rolling new food laboratory inventions for american chain restaurants thread

“Millennials really are the core of our late-night strategy,” Jennifer Kennedy, Jack’s director of innovation and social engagement, told BurgerBusiness.com in an interview. “Whether they’re studying late or working a night shift they’ve been pivotal to the late-night daypart. So we wanted an instant-win game that appealed to them. We know that Millennials like to make a game of things, whether participating in online video games or through social networks or being the first to do or know or own something. We made Jack’s Munchie Peel simple: You peel; you win.”

“We know Millennials are always looking to try something different,” Innovation Manager Katherine Cerrito told BurgerBusiness.com. “The Chick-n-Tater Melt is the kind of savory product you’re craving at midnight and not necessarily something you’d want for your lunch or dinner. Millennials like to try new things and share experiences on social channels. They can say ‘Look what I have: A chicken sandwich with hashbrowns on top and it’s amazing!’”

that's what you boomers don't understand about us millennials, we like to say "Look what I have: A chicken sandwich with hashbrowns on top and it’s amazing!"

fucking millennials with their munchie peels and hashbrowns thanks obama

millennials are annoying so we wanted to create something really annoying that they could hopefully annoy the world with

Why not just call that shit the Tweetburger and get it over with.

It'd be cool of a jack in the box employee had to start a twitter account for my chicken sandwich and tweet in its voice while @ing me up until I ate it

http://twitter.com/JackBox/status/515006720708329472

Yo millenial, I heard you like munchies on your hashbrown peels

http://www.xojane.com/fun/arbys-meat-mountain

http://www.xojane.com/files/IMG_7251.jpg

hey whered my meat mountain go!!

anyway

http://www.motherjones.com/media/2014/09/taco-bell-menu-jurafsky-language-food

this guy sounds like the dumbest professor stanford has ever hired

holy shit, he pointed out that taco bell isn't fine dining. that's going to blow some minds!

real cheese

real taco

wow that guy proved taco bell isn't a fancy restaurant??

not even the fancy taco bell with a skull logo

Cool how the professor explained how an ñ worked. Not sure he knows what a hipster is, either. Or, for that matter, possesses any knowledge not held by anybody older than 14.

knows how to get a book deal

Taco Bell hides secret meanings in its marketing material? No shit

http://i.imgur.com/KQ4yzN6.jpg

Local pizza place has invented the crown pizza. This is the cheeseburger variant, they also have a hot dog one and a few others.

http://www.worldpizzakitchen.com/images/48f13dfc2e85baf44f1a058ea847f141_e13q.jpg

i never notice that taco bell eye thing; that's gonna bother me everytime i see it now

yeah taco bell eye is kinda O_O

That pizza does kinda look like something is crowning

Think it might be an egg cluster for these guys

http://i57.tinypic.com/21loqye.jpg

http://www.burgerbusiness.com/?p=18869

The Janney survey also finds that McDonald’s operators are heavily relying on the current Monopoly promotion to stop the ongoing sales slide. “Everything depends on Monopoly,” one franchisee told Kalinowski.

One franchisee said, “McRib should prevent further declines.”

“We are leaderless,” says one franchisee. “McDonald’s Corp. is scrambling to find answers to their problem,” says another.

The answer = Cheeseburgers with Frito Lays topping

hellp us help usss
sanctuary! sanctuary!

“McDonald’s Corp. is scrambling to find answers to their problem,”

https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1061/5146218745_2315a7a8ac.jpg

Every year, the monopoly game manages another round. The rules are complicated, the tabs you peel off is printed in Greek hieroglyphics. And yet, craigslist and the print classifieds are filled with the I'VE GOT PARK PLACE, LET'S SPLIT THE DIFFERENCE ads. It's a fast food franchise contest based upon an 80-year-old board game everyone hates. I just don't get it, but hat's off to them.

for years it was rigged too

I know this makes me basically a monster rooting for the end of the world, but McDonald's hotcakes in a styrofoam package like that trigger such fond memories. I almost never ate at McDonald's, but my grandad liked it, so when he was in town that would be the special breakfast out. The sound of the toxic plastic crinkling under your fork as you saw through the syrup-coated cakes is one of those ineffables that future generations will never understand.

an 80-year-old board game everyone hates

sb

http://i.imgur.com/E2HIWV2.gif

doc: i have the exact same super nostalgia when it comes to McD's breakfast!

was that quantum of solace

apparently golden corral now serves mac and cheese with cheetos on top, as part of their mac and cheese creation station

Like ten years ago I came up with a restaurant concept sort of like that. The place would only have a griddle and a deep fryer and you would be able to order whatever combo of prepared commercial food service things you wanted - like french toast with a bratwurst and two chicken fingers, or waffles and mozzarella sticks, whatever. There would be a line of dispensers of common sauces and condiments - ranch, maple syrup, nacho cheese, marinara, chili, and so on. And at the end would be bins of crushed breakfast cereal, nacho chips, cheetos, pretzels, etc. that you could put on top for texture and flavor. This was going to be selling point and the place would be called Crumblins™. For some reason I thought there should be a neon sign of a skunk holding his nose with animated stink lines as the logo.

sounds like a grocery store

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Two late! Twohey's, home of the stinko burger. (Garlic was the key, and I guess it dates back to when garlic was an unusual spice to be featured in white cuisine.)

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ob8Kba8ipA4/TZLKZpao-FI/AAAAAAAAEdI/zyhI3Qyoaxk/s1600/IMG_9027.JPG

lucid grim vision of humanity's end was actually just graphic rendering of condiment dispensary line

Joygoat, you would make a lot of money selling food to poor people doing that!

I mean, I like comfort food as much as anyone, but Golden Corral is cynical and evil, they aim their advertising at the nutritionally ignorant.

Man, what are you talking about. These people know exactly what they're feeding into their bodies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5CZrRARyu8

Cotton candy isn't that bad for you since there's so little in it.

That's right - go for the chocolate waterfall - cover up those shortcomings. Get some farmy Midwestern people to endorse it. A chocolate waterfall is at least something resembling home-prepared food.

Seriously, I am nutritionally conscious and there was nothing "wholesome" on the entire menu. It is for food-as-drug.

I tried that McDonald's monopoly game once and it brought out the homicidal gambling addict in me. Bought a wrap there last month (not bad, it has actual VEGGIES), saw the game piece and thought, "never again!"

wait so were you buying a dozen filet o fishes a day just for the monopoly pieces or what?

I knew a couple who hit each McDonalds along I-40 in my state, ordering kids meals just to get some obscure BeanieBaby™.

Ty Warner really had em hooked back then