rolling new food laboratory inventions for american chain restaurants thread

ok that is nuts because this also just happened: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/30/business/michael-james-delligatti-creator-of-the-big-mac-dies-at-98.html?_r=0

who will be next? ugh, i mean wtf 2016!

http://www.theonion.com/graphic/pizza-hut-unveils-new-cheese-stuffed-delivery-boy-34863

https://i.imgur.com/lKb1t78.png

http://cookcountyrecord.com/stories/511059052-class-action-des-plaines-mcdonald-s-franchisee-charges-41-cents-too-much-for-cheeseburger-meals

A Des Plaines man has brought a consumer fraud class action against a suburban Chicago McDonald’s franchisee, alleging the restaurant group should be made to pay for allegedly false advertising on its menu, as the group’s pricing of its two cheeseburger “Extra Value Meal” causes customers to pay 41 cents more than they would if they just ordered their two burgers, fries and drink separately.

oh man, that was the big secret on Whopper Wednesday. I always panicked when a customer figured that out b/c voiding everything out and re-ringing it up was NOT easy.

Not America, but in the spirit of the thread... 'smart' KFC with facial recognition ordering system:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jan/11/china-beijing-first-smart-restaurant-kfc-facial-recognition

http://burgerbusiness.com/burgerbusiness-is-closed-thanks-for-coming/#comments

fuck, rip burgerbusiness dot com - upon whom will i rely now to soothsay that the coming year is gonna be the "year of the bun"

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

DDDD:

RIP mourn you from daypart to deathpart

http://i64.tinypic.com/2ezmiyq.jpg

http://boston.cbslocal.com/2017/01/11/taco-bell-fried-chicken-shell-naked-chicken-chalupa/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

nationwide in 15 days!

Bakersfield, California, and Kansas City, Missouri

I wonder how they arrived on this particular combination of test markets?

Well, Bakersfield is oilfields and meth labs

i'm fuckin bummed about burger business

https://www.qsrmagazine.com/consumer-trends/12-fast-food-trends-2017

Bowled over by bowls. To call 2017 the year of the bowl would not necessarily be an overstatement, says Melissa Abbott, vice president of culinary insights at The Hartman Group. Some bowls will be loaded with salad. Others will be filled with grains and veggies. And some will be protein-infused. Chains like Sweetgreen and Cava Grill are already bowl havens. “Bowls are all about seeing things made right in front of you,” Abbott says.

qsr magazine is here once again with their annual forecast though

2017: YEAR OF THE BOWL

Want kombucha with that? Most Americans have probably never heard of kombucha, the fermented tea that’s made by adding a culture of bacteria and yeast to a solution of tea and sugar. But they will in 2017, Abbott says. “This is a fun, magical, low-cal drink that has lots of beneficial properties,” she says. Such familiar names as Safeway and Celestial Seasonings already have dabbled in it. It won’t be long until familiar fast-food and fast-casual chains sell it, too.

oh good

we now have a "jersey mike's subs" closer to work

I am unsure what to think so far

https://www.technomic.com/Pressroom/Releases/dynRelease_Detail.php?rUID=445

As we look beyond flavor, we now wonder which ingredients are emerging on the innovation scale? Chicken and bacon are, by far, the most popular proteins on sandwiches, but what’s next?

“The Technomic Lifecycle is pushing the envelope by showing us real-time ingredient innovation,” says Bernadette Noone, vice president at Technomic. We've noticed with the growth of consumers' desires to remain healthy, that tofu is the leading cutting-edge protein used in sandwiches. Other ingredients like Muenster cheese, truffle aioli and English muffins were also identified as innovators in the sandwich category.

On the other hand, Technomic often finds that ingredients can be mainstream in some meal categories, while being unique and competitive in others. A perfect example would be “chipotle mayo”. When paired with chicken sandwiches, it is often found in the mainstream part of the lifecycle, while adding it to steak sandwiches places it on the introductory and growth scale.

technomic rules

i, too, often find myself "looking beyond flavor" when eating fast food

bernadette noone

After the giant returns in the evening and eats two more of the men, Odysseus offers Polyphemus some strong and undiluted wine given to him earlier on his journey. Drunk and unwary, the giant asks Odysseus his name, promising him a guest-gift if he answers. Odysseus tells him "Οὖτις", which means "nobody"[ 2 ] and Polyphemus promises to eat this "Nobody" last of all. With that, he falls into a drunken sleep. Odysseus had meanwhile hardened a wooden stake in the fire and now drives it into Polyphemus' eye. When Polyphemus shouts for help from his fellow giants, saying that "Nobody" has hurt him, they think Polyphemus is being afflicted by divine power and recommend prayer as the answer.

