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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 ...

Potato Harvest is around three quarters complete in Manitoba according to the potato specialist with Manitoba Agriculture. Tom Gonsalves says producers in some areas are already finished while harvest is fully underway in other regions.He says importan...

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...

Punjab is expecting to bring 75,000 hectares of land under potato cultivation this rabi season with a total output of 16 lakh metric tonnes. "We have targeted to bring 75,000 hectares of land under potato cultivation this season and we are hoping ...

Ballooning vegetable oil stocks and fast-declining interest from funds in volatile commodities may hold off a recovery in palm oil prices until next year despite its fall to a level much lower than rival soyoil.Palm oil's discount to soy oil has more t...

Sabritas, la mayor productora y comercializadora de botas saladas en el país, incrementó recientemente 12.5% el precio de sus principales productos en algunas zonas de la Ciudad de México. La semana pasada, la unidad en México de Frito-Lay, Sabritas i...

De verwerking van aardappelen tot consumptieproducten in Nederland is over de periode januari t/m augustus 2008 al bijna 116.000 ton (+ 5,5%) hoger dan in de periode januari t/m augustus 2007. Totaal is er over de eerste 8 maanden van 2008 2.156.200 t...

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...

PepsiCo (NYSE: PEP ) announced today that it has made significant progress toward its long-term environmental sustainability goals, which include reducing water consumption by 20 percent, electricity consumption by 20 percent and fuel consumption by 25...

McDonald's Corp will speed up its expansion drive in central and eastern Europe to tap into the region's vibrant growth and increasingly affluent middle class, its No. 2 official said.Over the last several years, McDonald's has not grown significantly ...

Wisconsin potato farmers produced 28.2 million hundredweight of potatoes during the 2007 growing year on 64,000 acres. The state's agriculture department says 94-percent of that crop was sold as either fresh market, processing or seed potatoes. The rem...