rolling new food laboratory inventions for american chain restaurants thread

yeah it's a value meal option

Not in Toronto :( Two cheeseburgers sounds so much more delicious than one. Mmm

http://gawker.com/arbys-to-air-thirteen-hour-commercial-in-duluth-minnes-1581041418

advertorial innervortion

How is buying a bunch of different shit and assembling it yourself a 'secret' menu item? Like, I've thought about putting a quarter pounder inside a whopper, is that a secret McD's/HJ's(BK's) menu item that?

Anyway, more interested in some of the things here. Apparently the "iconic" restaurants of each state.

https://www.ijreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/iconic-restaurants-thrilllist.jpg

First of all, wtf is 'Space Aliens'?!

https://www.ijreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/iconic-restaurants-thrilllist.jpg

?

Also I thought 'whataburger' was made up for Infinite Jest

for fucks sake

https://www.ijreview.com/2014/05/142401-ever-wondered-iconic-restaurant-chain-associated-state/

proud to be an ammuricun

Whataburger is quite a big deal here in TX

tell me about 'Space Aliens'!

And the Alaska Pizza Co.

http://i59.tinypic.com/adm1xd.jpg

space aliens does not look good but wtf

it's like naming your restaurant "ninjas"

I wish they had gone classier. "Whitley Streiber's Burger Communion."

"Nothing will be left behind when you eat at Whitley's!"

Whoops, wrong book series. Left Behind are the Christian ones.

awesome!

http://www.inforum.com/event/article/id/359641/

Also, there's only like, 4 restaurants, and half of them aren't even in North Dakota. Not sure if that qualifies the most popular brand in the state.

whataburger is ace! ate there when in dallas after hours a few years back, a very fine fast food establishment.

i can't help but talk like wimpy when i talk about hamburgers.

Wings to Go??? Pffft should have been Capriotti's.

'Blake's Iotaburger'?

Toilet themed restaurant near LA closes after 8 months.

http://la.eater.com/uploads/10_2013_BATHROOM_RESTAURANT-33df.JPG

http://la.eater.com/archives/2014/05/29/magic_restroom_cafe_craps_out_after_eight_months.php

Johnny we hardly knew ye.

As the first restroom eatery in the U.S., it featured some disgusting menu items like: "black poop" (chocolate sundae), "smells-like-poop" (braised pork over rice), "constipation" (zha jiang mian), "bloody number two" (vanilla-strawberry sundae).

what could have possibly gone wrong

the restrooms were mad fucked up tho

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"constipation" (zha jiang mian)

wtf?

That's a type of noodle

炸酱面

The toilet themed restaurants started in Taiwan, they're just jokesy places to go with friends and laugh at the joeks

The food is usually not great and chosen based on how much it resembles poop (like chocolate soft serve, or chocolate anything)

Like going to the Hard Rock Cafe or Johnny Rocket's or something

http://i.imgur.com/cpCwP4C.jpg

that kind of looks like the opposite of constipation tbf

That's mostly why I said 'wtf'. Also, it seems like a strange dish to show up at a SoCal fast food place with a tacky theme.

carl agatha OTM. I would nominate Grotto Pizza as a runner up. Jerry's kinda sucks imo, I think Ledo Pizza is more of a thing for Maryland people although I don't like it much myself.

Also, it seems like a strange dish to show up at a SoCal fast food place with a tacky theme.

― beard papa, Sunday, June 1, 2014 3:46 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark

Haven't read any articles but it's likely they just copied the Taiwanese one wholesale or it might even be an overseas franchise

Yes, it was a branch of the Taiwanese restaurant. I haven't been in the City of Industry for a long while, but it seems like an odd place to locate. It's mostly an industrial business area but it does have a high-end hotel complex. Woulda killed in Alhambra.

not a chain but
http://www.seriouseats.com/2014/05/our-top-10-burgers-in-atlanta-georgia.html

"Meatstick." If you saw that word listed on a menu—with zero accompanying description—would you tempt fate and order it? Let's hope so, 'cos the One Eared Stag's not-exactly-secret burger with the kooky codename (which comes from a never-released Phish song; how's THAT for obscure?) is well worth the leap of faith.

would not wanna eat produce from a chef who is familiar with unreleased Phish songs tbh

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/06/meet-taco-bells-resident-disruptor/373153/

Yeah, so here at Taco Bell, one of the great things about our company is that they are very understanding that the world is changing and the world is changing very quickly. Whether it's companies like Uber disrupting the taxi cab industry or Airbnb disrupting the hotel industry, disruption is happening everywhere and Taco Bell recognizes that. And the great thing about it was they sort of really embraced disruption and how do we do things differently, how do we reinvent what we do. And so my job here at Taco Bell is to really think about that.

Taco Bell: Digestion Disrupters

http://i.imgur.com/SWrMZve.jpg

is that like a microwavable Dorito treat or do they come straight out of the bag like that?

looks like a filthy good time

are these just cheese sticks only it's cheddar instead mozarella and there's dorito powder in the breading?

I would assume so

No word if they are served with a side of marinara sauce or Cool Ranch flavored ranch dressing

Fuck. I wish I could come up with this garbage.

it's not really the idea, it's the extensive breading experiments that make the idea viable

that's why we can't just give loaded doritos away to sub-saharan africans

These have probably been around for a while but last time I was in 7-11 they had these "secret flavor" Doritos in shiny foil bags that only have a number for a name so you don't know what they're going to taste like and I think they were being marketed as like "experimental" flavors. Like Russian roulette corn triangles.

Oh yeah! Haven't had them but I know of them from DORITOS POLL

I was hoping the breading was just crushed doritos

This was touched on earlier, but seeing this menu in real life gave me ptsd

http://www.tacobell.com/static_files/TacoBell/StaticAssets/images/food/menu/Menu_Breakfast_2014_A.jpg

Although I could go for some cinnabon bites tbqh

I really wanna try those. AM CRUNCHWRAP BABY.

yeah, I bet the AM crunchwrap is good.