Fast Food Week: Quick Service Restaurant And Snacks News!
The Fast Food new products mill is working overtime! A bumper crop of 20 items made the roster this week… Among them, a number of Value Menu unveilings, a couple of movie premiere tie-ins, and a whole slew of summer menu reveals…Read More →
McBacklash: McDonald’s Value Menu Gets Mixed Reviews
You’d think any attempt to lower food prices – even Fast Food menu prices – would be met with positive reviews. But McDonald’s new McValue Menu is getting serious backlash from fans. It’s all about ‘the good old days’, and 99-cent burgers…Read More →
M&C Mania: Chef Boyardee, Buldak Get In The Game
Everybody in the pasta business is getting into ‘enhanced’ Mac & Cheese! The latest entrants are polemically opposite in heritage but dead-centre in the noodle market. Chef Boyardee and Buldak are both launching new ‘breakout’ products…Read More →
‘The One Ingredient You Should Never Add to Guacamole’
This headline struck me as more than a bit pretentious. You’re telling me what to like? Or dislike? Get orf it, mate! But I quickly realized the value of the AllRecipes post as a ‘teach-able moment’… Both about Guacamole and preference preaching…Read More →
‘Good News’: Indie Grocers Snag 40% Of US Food Sales!
If you thought lower prices were a hopeless quest – like the Holy Grail – you may be in luck. A new survey reveals that smaller, inde-pendent grocery stores are far from extinct. In fact, independents still account for almost half of US grocery sales…Read More →
Cargill Launches ‘Future-Proof’ Cocoa-Free Chocolate in US
Soaring cocoa prices have driven chocolate products (almost?) out of the average con-sumer’s reach. And that trend has triggered a burgeoning interest in alt-coca products. And that’s why food processing giant Cargill has launched NextCoa…Read More →
Swiss Chalet Sauce: Another Lost Canadian Masterpiece…
One of the first commercially-concocted ‘lost culinary treasures’ that I came into contact with was Swiss Chalet’s famous dipping sauce. Of course, it wasn’t lost back then. But the Chalet has faded into the family-resto back-ground in recent years…Read More →
DOJ Launches Antitrust Probe Into Top Beef Producers
It’s about time. Beef Producers have been defending their soaring prices with vague economic ref-erences. Now, the US Justice Department is taking affirmative action. The DOJ has launched an antitrust investigation into the US Beef industry…Read More →