rolling new food laboratory inventions for american chain restaurants thread

Forget cronuts and negronis. Forget quinoa and kale. Short of putting food into our mouths,
technology is upending the way dining out works. Electronic wizardry once hummed quietly in
the background ... but now we're immersed in "front-facing technology" or "guest-facing
technology": all sorts of devices and programs that interface directly with the consumer. More
restaurant companies experiment with tablets ... letting guests order food and drink from their
tables; play games while they're waiting; then pay with smartphones ... meeting a waiter when
an order is delivered, or when it's time for a refill from the bar, or for upselling desserts.

Forget cronuts and negronis.

lolololol

i'll never get over cronuts and negronis
http://www.impdb.org/images/thumb/6/6a/Airplane!_TedFlashback.png/500px-Airplane!_TedFlashback.png

2014 was the year I started really enjoying negronis only to find out they'd baconed

oh shit seriously

http://www.beautifulbooze.com/2014/06/05/negroni-creamsicle/

gin and dairy, together at last

ah well. on to the bijou i guess *tips straw boater*

negroni and cronuts are funny together because they have the same /ow/ diphthong as bone, groan, moan, joan, stone (and alone, grown, known, cone)
also when you order a negroni you have to say "groany" and that's funny

:D

my negroni has a first name
C-R-O-N-U-T

hahahahahaha

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you are not a funny man, Sufjan Grafton

did I poop in your milkshake one day my accident, mh?

that would explain a lot!

on a food note, I went to a buffet restaurant with coworkers the other day. the labels above some of the dishes had some... errors... although the best thing we saw was the label over the waffle fries:
POTATO NET

BUZZWORDS FOR 2015 at the end of that baum whiteman thing reads like delillo

hah it does; or like radiohead fitter happier

whiteman report is pretty impressive

http://www.burgerbusiness.com/?p=19290

Did Boston Market learn nothing about burgers during the seven years (2000-07) it was owned by McDonald’s?

Burger Business always asks the tough questions

http://www.burgerbusiness.com/wp-content/uploads/Burger-Revolutgion.jpg

INDEPENDENT BURGER RESTAURANT OF THE YEAR
Burger Revolution, Belleville, Ont.
It’s difficult to single out one burger joint, but Burger Revolution’s husband and wife co-owners Jeff and Rayling Camacho do a lot of things right:

For starters, a great logo, and that counts

His hand has turned into a burger that's disgusting

3 handburgers, please

i wud loaf 1 handburger plz comrade

http://www.guysdrinkingbeer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/revbrew.jpg

http://i62.tinypic.com/2qmdh7s.jpg

Goddamn burgertarians

wait what i don't what?

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a289/sidrosteele/hardcorepatriot.jpg

oh no

oh no

Oh gross

schadenfreude explosion

White Castle to offer VEGGIE sliders.

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/dec/31/white-castle-unveils-veggie-burger-option

I can't believe this is real. I won't believe it until I taste one, all greasy and smothered with onion. For vegetarians who love BAD FOOD, this is heaven.

otm, can't wait

Saw that they are Dr. Praegars - good shit

Stoked for the vegness

(My secret confession is that I may like veggie burgers better than most real burgers)

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2015/01/11/fast-food-deals-restaurants-burger-king-chipotle-pizza-hut/21599161/

Burger King on Monday will announce the return of one of its most popular deals from last fall: 10 chicken nuggets for $1.49. That's about half the usual price of $2.99 and it takes a serious jab at a popular McDonald's promotion that comes and goes of 20 Chicken McNuggets for $5.

"When we first offered our guests this value back in October, they went crazy for it," says Eric Hirschhorn, chief marketing officer North America, Burger King. So crazy, in fact, that the promotion had to end early when supplies ran out, he says. But Burger King's bringing back the offer, again, during a post-holiday time when folks are watching their wallets, he says, "and this time we're ready,"

Last go-round, says Hirschhorn, many consumers bought in bulk — even orders of 100 — often tweeting about the hefty purchases "as a badge of honor."

My local McDonald's was offering the 50 piece McNugget

50 pieces of one McNugget??

50 piece mandoline

xp - mine is too - as far as i can tell its target audience is exclusively groups of rowdy high school kids (which i guess makes sense)

50 shades of pink slime

They taste good as long as you get fifty sauces and dump them over the top and also don't look at them or think about how they feel in your mouth

i ate so much fast food until i graduated college/moved to a city and none since and it has deeply soured me on ever eating that shit again

I could probably sit down to a bowl of sawdust and turpentine, but chicken mcnuggets have grossed me out ever since they were added to the menu.

"When we first offered our guests this value back in October, they went crazy for it,"
"When we first offered our guests this value back in October, they went crazy for it,"
"When we first offered our guests this value back in October, they went crazy for it,"
"When we first offered our guests this value back in October, they went crazy for it,"
"When we first offered our guests this value back in October, they went crazy for it,"
"When we first offered our guests this value back in October, they went crazy for it,"
"When we first offered our guests this value back in October, they went crazy for it,"
"When we first offered our guests this value back in October, they went crazy for it,"
"When we first offered our guests this value back in October, they went crazy for it,"
"When we first offered our guests this value back in October, they went crazy for it,"
"When we first offered our guests this value back in October, they went crazy for it,"
"When we first offered our guests this value back in October, they went crazy for it,"
"When we first offered our guests this value back in October, they went crazy for it,"

I had chicken mcnuggets once last year in a moment of weakness and I can't digest that shit anymore

xps Too bad the Burger King nuggets are absolute garbage, especially compared to the McD's ones

t bomb