For years, Chipotle fans have looked at their tortilla chips and thought about how much better they could be with a side of hot, gooey queso dip. The fast food company thought it was making that dream a reality… that is, until many customers tried the Chipotle queso and found it wanting. [More]
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Less Is More At Chili’s: Chain Cuts Menu By 40%
By 9.8.17
In a bid to avoid the continuously closing fate of chains like Joe’s Crab Shack, Outback Steakhouse, Bob Evans, and Logan’s Roadhouse, seminal restaurant chain Chili’s is downsizing — its menu, that is. [More]
Chipotle Bringing Drippy, Cheesy Queso To All Restaurants Next Week
By 9.5.17
Get your chips ready: Chipotle is taking its queso out off the test track and into all restaurants next week. [More]
Breaking News: It’s No Longer “Cool” To Eat Brains
By 8.24.17
Put down that fork! You were probably about to enjoy a delicious plate of steaming hot brains, but we’ve got news: Eating animal organs and entrails has become so normal in restaurants these days, it’s no longer cool to consume brains. [More]
Can Retailers Use Stealth Calorie Cuts To Get Shoppers To Eat Healthier?
By 8.23.17
While there is a large segment of the population always looking for healthier, lower-calorie food options, there are some shoppers who like the things they buy just the way they are — and who react negatively when their favorite foods are tweaked. Is there a way to get these folks consuming fewer calories? [More]
Taco Bell Has Decided To Inflict Taco With Fried Egg Shell On The Entire Country
By 8.15.17
Earlier this spring, Taco Bell continued its assault on the definition of “taco” by testing a new breakfast item in Michigan that involved putting stuff inside a fried egg and calling it a Naked Breakfast Taco. Now, the fast food giant is taking the item nationally. [More]
Cheesecake Factory Customers Say They Were Duped Into Leaving Big Tips
By 8.11.17
Even though we all now have phones with handy calculator apps, some restaurant diners are still confounded by the math when trying to sort out the tip, particularly when splitting the bill. Many restaurants now do the math for you and print a suggested tip on the receipt, but some Cheesecake Factory customers say the popular chain is enriching itself by suggesting misleading tips on split bills. [More]
Italy Is Europe’s Ice Cream Champ, Producing 6.8B Scoops Of Gelato In 2016
By 8.11.17
Hear that sound? It’s everyone in Italy, screaming for ice cream. Because if there’s one country that loves creamy frozen treats, it’s the home of gelato: Italy produced more ice cream last year than any other country in Europe. [More]
Food Scientist Envisions A Future Where “Super Nutritious Pizza” Exists
By 8.11.17
Sure, you may try to claim that “pizza is a vegetable” or that it’s healthy because you put some broccoli on top. Yes, we’re just fooling ourselves — but if one food scientist has his way, we could all be eating truly nutritious pizza in the future. [More]
Applebee’s Closing More Than 100 Locations, IHOP To Shutter 25 Restaurants
By 8.11.17
There could soon be fewer places to grab an app or order a stack of pancakes: Dine Equity, the company behind Applebee’s and IHOP, will close up to 160 locations of the chain restaurants this year in an attempt to trim costs and boost sales. [More]
Grocery Stores Jumping Into Meal Kit Market
By 8.9.17
Your mission? Make a delicious home-cooked meal for dinner. Here are your options: Walk around your massive local grocery store picking up each ingredient piece by piece, or walk into the store, grab a box full of pre-selected, pre-proportioned ingredients and walk out. Which would you choose? Grocery stores around the country are hoping it’s a variation of the latter, as they gear up to compete with online meal kit services. [More]
Here Are This Year’s 8 Most Ridiculously Calorie-Filled Chain Restaurant Meals
By 7.31.17
Fast food chains may, deservedly, get flack from public health advocates for their menus filled with salty, breaded, greasy grub, but most fast food meals have nothing on their sit-down restaurant cousins across the parking lot. A bacon cheeseburger may look like a healthy snack compared to the winners of this year’s Xtreme Eating awards. [More]
Here’s The Latest On Chipotle’s Foodborne Illness Nightmare
By 7.25.17
Between rodents falling from the ceilings to customers falling ill after eating at the fast casual chain, the last few weeks haven’t been exactly kind to Chipotle, and they don’t appear to be getting any better: Another customer has tested positive for norovirus after eating at one of the company’s Virginia locations. [More]
Bush’s Baked Beans Recalled Due To Defective Cans
By 7.24.17
Before you crack open a can of baked beans for your next backyard cookout, you should check to make sure they’re not included in a recent recall by Bush’s prompted by defective cans. [More]
Here’s How To Grill With Charcoal
By 7.21.17
If you’re the kind of person who loves the taste of a char-grilled steak but are intimidated by anything that involves more than flicking a switch, don’t despair: There are experts who can tell you exactly how to grill with charcoal at home. [More]
Spreads Are Dead: No One Likes Eating Margarine Anymore
By 7.20.17
For the last few years, Unilever — likely the world’s largest margarine maker — has been trying to figure out how to make spreads cool again in the eye of consumers. But despite its best efforts to adjust to changing consumers tastes, it looks like spreads are pretty much dead. [More]
Chipotle Reopening Virginia Store Closed Over Possible Norovirus
By 7.19.17
A Virginia Chipotle restaurant will reopen today after it was temporarily closed following reports that some customers became violently ill after eating there. [More]
7 Million Pounds Of Hot Dogs Recalled Because No One Wants To Eat Bone Shards
By 7.17.17
Before your next cookout, you may want to check that pack of franks in the fridge: A New York company is recalling more than seven million pounds of hot dog products after someone reported getting a bite of bone in their wiener. [More]
