rolling new food laboratory inventions for american chain restaurants thread

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20190610005219/en/KRISPY-KREME%C2%AE-Opening-Times-Square-Flagship-2020

Krispy Kreme announced today that it will open the first-of-its-kind flagship in Times Square, delighting New Yorkers and tourists alike with the most awesome doughnut experience imaginable. Opening in early 2020, the shop will serve more guests annually than any other Krispy Kreme location in the world.

Within the shop’s 4,500-square-foot retail space, Krispy Kreme will bring its iconic doughnut theater experience to life on the world stage. From the mixing of raw ingredients to the iconic glaze waterfall, Krispy Kreme Times Square Flagship will showcase the end-to-end doughnut making process, creating a wondrously delightful customer experience that is surpassed only by the first bite of Krispy Kreme’s melt-in-your-mouth Original Glazed® Doughnuts just minutes later. And guests can take that first bite while sitting in the world’s largest Krispy Kreme doughnut box with stadium-style seating, offering the perfect view of the doughnut theater across the shop.

"iconic doughnut theater experience"

if the family donut stores from California could expand across the US not a Krispy Kreme would be left standing

Our latest doughnut place is Hurts Doughnut, out of Missouri:

https://i.imgur.com/AFZI9PS.jpg

More stoner "Let's add Froot Loops to Nestle Quik" cuisine. I'm certain they'll be selling Doritos-powdered doughnuts by 2020.

https://i.imgur.com/ZTx41q8.jpg

They've got some good branding though: https://www.wannahurts.com/donuts

xxp are family donut stores in CA somehow different from those elsewhere in the country?

i can't really answer that because all of the other places i've lived have been donut monocultures (Dunkin or Krispy). in California they tend to be run by immigrant families (often Cambodian, there are articles about the phenomenon if you search for Ted Ngoy + donuts) and their menus, while all more or less the same, are generally far more diverse and tasty than corporate places.

Interesting. The prevalence of Cambodian shops may be unique to CA but certainly in the mid-Atlantic and New England there are tons of great small donut shops amid the ubiquitous Dunkin'

xp to the hot-dog crust pizza

https://i.imgur.com/YYLZa.gif

Barbecue beef: New McDonald's burger available in the U.K. draws criticism from some who say it's not a real "Kansas City Stack." https://t.co/WcaYPAFCrR

— AP Central U.S. (@APCentralRegion) June 20, 2019

o no

i am shocked, SHOCKED

Special announcement: I am finger lickin’ thrilled to bring the KFC Cheetos Sandwich to KFC locations nationwide on July 1. pic.twitter.com/ENL0F8aKDC

— KFC (@kfc) June 20, 2019

president xi, please fire at will

dear lord

can I get that with funyuns

Someday. It's also a PepsiCo/Yum! Brands/Frito-Lay brand.

Not chain restaurant oriented, but Laura Shapiro's book Something From The Oven may be interesting to thread-readers - a history of the development and especially the marketing and adoption of postwar frozen/powdered/otherwise "convenience" foods.

RUSSIA’S SEXIEST POKER STAR ELECTROCUTED BY HAIRDRYER (bizarro gazzara) at 10:56 20 Jun 19
president xi, please fire at will

Mmm, soggy Cheetos.

I may never visit a KFC again (here or China), but something like the Dragon Twister (fried chicken strips, cucumbers, scallions, and duck sauce in a pancake/crepe) seems to elevate the central ingredient, whereas adding Cheetos reduces the chicken and even bun to the level of fried extruded corn starch.

just don't eat chinese kfc's egg tarts - digestively murderous and a truly sad imitation of the real thing

"finger lickin' thrilled"

xp Their egg tarts are bad, but it's fascinating how this pastry has somehow gone from Portugal -> Macau -> dimsum -> KFC -> Korean bakeries -> now one of the most ubiquitous foods in China

Not chain restaurant oriented, but Laura Shapiro's book Something From The Oven may be interesting to thread-readers - a history of the development and especially the marketing and adoption of postwar frozen/powdered/otherwise "convenience" foods.

thanks Dr C, will investigate!

it ends up going in some other directions (history of julia child etc.) as it's really a history probing what average american woman were really cooking in the postwar decades, and what it meant to them, etc. i had to skim since i was there for specific reasons but it all looked really interesting!

xpost x'swhatever. I had another french taco last night. It was a special called Sun Cheese or something and had 4 cheeses and I selected a poulet pane and the harissa. The fries didn't bother me so much in this one. My partner got fish and chips. Both amazing. I think it's better than burgers and regular burritos.

sad day my friends

https://www.foodbusinessnews.net/articles/14244-pizza-hut-to-close-hundreds-of-dine-in-locations

As a result, our U.S. store count could drop to as low as 7,000 locations over the next 24 months

What am I going to do if the Pizza Hut in my zip code shuts down? Go to the other Pizza Hut in my zip code?

go to it twice as often!!

https://www.nrn.com/quick-service/taco-bell-eliminating-9-menu-items

As such, that means nine items are coming off the menu permanently including two Doritos Locos Tacos flavors: Cool Ranch and Fiery Doritos, which have been around since 2013. The other items going away include the Double Decker Taco, Beefy Mini Quesadilla, chips & salsa, Chipotle Chicken Loaded Griller, Double Tostada, Power Menu Burrito and the XXL Grilled Stuft Burrito.

damn, press f to pay respects to some real ones

chips & salsa?????

Taco Bell teases me with more premium plant-based options (the Cantina burrito/bowl or its relabeled veggie Power Menu bowl/burrito) and then withdrawing them. I'm not going out of my way for the only remaining option, bean burritos "al fresco", unless forced on a road trip.

For example, the 3 Crunchy Taco Supreme Combo, formerly No. 3 on the menu, is now No. 1.

It's a new era.

Cool Ranch are the only good doritos tacos tho

also good to see the Meximelt is immortal

sad to see the double decker go

it says it’s been around since 2011 but it’s more like 1997. Unless they took it off previously.

what’s next, no more Baja blast?

chips & salsa?????

― j., Thursday, August 29, 2019 5:19 PM bookmarkflaglink

tbh i can't imagine ordering chips and salsa at a taco bell
tbrr i can't imagine ordering at taco bell

i worked at one in high school, the chips (which i'm sure have been gourmet-ified since then) were never EVER ordered as sides, they just got hot in the hot thing, the real purpose of which was to keep chips for use in nachos ready

still, though

I'm not going out of my way for the only remaining option, bean burritos "al fresco", unless forced on a road trip.

― hedonic treadmill class action (Sanpaku), Thursday, August 29, 2019 10:53 PM (four days ago) bookmarkflaglink

They make you eat the non-meat menu items outside!?

behind the dumpster

The best way to eat Taco Bell is on the roof of the car in the parking lot before a show.

al fresco "fresca style": without the cheese and sour cream

this is an article.
https://www.modernretail.co/retailers/how-fast-food-became-the-new-supreme

“People wait, get some joy, get some utility. Then they wait again.”

life innit

She's here and she's beautiful 🍕🧀 🍼 pic.twitter.com/f2yo0gV0It

— Pizza Hut (@pizzahut) September 17, 2019

send pizza hut's ceo to the hague

Just wondering why a cheese stuffed hyperprocessed food would identify as female.