rolling new food laboratory inventions for american chain restaurants thread

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

lego buns would do pretty well in america tbh someone get on that

i should mention, because it is the patron saint of this thread, that i had a doritos locos taco for the first time

it wasn't great

brick menu for the interested (disney, lego lawyers not allowed)

I want to eat those

I want to snap 'em together and eat those

LORD BUSINESS

i'd do anything for you

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/06/business/lorenzo-servitje-a-founder-of-the-worlds-biggest-bakery-dies-at-98.html

Mr. Servitje succeeded with a multipronged strategy. He marketed his cellophane-wrapped, mass-produced bread as healthful and dependable, in contrast to the traditional French rolls, or bolillos — common at Mexican breakfasts — that were unavailable intermittently during frequent labor disputes and that sometimes originated in unhygienic bakeries.

In the early 1950s, sales of his white bread still lagged behind those of tortillas and bolillos, so he introduced Mexican consumers to other American-style products, like hot dog and hamburger rolls and doughnuts. (Grupo Bimbo became the country’s sole supplier of buns to McDonald’s.)

And after diversifying into candy and chocolate — controlling the entire process from production to delivery — Grupo Bimbo fended off potential competition by acquiring the Mexican rights to Wonder Bread. The company then broadened its distribution, expanding its market penetration in the United States beyond the South and buying companies abroad.

It became the biggest baking company in the United States in 2009 after acquiring Weston Foods; two years later, it became the world’s biggest after scooping up competitors in Spain, Portugal and Argentina.

So this guy almost singlehandedly turned Mexico into a fatter country than the US. My friend said when he lived there it was almost impossible to find bread that wasn't sugar-saturated white bread.

Also the photo for Mexico from here...

http://gazettereview.com/2016/06/top-10-fattest-countries-in-world/

http://gazettereview.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/mexico-fat-150x150.jpg

Bimbo is also the biggest brand of bread in China, and local alternatives follow its lead. Nasty sweet sickly-smelling stuff, I can't stand it.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/10/sports/hockey/mike-ilitch-dead-detroit-tigers-red-wings.html

pizza pizza

is this Chizza monster a thing in the USA? I've seen ads for it here on tv, and in a bunch of métro stations. It's not so different from a cordon bleu I guess.

had a taco bell quesarito, which i guess is literally an attempt to capitalize on the annoying "secret" chipotle menu item that only the most irritating person alive could possibly order

and it really is trying to be a mini-chipotle burrito what with its being 90% lime rice

i couldn't finish it. i got it with steak, and the steak is REAL REAL bad. and their sour cream is weird and gross.

also got a cheesy crunch gordita WITH A DORITOS SHELL this time, but i chose cool ranch, and it didn't taste any different because those things are slopped in ranch dressing already

anyway 9/10

omg

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/10/business/china-kfc-taco-bell.html

SHANGHAI — Until he was appointed manager of a Taco Bell in China, Will Cao had never seen a taco before. When confronted with its hard, U-shaped shell in Los Angeles last June, he wondered: How do you eat it?

“Everything was spilling all over the place,” said Mr. Cao, a 31-year-old Shanghai resident. “Then I looked at the other customers to learn that, actually, you are supposed to tilt your neck to eat it.”

Mr. Cao’s employer is betting that other Chinese diners will figure it out. Yum China, the company behind KFC there, last month opened the first Taco Bell in China in years, and says it plans to open an unspecified number more. The company is turning to double-layered tacos and overstuffed quesadillas in hopes of regaining ground in a market where its fried chicken has shown the limits of its appeal.

https://www.fastcodesign.com/3068197/mcdonalds-just-innovated-the-hell-out-of-straws

that string of words gives me some serious IA

article is absolutely on point for this thread though

I kind of want to work at fast company. Not because I like business or whatever, but their house style has to be fun to play in

Imagine spending all day working on the dynamics of sucking.

The end of the J would suck in shake, as would two large holes on its tip, allowing you to get the mix you want. But as the shake dipped below the J holes, those openings wouldn’t start sucking in air as a straight straw with holes would. Instead, you could continue sucking because of a vital third hole, on the bottom of the straw. As long as there’s shake coming through the bottom, you close off the pressure system to the tip of the J.

those last two sentences are just a string of amazing phrases/display names.

a tip of the J to you, good sir

that's my next date night sorted

well, instead, you could continue sucking because of a vital third hole

board description imo

http://www.eater.com/2017/2/21/14672830/burger-king-popeyes-merger-tim-hortons