We’ve all seen pictures the ‘McDonald’s of the Future’ that opened earlier this year in St. Jo., MO. And we’ve all seen the new ordering kiosks that McD’s is rolling out across the continent. And we’ve been introduced to some very new menu items and service policies. But how about premium tableware?Read More →
Two very separate McDonald’s promotions have caused massive comment – much of it negative – over the past two weeks. One involves backlash over special-edition ‘rainbow’ fry sleeves for Pride Week and the other revolves around a ‘stoner-targeted’ billboard for the chain’s Breakfast Burritos…Read More →
We’ve been bombarded, in the past couple of decades, by claims and assertions from bakers, healthy eating advocates and others telling us that eating the wrong kind of Bread will harm us. Some of the most ardent have even warned, “White Bread will kill you!” A new study says that just ain’t so…Read More →
Summer is here – unofficially – and the Fast Food kingdom is declaring its love for the season with a whole flock of limited time come-backs for legacy menu items. And the first Nutella Café is now open in Chicago. We wonder if the concept has the ‘legs’ to become more than a just a passing fancy…Read More →
Do you remember the post I wrote, in this space, earlier this year, in which I told the story of a Quebec grandmother who makes Maple Syrup, who was stomped on by the province’s Syrup monopoly after selling her products outside the walls? Now, she’s been stomped flat by the courts…Read More →
Here’s a kind of food-related survey you don’t hear about every day. A U.S. Dairy Industry group asked a series of dairy-related questions to a thousand Americans and the results were either humourous or shocking, depending on how you view them. Seems Americans don’t know much about Milk…Read More →
I did it. I actually wrote a Letter to the Editor of my town’s leading newspaper this morning. I was tired of hearing from boutique business owners in the trendy parts of town talking down their less affluent, less independent fellow business people for complaining that the a rise to $15 per hour might ruin them…Read More →
Tim Horton’s franchisees are unhappy with their masters, the holding company that also owns Burger King, even though profits are up and the chain can still claim to serve Canada’s most loved Coffee. The problem is the corporate style that is trickling down from above since the chain was bought out…Read More →