rolling new food laboratory inventions for american chain restaurants thread

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOOzjDE1Uy8

brb just putting one in my washing machine

If you didn't think poutine was magical enough, #Toronto's Enchanted Poutinerie has got you covered! Looking like a mystical delight, their Unicorn Poutine is made with fresh rainbow Quebec cheese curds & multi-colour gravy -don't mind if we do 🌈🦄
📷 judyyu15/IG pic.twitter.com/NN6l45rZ36

— Canada (@Canada) November 3, 2019

Magical

“don’t mind if we do (give you nightmares for the next 5 years)”

That is the true technicolour yawn.

At least if you eat one of these and then throw up it'll look like you're vomiting a rainbow.

https://uk.toluna.com/dpolls_images/2018/04/12/3e167faf-f0b4-43c0-b2bd-2ceeebb06123_x365.jpg

xp or if the poutine gives you explosive diarrhoea you could briefly pretend to be Nyan Cat.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/11/business/ihop-flipd-fast-casual-breakfast/index.html

pancake bowls

Papa John's now has pizza quesadillas called "Papadias"

in the uk we have this now

https://metro.co.uk/2020/02/04/kfc-pizza-huts-popcorn-chicken-pizza-sale-can-buy-12181565/

gravy base :(

im in yr gravy base killing yr d00ds

kfc gravy is fucking grim, dont know if this is just a uk problem

all italian foods tomato subbed with gravy

gravy lasagna

Spagravy or Gravaghetti

eat fried stale chicken, popped twice weekly
fill your pizzas up with gravy

I've long wanted to make a pizza using chicken gravy. Just obvs not KFC chicken gravy.

KFC gravy in the US used to be good and of its place (like a Kraft slice on a diner burger) and used to hit the spot in sub-zero Minnesota winters.

maybe ppl got confused because Italian Americans anyway call tomato sauce "gravy"

“Fish is meat, too; it’s just ocean meat,” said Deborah von Kutzleben, Arby's vice president of advertising, content and core menu.

Ocean meat, land meat, sky meat... you can find it all at arby's.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2h72aXVP8o

https://www.wyomingbusinessreport.com/industry_news/advertising_and_marketing/it-s-a-new-day-taco-john-s-rolls-out/article_fbc49ae9-e65c-5411-b34c-4aa3908401e6.html

TACO PERFECTO

https://tacojohns.com/menu/taco-perfecto/

it is a TACO but it is LONG and therefore PERFECTO

As if Kuala Lumpur airport wasn't awful enough...

McDonald's at KLIA offers all your favourites such as the Big Mac, Cheeseburgers, chicken burgers, Filet-O-Fish and Quarter Pounders. Travellers who are looking for something different on the menu can opt for the Bubur Ayam McD, a chicken porridge that is only available in Malaysia.

well i gis'ed it and it looks better than i was expecting "chicken porridge" to look

Chicken porridge = congee/juk, surely? Is delish -- creamy rice all gingered up with chicken bits, scallions, etc. The queen of breakfast foods when you're ill and it's cold outside.

Looks like yeah it’s congee which, yes, may be one of earth’s greatest foods.

I want some of that NOW.

https://www.nbcconnecticut.com/entertainment/entertainment-news/dunkins-snackin-bacon-is-here-and-its-exactly-what-you-think-it-is/2230273/
peak bacon

weird moment to launch a shareable food item


https://www.tacobell.com/news/tripelupa-launch

To be fair, last Tuesday was a lifetime ago.

Really disappointed the tripelupa is just a chalupa centipede instead of the Mercedes-Benz configuration I imagined at first

So it doesn’t involve tripe?

only in glasgow

chain restaurant frankenfood monstrosity for the lockdown era, here we go

What is happening? pic.twitter.com/7OP1piPHWm

— Danny Deraney (@DannyDeraney) April 19, 2020

I love the bit where you have the time to caramelize the onions but still want to cook your food in a crisp packet like a prisoner of war

I’d be more interested if the fresh ingredients were a little less basic.

i'd be more interested if i was dying of hunger

OFFTOPIC, BUT RELATED:

Tiktok owns horror now im sorry i dont make the rules pic.twitter.com/nB8ytEtqla

— ✨amanda✨ (@luvu2golka) April 11, 2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3YuolIfsnE&feature=emb_title

not from the food lab but


https://www.foodandwine.com/news/local-restaurant-on-delivery-app-actually-chuck-e-cheese-pasquallys


But the real answer from Chuck himself (so to speak) has more to do with the arcade-themed pizza chain branching out into the new world of delivery apps than any nefarious plot to dupe pure-hearted pizza customers. "CEC Entertainment, Inc. recently launched Pasqually’s Pizza & Wings nationwide. The inspiration was rooted in the desire to create a premium pizza while staying true to the CEC brand," a Chuck E. Cheese spokesperson told Food & Wine via email. "Pasqually’s Pizza & Wings, named after another favorite member of Munch's Make Believe Band, shares kitchen space with the Chuck E. Cheese restaurant, ensuring high-quality, fresh ingredients. Pasqually’s Pizza & Wings’ recipes use fresh, homemade pizza dough, just like Chuck E. Cheese, but it is a different pizza that features a thicker crust and extra sauce, giving consumers a more flavorful, more premium pizza experience. While Pasqually’s Pizza & Wings recipes are currently only available for delivery, select items might be added to the Chuck E. Cheese menu in the future."

and another:

Scott Gladstone, vice president of Applebee's strategy and development, confirmed that Neighborhood Wings is, in fact, another way to be eatin' good in the neighborhood these days.

"At Applebee's restaurants, wings are a top selling menu item," Gladstone told TODAY in an email. "We launched Neighborhood Wings by Applebee's on GrubHub to make it even easier for guests to get their wings fix and to give us the opportunity to test out new items made for wing lovers that aren't on our main menu."


https://www.today.com/food/chuck-e-cheese-applebee-s-are-delivering-food-under-different-t181814

https://tacobellquarterly.org/

https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/video/2020/06/29/what-trending-papa-john-launching-shaq-aroni-pizza/


As a Papa John's board member and franchise owner, Shaquille O'Neal came up with this super sized pizza with extra cheese and 66 slices of pepperoni on it.

https://www.restaurantbusinessonline.com/operations/bankrupt-chuck-e-cheese-beefs-its-pasquallys-pizza-concept

“With the pandemic happening, we took the opportunity to compress the activation of the idea to launch Pasqually’s,” CEC Entertainment CMO Sherri Landry said. “People behave very differently. Third-party delivery sites have become the new Main Street.”

The virtual concept’s menu has been designed to offer more grown-up flavors than the kid-centric Chuck E. Cheese offerings, Landry said.

“Pasqually’s pizza has more sauce. There’s more robust flavor in the bite,” she said. “It has a combination of cheddar and mozzarella cheese to punch up the flavor … It’s a great opportunity to talk to young Gen Z or millennial consumers who understand delivery and deliver them a pizza option from a brand they grew up with, a brand they love.”

if they have any goddamn sense, they will put a big fuckin' Chuck E Cheese cartoon on the box surrounded by supporting characters; that's mostly what people feel nostalgia for.

consumers who understand delivery

and to think all these years they were withholding the robust, grown-up flavours of pizza sauce and cheese.