In the morning, the blind Cyclops lets the sheep out to graze, feeling their backs to ensure that the men are not escaping. However, Odysseus and his men have tied themselves to the undersides of the animals and so get away. As he sails off with his men, Odysseus boastfully reveals his real name, an act of hubris that was to cause problems for him later. Polyphemus prays to his father, Poseidon, for revenge and casts huge rocks towards the ship, which Odysseus barely escapes.

So is the Year of the Bun or the Year of the Bowl?

I'm starving over here until I hear an answer. Don't make me ask Al Stewart.

Going from the basic blahness of everything I've tried from SweetGreen, here's hoping for 'bun.'

what's the appeal of jersey mike's? does anything actually separate it from blimpies or quiznos?

also when i saw that taco bell thing i assumed it was fried chicken skin, which is tbh a great and respectable idea, not literally fried white chicken meat molded into a taco shell shape

Fried chicken skin is a new idea and new ideas are terrifying to the American consumer. Or so the chains think.

And Jersey Mike's has more of an old school sub shop feel, if that makes sense. I don't remember Blimpies but it's definitely more of a pre-Subway taste from what I've had. Which is not much. They do cheesesteaks, which is ultra-rare in this part of SoCal.

Blimpie died hard in a lot of areas after some initial success in years after Subway became ubiquitous -- I don't think they differentiated themselves well and actually changed to become more like Subway for a while.

Jimmy John's stuck to bare essentials and offered delivery and seems to be strong here after starting with college areas and then branching out. Subway's main appeal now seems to be ubiquity + "healthy" options + deals. Jersey Mike's and a handful of others (Firehouse Subs, some cheesesteak place) are playing the "it's a bigass tasty sandwich" game without pretending to be healthy or cheap.

I hate Quizno's, something about the way they have menu items carefully engineered to sound like they're actually going to taste good and then blergggggh

lol yeah, quizno's was pretty big around here and then hit the wall a few years back after they reduced their menu to serving variations of the same three sandwiches and the quality dropped

rip pepper bar

does jimmy johns still include condoms with its orders?

need more info to complete this query

http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/McDonalds-Rolls-Out-2-New-Big-Mac-Sizes-Nationwide-This-Week-411252195.html

we used to make things in this country

make america salivate again

http://i.imgur.com/EdVd9ew.png

congratulations on your impending lawsuits frito lay

seems fine

It took me a while to see anything other than panties in the circle on the left.

Maybe I'm drunk?

'target acquired'

'Lock in for a Frito lay'

Frito breath detected! Abort!

http://www.avclub.com/article/kfcs-unholy-fried-chicken-pizza-hybrid-chizza-spre-249916

not gonna lie, the thought of this with, like, a popeye's batter sounds fucking awesome (it also sounds like a parmo, which i'm amazed no fried chicken chain has yet ripped off wholesale)

In my decade in China I tried many of the bizarre creations McDonald's and KFC came up with for the local market, but these ones released for the 2012 Olympics were particularly memorable, as they were meant to represent British food somehow.

http://i.imgur.com/iZGXlPw.png

The one on the left is lettuce with thousand island dressing, bacon, two beef patties, potato salad. It was actually not that bad.
The thing in the middle is a wrap with soybeans. The meat inside had a weird spongy consistency, tried it once and didn't finish it.
The one on the right is mushrooms with swiss cheese on top of two beef patties. The mushrooms were of the tinned variety. It wasn't good.

Actually these aren't that odd, but took me half an hour to find so might as well post now.

they sound alright!
am jonesing for a windows7 burger now tho

The mushrooms were of the tinned variety

this is the only authentically british part of any of that

Meanwhile, in the Philippines...

https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/16507961_570044773193210_4105434898609702_n.jpg?oh=8bc49ca5ff413599b3627ec710265f2b&oe=590D9D5E

http://laughingsquid.com/philippines-restaurant-serves-burgers-with-colorful-lego-brick-shaped-buns/

no chance they're getting away with "Darth Burger"

I believe he was the hero of Lucas's rejected sequel trilogy, actually

the only new thing that was going to help enforce US-style copyright elsewhere was the trans-pacific partnership and that ship has apparently sunk

hail the darthburger

Darth Burger clearly the most appealing of those also.

where are the other 6 jaw-dropping variants