rolling new food laboratory inventions for american chain restaurants thread

http://www.macrumors.com/2014/02/13/taco-bell-mobile-ordering/

Taco Bell told NRN that it expects young Millennials, its primary customer demographic, will embrace the mobile ordering platform. NRN claims that 74 percent of consumers aged 18 to 34 said they would order takeout/delivery on a mobile device, if it were available.

According to Jenkins, Taco Bell's mobile lead, "Mobile is the biggest shift in QSR since the drive thru" and "if you can get 10 million people to download your app, you’re putting a portal to Taco Bell in 10 million pockets."

Harry Potter and the Pocket Portal to Taco Bell

Taco Bell is smart and correct here

The military pizza that lasts for three years

I feel like Subway is adrift

oi my link to that exact story from five days ago is still quite 'fresh'

http://gawker.com/heres-video-of-a-guy-downing-four-chipotle-burritos-in-1526170838

in all the food-industrial-complex innovations showcased in this thread i think we may be overlooking ~the human factor~, what if we could train people in this technique on a massive scale, maybe on a mooc of some sort, think of the efficiencies to be obtained

http://www.burgerbusiness.com/?p=16904

'late-night daypart'

they are even finding new ways to conceive of time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDvEW5ZWgAo

http://i.imgur.com/hu1hW3a.jpg

The colliding sausages in that ad. My good ness

wooow

so many animals. so fantastic.

i think it'd be too difficult to eat. the sausages will roll around. it's not a good situation.

http://i975.photobucket.com/albums/ae232/daggerlee/SH/06609644-AD5F-425A-B01B-5326D44F7133_zps4yqsmxig.jpg

I ordered one

http://i975.photobucket.com/albums/ae232/daggerlee/SH/DCA9F2E2-3799-4643-8B75-518AC8061498_zpsvimkisco.jpg

Nice pretzel bun - definitely a food laboratory trend. I remember fondly the Wendy's pretzel bacon cheeseburger I had a few months ago - the bun was one of the best parts of the burger imo.

http://i975.photobucket.com/albums/ae232/daggerlee/SH/73F2CD03-CB21-4284-82BF-D36111027DF5_zpsuphoof2g.jpg

Here you can see the sausages - a big disappointment compared to the ad

They're literally just breakfast links on two breakfast sausage patties (though they claim to be 'beef'), doused in sweet mustard (sandwich would have been improved by some sharper brassica)

The pretzel bun is also a bit behind the Wendy's iteration - not enough texture

I'd scarf the Chinese New Year ham-on-sausage burger from upthread over this any day

I sort of knew this was a fool's burger when I saw the ad

Just too crazy to be real

Also the Chinese name/tagline is 不素之霸 which roughly translates to "The lord/tyrant of being not-vegetarian"

Candy bowl lady at my job had Cherry M&M's today. They were kinda almost good - like a rough approximation of actual chocolate cherries.

"The lord/tyrant of being not-vegetarian"

excellent dn

I remember fondly the Wendy's pretzel bacon cheeseburger I had a few months ago - the bun was one of the best parts of the burger imo.

back when i briefly drove a cab i took a bouncer, one of the largest men i've ever seen in my life, through the wendy's drive through. he ordered ten of these, along with six large orders of fries, and remarked on their quality.

"Don't worry, five are for breakfast tomorrow." he said, unprompted.

I actually think the real version looks better. It makes more sense now that I know they're breakfast sausages. Would eat.

Amazing story Clay

5 burger to 3 frybox ratio seems out of whack. As a fry man I'd go for a 1 burger to 2 frybox ratio myself

I'd have an infinity ratio when it comes to Wendy's fries.

i kept meaning to start a 77 thread for cab driving stories but i only ended up doing it like september and half of october before i got a better job where the chances of getting stabbed were significantly lower. (it's at a law office so the likelihood is probably not 0% but much closer than driving weirdos around a weird city.)

Wendy's fries are the best fries it's true xp

Dang Clay, would read

"a fool's burger"

this is the best thread

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-taco-bell-breakfast-to-go-national-prepare-for-the-waffle-taco-20140224,0,6163064.story

"Taco Bell's plans are to do breakfast with mostly portable items that its Millennial base can hold in one hand and cellphones in the other."

"'We don't use buns or burgers or circular things at breakfast — that's not who we are."

otm, circular things have no place at breakfast!!

i only acknowledge mcdonald's and carl's jr fast food breakfasts.

i am ok with this taco bell invention in theory. but i'd prefer that they use their lab time to invent new ways of combining ground beef, nacho cheese, and frito-lay products.

otm, circular things have no place at breakfast!!

heathen. my 2 year-old and i have gotten a lot of mileage out of pancakes this winter.

you could tell the statement was super-serious by the second exclamation point

was hoping that the "heathen" part of mine would get the same point across.

in japan those pancakes would be rectangular

otm

otm, circular things have no place at breakfast!!

Yeah, fuck you, doughnuts!

and bagels!

it'd make things a lot easier if places would organize their menus by shape ffs

pizza: squares or triangles?

http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2014/02/24/taco_bell_breakfast_eerie_video.html?wpisrc=hpsponsoredd2

you would think yglesias would be phoning it in now, but no, he is bringing us the scoops

http://i.imgur.com/c6nsBjr.gif

http://i.imgur.com/2iSeg1H.png

that is a fantastic idea

for me to poop out

the lettuce will help you! it's not a sandwich so much as it is a "sandwich system".

Disgusting and I want one anyway.

doesn't all the potato just seep out while you eat??

You're right, they should fry that into a potato pancake first.

hash browns already on mcD's menu no?

Menu value pack includes a stuffed animal and the soothing voice of your late mother.