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Recipe for Success; Bill in State Senate Aims to Encourage Restaurants’...
For Conor McCann to get fresh ingredients for his Piggy Pat’s B-BQ menu items, he doesn’t have to look far. A lot of the ingredients used in Piggy Pat’s recipes are a stone’s throw away: pork from...
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A Sure Sign of Spring
Snow fell softly, dropping a thin film of white in the parking lot of Nicky Doodles in North Utica. It didn’t have time to gather on the lids of the 3-gallon tubs of Hershey’s Ice Cream quickly making...
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Trendier Fare Takes Bite Out of Casual Dining
Casual dining is in the throes of a midlife crisis. A quarter-century ago, consumers feasted on fried appetizers, unlimited breadsticks and big desserts at Applebee’s, Olive Garden and Chili’s. Today,...
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Panera Expands Pay-Say-You-Want Concept to One Menu Item in St. Louis Cafes
It started off nearly three years ago as a small experiment at a Clayton cafe to test whether people would be willing to pay full price — or more — when there are no set prices so those in need can pay...
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Too big to sell? McDonald’s looks at super-sized menu
Medill Reports Chicago Darren Tristano, Executive Vice president at Technomic, Inc., weighs in on balancing McDonald’s expansive menu with consumer demand. Click to view the video (please allow a few...
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Old Casual-Dining Chains Stuck in the Middle Restaurants like Applebee’s and...
Casual dining is in the throes of a midlife crisis. A quarter-century ago, consumers feasted on unlimited breadsticks and big desserts at Applebee’s, Olive Garden and Chili’s. Today, many Americans are...
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Restaurants Hope Tax Refunds Bring Customers
Payroll tax increases and high gasoline prices have pushed consumers to dine out less. But tax refunds, which are rolling in, may bring relief to the limping restaurant industry. “Payroll tax takes its...
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Reclaim Your Angus: CEO Goes on Offense Against McDonald’s
It’s the advertising equivalent of rubbing a burger in a competitor’s face. Following McDonald’s decision to do away with its Angus Third Pounders, the CEO of CKE Restaurants, the parent company of...
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Popular Fast Food Outlets Never Heard of Yet
Karachi: The most famous fast-food restaurants are burger joints: McDonald’s (MCD), Wendy’s (WEN), Burger King (BKW). But Americans have been in the mood for something different lately, and many of the...
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Eating Ethnic: Traffic Drivers & Attitudes
For ethnic fare, U.K. consumers seek restaurants and menus that offer both an authentic taste and authentic ambiance. It’s no surprise that consumer interest in and demand for ethnic foods at...
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Fast-Casual Pizza Segment Heats Up
Several of the emerging fast-casual players claim to have created the build-your-own pizza concept, but the better question is who will be left standing. More than a dozen brands have debuted in the...
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Blaze Pizza on Path to Developing Fast-Casual Pizzeria Network in Central Ohio
Sbarro LLC isn’t the only restaurant chain looking to make dough on the fast-casual pizza business in Columbus. Pasadena, Calif.-based Blaze Pizza LLC, the operator of Blaze Fast-Fire’d Pizza eateries,...
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Technomic Asks: Is Restaurant ‘Made-to-Order Pizza’ the Next ‘Better Burger’?
Chicago, July 30, 2013, PRNewswire –Many wonder what the restaurant industry’s next hot concept will be. The fast-casual segment, in particular, has already launched numerous proven winners, including...
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Flavors of the World
Pizza and ethnic cuisines lend themselves to customer-created entrées. Although most restaurants will change ingredients in an entrée to meet a guest’s request, a growing number of pizza and ethnic...
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Why More Extreme Foods Are Creeping Onto Menus
For Americans who haven’t been to a state fair recently or who are unacquainted with Paula Deen’s style of Southern comfort food, this may come as a surprise: Some people make sandwiches with...
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Industry Evolution
U.S. restaurant chains of all stripes are taking on fast-casual attributes to evolve their concepts and remain relevant to consumers. Change is one of the few constants in the restaurant industry....
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Family Restaurants a Casualty to Casual
When Gene Kasapis Sr. opened the first Ram’s Horn restaurant in 1967 in Greektown, family dining was one of the largest segments of the restaurant industry. Since reaching an apex six years ago, sales...
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Olive Garden Woos Millennials with Smaller Portions
Olive Garden, purveyor of the Never Ending Pasta Bowl, has discovered portion control. In an effort to attract millennials and boost flagging sales, Darden Restaurants Inc.’s Italian restaurant chain...
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Burger King Debuts Low-Calorie French Fries
Looking for an edge against its quick-serve rivals, Burger King is introducing healthier french fries, dubbed “Satisfries,” today at all of its 7,200 U.S. outlets. Satisfries contain 40 percent less...
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For American Restaurant Chains, the Future is Mexican
Yum! Brands’ (YUM) most profitable fast-food chain in the U.S. isn’t Pizza Hut or KFC–for years, it’s been Taco Bell. With the success of Doritos Locos Tacos, the upscale Cantina Bell menu, and...
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