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The 350 to 400 Wendy's workers who lost their jobs in July finally may be able to get their unpaid wages covered by a $350,000 gift fund set up by Wendy's International. The Dublin, Ohio-based restaurant chain announced today that the money has been ...

ConAgra Foods, Inc. announced today that it has acquired Chicago-based Lincoln Snacks, a privately-held popcorn snacks manufacturer. Lincoln Snacks' priority brands include Poppycock and Fiddle Faddle and various retailers' private label products. The...

Americans love their spuds, consuming 130 pounds per person annually. Now that culinary love affair could grow even more passionate with Agricultural Research Service (ARS) findings that some potato varieties are packed with health-promoting compounds...

A Japanese government website crashed Wednesday as people raced to take up an offer of a half-price McDonald's hamburger in exchange for pledging to fight global warming. The Japanese unit of the US burger giant Tuesday offered a Big Mac for 150 yen (1...

The battle for the jaded palates of pub snack enthusiasts has entered a new phase with the latest launch from Welsh manufacturer Real Crisps. Sour Cream &Cotswold Wild Garlic joins the premium Real Chips range, available at the end of September in...

Walkers Snacks is shunning television in favour of a sampling and direct mail campaign that will target health professionals, as well as consumers, for the £3m launch of its new SunBites brand. The wholegrain crisps will be launched on September 17. ...

The U.S.'s largest microwave popcorn maker, ConAgra Foods Inc. (CAG), said it will change the recipe for its Orville Redenbacher and Act II brands over the next year to remove diacetyl, a flavoring chemical linked to a lung ailment in popcorn plant wor...

McDonald's Holdings Co. (Japan) said Tuesday same-store sales at its hamburger outlets in Japan hit a monthly record in August.Sales in August rose 11.3 pct from a year before to 46,394 million yen, eclipsing the previous record of 43,047 million yen s...

La papa, una hortaliza clave en la dieta de los argentinos, aumentó un 50% en las últimas semanas y ya preocupa al Gobierno, que decidió incentivar la importación para frenar el alza. A tal punto llegó la preocupación que se decidió crear un registro ...

De Heer is op 1 juni dit jaar aangetreden bij Avebe en is op 1 augustus de vorige bestuursvoorzitter Okke Koo opgevolgd. Raad van Commissaris voorzitter Hans Hoekman zegt dat er geen verschil van mening is over de koers van Avebe. “De beslissing van ...

Supermarket operator Kroger Co. said it recalled Kroger brand Mustard and Southern-Style potato salad with a "best if used by"date of Sept. 5 from sale in its stores because it may contain E. coli O157:H7. To date, no illnesses have been repo...

Cambodia's Royal Group Co. Ltd. published a statement here on Saturday announcing that it will form a joint venture with Malaysian firms to bring the fast-food giant the Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) into the kingdom. This marks the first entry of a maj...