Fast Food Week: Quick Service Restaurant and Snacks News!
Many top-tier players seem to be taking a breather from the eternal marketing merry-go-round this week. Let Easter take its ma-jestic and inevitable course. DO note the towering Triple Burgers from Carls’. And Jer-sey Mike’s new Chicken Salad Sub!Read More →
A Serious Look At Personally-Tailored Therapeutic Diets
Over the past 6 months, a we’ve been seeing comments from diet and health researchers that we’re heading to a future where ‘you are what you eat’ will take on a whole new dim-ension. We’re talking about ‘prescribing’ certain foods to treat specific ills…Read More →
BULLETIN: Eat More Bananas To Beat Down High BP?
We’ve heard that it’s important to control our sodium (salt) intake if we want to control high blood pressure. Nothing new there. But now, researchers say it’s even better if we add high potassium foods to our diets, to balance our sodium-to-potassium ratios…Read More →
Kraft Smoky BBQ Mac & Cheese A Summer ‘Hail Mary’?
It sounds as if Kraft suddenly discovered its test kitchens hadn’t churned our something new for Summer 2025. And fast-tracked what may have seemed an obvious winner to the shelves. But Smoky BBQ Mac and Cheese may prove to be a really bad idea…Read More →
Value Wars: McDonald’s Vs. Chili’s On The Burger Front!
It’s the second major Burger-specific announ-cement in the Fast Food Value War in a week… And the third to involve a traditionally non-Burger power. What’s going on with Chilis, that it’s coming out of left field, targeting McDon-ald’s on McD’s home ground?Read More →
Starbuck’s Changes-Up The Uniforms For Its Baristas
What’s so important about upgrading Star-buck’s barista unifroms that it rates a front-line news release of its own in the ongoing odyssey that is the premium coffee brand’s arduous renaissance? And why is the ‘renais-sance’ taking so long?Read More →
Resurrected Family-Fave Special-Occasion Sweet Treat!
I recently went looking for a specific family-favourite, sweet-treat recipe I was sure was buried somewhere in my Mom’s ‘ family lega-cy’ collection. And literally rediscovered a small but treasured trove beloved of desserts and snacks I hadn’t had for decades!Read More →
Has Long-Predicted ‘Snacking Recession’ Finally Begun?
I and other Foodsphere observers have been saying that an overall recession in the Snacks Industry was due. In company with an inevi-table drop in junk food consumption as the stuff gets more expensive, and folks become more concerned with healthy eating…Read More →