken Schiller, owner of the newly opened Mighty Fine Burgers Fries Shakes in Austin, Texas, “If it’s frozen, it’s no good.” Schiller tested thirteen different size fries with...

One of the country's leading manufacturers of frozen potatoes worked more than 20 years trying to perfect a french fry vending machine, with little success. In the 1990s, another company promised just such a machine but foundered amid allegations that...

There are 4,000 fewer restaurants in the United States this spring than there were last spring, according to The NPD Group, a leading market research company. NPD’s Spring 2009 ReCount®, which is a census of commercial restaurant locations in the Unite...

McDonald's proved Thursday it's not immune from the world's economic problems, as the fast-food giant disclosed June sales (McDonald's Q2 results) that were below Wall Street's expectations, prompting a selloff in its stock.McDonald's shares fell $2.73...

Most Denny's meals are dangerously high in sodium, putting the restaurant chain's customers at greater risk of high blood pressure, heart attack and stroke, according to a class action lawsuit filed today by a New Jersey man with the support of the Ce...

At first glance, the menu at La Papa may fail to impress some jaded NYC diners. After all, it’s “just” a place that sells topped baked potatoes. But to dismiss La Papa so quickly would be doing both the restaurant, and yourself, a disservice. Modeled ...

How's this for a global marketing strategy? Each month target a different international market with an ad that offends some segment of the population, then, after earning a lot of media attention, apologize and pull the ad.   That's the pattern of off...

Chain restaurant operators throughout California said they are prepared to comply this week with the first phase of a state menu-labeling mandate, but many noted that preparation did not immediately include posting calories on menus and menu boards. Be...

Newly released research from a trio of sources points to slowed restaurant industry sales trends and weakened consumer confidence in the early summer months, snapping a string of recent positive news that had sparked operator optimism.The National Rest...

In New York City, it was a straightforward suggestion that left a lingering aftertaste in many people’s mouths: The city’s Department of Health and Hygiene exhorted restaurants and food manufacturers and the marketers serving them to reduce sodium cont...