rolling new food laboratory inventions for american chain restaurants thread

The marketing is puerile but the flavors are conventional; disqualified.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=k5yo5UGsU2Q

it's pretty chaste marketing. but it stil creeps me out!

Couche tard, iirc, is the French version of Mac's, which has an owl mascot :)

wtf trolling w slushys wtf 'here at couche tard it's April Fool's day every day'

extra garlic butter for your pizza

what the hell

do people put butter on pizza

unacceptable

yeah that is gross and I even like pineapple on pizza

about time this devolved into a pizza thread

I mean jfc I'm all for occasional gluttony but do people not realize that adding even more grease to a super-greasy food is diminsihing returns?

Papa John's pizza comes with a little container of garlic butter. I have dipped my pizza in this butter, back when I used to order from Papa John's. u_u

the point is the garlic, butter is simply its vessel

it is also incredibly delicious and the reason i prefer papa johns always

Anyway Steve Martin was making "pizza in a cup" jokes way back in The Jerk, so like way to be late to the game, trolling Canadian convenience whatever.

Garlic is the one true God, and melted better his only prophet.

is garlic butter a condiment to grease up your pizza bones?

by "pizza bones" i mean "crusts"

hah, pizza bone sis a great euphemism for crusts

pizza bone sis was the worst Pearl Jam/Soungarden related band imo

if crusts are "bones" does that make stuffed crust pizza osso buco?

Fraise-ki peut

― Lectures of Pelé (Michael White), Wednesday, June 12, 2013 11:17 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark

c'est impec!

http://www.buzzfeed.com/erinchack/american-fast-food-items-that-arent-about-to-apologize-fo

#20!!

we don't have dunkin donuts here : (

i have had 1, 2, 3 on that list

I've had none of those things. I was in the presence of a Doritos Loco Taco last weekend though. I have also manually out fries on a burger.

its really weird to see these absurd DD menu item rollouts every 3 months, it used to be a regional coffee shop, you could get a muffin maybe or the munchkins (donut holes) and that it, now they're like maniacal food perverts coming up with all sorts of new obscene permutations of breakfast food

the newest market-tested breakfast whatsit is an egg and bacon sandwich on a glazed donut

Idea: The Cronitos Locos Taco -- A taco in a cronut sprinkled with dorito dust.

http://gawker.com/wendys-stops-rogue-restaurant-from-selling-9-patty-t-513257252

wendy's shutting down independent scientific inquiry! can we really make any progress on fundamental issues if food laboratory researchers have to spend all their time securing grants and running studies for their corporate cronut donors?

Idea: The Cronitos Locos Taco -- A taco in a cronut sprinkled with dorito dust.

patent this now imo

The Bakronaut -- a bacon cronut drizzled with sauerkraut and launched into space

http://www.thatsmags.com/beijing/blog/view/15475

its really weird to see these absurd DD menu item rollouts every 3 months, it used to be a regional coffee shop, you could get a muffin maybe or the munchkins (donut holes) and that it, now they're like maniacal food perverts coming up with all sorts of new obscene permutations of breakfast food

― ⚓ (elmo argonaut), Friday, June 14, 2013 10:02 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I was just saying this the other day. STICK TO COFFEE AND DONUTS FFS.

was really into the pancake-sausage-bites while those existed tbh, was sad to see them go

xp the hell with that, feed me more of your sick concoctions, DD!

man i could really go for a concoction right now

i've got a lot of time for these

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ikool_wv0o4/T9kbBVp656I/AAAAAAAAVz4/HlLhwtqEJ_8/s1600/BK_BBQ_Sandwiches.jpg

cue exploding heads of barbecue purists everywhere

followed by exploding hearts of fast food aficionados

idgi is that a pork patty and a porkburger, or is just the memphis one pork

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NO8V72pDw1o

http://www.burgerbusiness.com/

this is my favorite blog

Embarking on what CEO Emil Brolick called a “holistic, highly integrated brand transformation,” Wendy’s has begun a three-year plan intended to extensively remodel its stores, image and menu. This week’s adoption of an updated logoand new packaging and crew uniforms is one element.

The Right Price, Right Size Menu is the primary value product.
Wendy’s released audited results, including a -0.2% decline in same-store sales for Q4 and a 1.6% increase for full-year 2012. The quarter was hurt by the Mozzarella Chicken Supreme LTO in November, which “did not resonate with consumers as strongly as we hoped,” Brolick said. But he said the company is “very pleased” with initial response to the Right Price, Right Size value menu introduced in January. That menu—which freed Wendy’s and its franchisees from the previous 99¢ price point—will be the “dominant focus” of the chain’s value marketing, Brolick said. The new menu provides higher margins.

But Wendy’s won’t shy away from premium-price menu items. It will introduce its latest menu addition in late March, expected to be the Grilled Chicken Flatbread sandwich line it has been testing over the past year. Brolick ducked a question about a Flatbreads introduction during this morning’s earnings call.

Brolick said Wendy’s expects to have “image activated” (i.e. remodeled) 301 domestic restaurants by the end of this year. By the close of 2015, 1,331 of its 6,100 North American stores will have been updated under the three-year plan. This year, the chain expects to close more stores than the company and franchisees will open.

While Burger King manically adds new items by the dozen, McDonald’s and Wendy’s next week will introduce new mid-price chicken sandwiches with little risk because the tortilla and flatbread platforms have been tried and proven successful elsewhere for years.

McDonald’s McWrap is another idea it borrows from its European operations (where beef and shrimp varieties also have been offered), although tortilla-wrapped sandwiches are hardly innovative: Wraps are core items at most QSR and fast-casual sandwich shops. Wendy’s Grilled Chicken Flatbread Sandwiches uses a platform that has been a staple at sandwich-category leader Subway since 2008.

QSR?

quick-service restaurant?

tortilla flatbread platform

sandwich-category leader Subway

god bless you h4a

tortilla flatbread platform

Wendy’s Grilled Chicken Flatbread Sandwiches uses a platform that has been a staple