Oak Brook-based McDonald’s Corp. signaled the impending demise of the Big N’ Tasty, Mac Snack Wraps and the fruit and walnut salad, among other items. At the same time, McDonald’s is gearing up for a planned national rollout in January of an oatmeal breakfast, currently being test-marketed.
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Subway to start ‘tessellating’ its cheese
Tessellated cheese on a Subway sandwich designed to provide full cheese coverage. (Tribune)
Subway franchisees on Thursday will begin placing triangular cheese slices on the chain’s subs. Instead of being positioned end to end with overlap, the cheese points will alternate facing up and down along your sandwich. To the geometrically inclined, the term is “tessellating” — positioning shapes in a pattern without overlap and with no gaps.
Heir to McDonald’s fortune robbed, beaten in home
From the New York Daily News | Geoffrey McDonald, an heir of the founders of the McDonald’s, and his wife were attacked in their home in the south of France by thieves who stole more than $376,000 in money and jewelry.
Look what’s brewing near top of the Hancock
Need a little lift when you’re 94 floors up?
The John Hancock Observatory’s Lavazza cafe now offers a full bar complete with Lavazza Colada, Cafe; Jamaica and After Coffee, espresso with chocolate gelato, crushed ice, peppermint liqueur and whipped cream. Get the full story »
June 25, 2010 at 10:46 a.m.
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Filed under: Chicago executives, Food, Management, Restaurants Head of Flat Out Crazy looks to expand chain
From Restaurant News | Greg Carey, president and chief operating officer of Chicago-based Flat Out Crazy Restaurant Group, says his company plans to start growing again over the next 18 months and has secured $8 million from U.S. Bank and HillStreet Fund IV to do it. The company owns Rainforest Cafe and P.F. Chang’s China Bistro, and is now targeting Texas, the Rocky Mountain states and the mid-Atlantic region for developing about six Stir Crazy casual-dining restaurants and about nine fast-casual Flat Top Grills, where guests create their own stir-frys.
June 25, 2010 at 6:19 a.m.
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Filed under: China, Food, Franchises, International, Restaurants McDonald’s strikes deal to expand in China
U.S. fast-food giant McDonald’s Corp. formed a five-year strategic alliance Friday with China subway operator Shenzhen Metro Group Co. under which McDonald’s will have first pick of the prime retail spots in the subway operator’s underground commercial spaces and above ground property projects. Get the full story »
Francesca’s Restaurants says hello to Wisconsin
Francesca’s Restaurants is taking its menu on the road to Wisconsin, its first market outside of the Chicago area.
The Chicago-based chain, which has grown to 20 locations since its first Italian restaurant opened on North Clark Street in 1992, said it will open a restaurant on July 7 on Madison’s Capital Square. The eatery will operate under the name Francesca’s al Lago.
TGI Friday’s sues to block Rosemont Tilted Kilt
The casual restaurant chain TGI Friday’s Inc. has sued to stop the owner of a Rosemont development from entering into a lease with another eatery in the plaza.
Fulcrum Asset Advisors LLC’s plan to rent space to the Tilted Kilt Pub & Eatery would violate the terms of TGI Friday’s lease, the restaurant chain said in a suit filed Monday in Cook County. TGI Friday’s opened a restaurant in Rosemont in 2008 in a development known as Northwest Plaza on Higgins Road. Get the full story »
12 more Wingstops on tap for Chicago area
From Crain’s Chicago Business | Wingstop Restaurants, the Dallas-based chicken-wing chain, plans to add 12 locations in the Chicago area in the next two years to the 14 it already operates here.
Gulf oyster shortage hits Red Lobster’s menu
The Gulf oil spill is forcing the removal of oysters from Red Lobster’s menu.
A Franklin, La., processing plant that provided Darden Restaurants with oysters for its Red Lobster chain shut down last week because it was unable to maintain its supply. AmeriPure Processing Co.’s co-owner and founder said the closure could last through October. Get the full story »
‘Food police’ go after Happy Meals toys
A Washington-based consumer advocacy group threatened to sue McDonald’s Tuesday, charging that the fast food chain “unfairly and deceptively” markets toys to children through its Happy Meals.
“McDonald’s marketing has the effect of conscripting America’s children into an unpaid drone army of word-of-mouth marketers, causing them to nag their parents to bring them to McDonald’s,” Stephen Gardner of the Center for Science in the Public Interest wrote to the heads of the chain in a letter announcing the lawsuit.
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June 22, 2010 at 1:26 p.m.
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