rolling new food laboratory inventions for american chain restaurants thread

sorry thomp... but that's been posted in this thread before

haha they're new here, i didn't think to check. guess it's not the birth of chizza after all huh

kinda weird how the american food lab concepts make this weird circuit of asian nations, one wonders how much it is purely based on local decisions or whether someone in kfc food lab head office is going 'you know what, i hear in the phillipines they like chicken ... and pizza ...'

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/30/us/utah-soda-wars.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

Extra Dirty Second Wife

Alright, now I want to tempt diabetes and try a Dirty Dr. Pepper.

I could have sworn that Mormons were against caffeine, but I guess the church clarified it's just against coffee and tea. An economically prudent piece of religious law, it seems.

throwing more sugar into soda is really something

Are those sodas caffeinated?

Speaking as someone who has to deal with Cokes in the brown cans when I raid a certain relative's fridge, yes, LDS members eschew caffeine in all its evil forms.

I think so? It doesn't have any mention in the article about the weirdness of them serving mostly non-caffeinated stuff, which you would think relevant.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/01/mormon-caffeine-policy-cl_n_1848098.html

these kids and their liberal reading of scripture, I tell ya

not my place to play 'no true scotsman' with mormon doctrine, do whatever you want, fine people of the latter days

Looks like you're right. Lot of Code Red on here: http://www.sodaliciousutah.com/

But they are closed on Sundays.

bless

lol @ one of the popular drinks being called "2nd Wife"

Huh.

Finally, another small correction: Despite what was reported, the Church revelation spelling out health practices (Doctrine and Covenants 89) does not mention the use of caffeine. The Church’s health guidelines prohibit alcoholic drinks, smoking or chewing of tobacco, and “hot drinks” — taught by Church leaders to refer specifically to tea and coffee. *

http://www.mormonnewsroom.org/article/mormonism-news--getting-it-right-august-29

So Sleepy Time Tea is worse than Code Red Maximum Extreme Dew.

prescription non-hot drink sleepytime pills are ok, iirc

Wonder if caffeine pills would be OK.

I think I just coined the term "veblen foods" in a conversation with a friend

going to start a truck that sells $8 tacos

smoking or chewing of tobacco

snuff is okay then?

http://i.imgur.com/mGnM2Wm.jpg

What the hell?

snafu at the food lab

Did Jack escape the box? Holy shit

Looks like ur car got

JACKED

http://laughingsquid.com/vinnies-pizzeria-in-brooklyn-is-now-offering-a-pizza-slice-topped-with-tiny-pizza-slices/

jackin' the box

Communist themed hot pot

http://achewood.com/index.php?date=10232003

http://burgerbusiness.com/whats-testing-at-mcdonalds-the-corner/

...if it doesn’t serve as a pipeline of new menu ideas, it’s difficult to see why McDonald’s would operate this concept. But there are plenty of non-traditional items on The Corner’s extensive new menu that would make distinctive McCafé additions.

Beverages include not only coffee (hot and iced), tea, hot chocolate, chai and tea (hot and iced) but also craft sodas ($5) [Note: all prices quoted here are in Australian dollars; currently 1 AUD = .71 USD] in flavors such as Lemon, Lime & Bitters and Cucumber & Mint. McCafé standards—milkshakes and smoothies—round out the beverages.

New savory breakfast foods on the menu include Cheesy Scrambled Eggs & Crispy Bacon Roll ($8) and those same Cheesy Scrambled Eggs on Toast with Bacon, Spinach & Tomato ($10). A new addition to the sweet breakfast options is Brioche Cinnamon Toast ($5). Open Toasts—open-faced sandwiches—are offered for both breakfast and lunch. Among the morning versions is Avocado, Tomato & Ricotta ($8). A new lunch option is the Basil Chicken with Bruschetta Tomato & Parmesan ($8).

kinda disappointed by this article's uncharacteristic lack of poetry, like a bad issue of harper's on autopilot, all democratic critique & effete dulled-by-failing-memory bildungsroman - also hey it is not topical ???, this all occurring in quarters long since concluded, do you have a specific interest in the mccafe heyday or are you just enjoying the archives (i love this, it feels genuinely like a hysterical take on the present, /recent past, like those awful globalization-panorama movies, babel, china, 'uncle sam's', 5th avenue, if not 'like don delillo' then at least 'like a richer & more stimulating bret easton ellis', i feel there are also fast food brand analogies we could make here) - but i'm consoled by the casual dispatch from barry klein in the comments, training a wry eye on the developments, reluctant to get too excited as a guy who's been burned before, encyclopaedic knowledge of failed pilot projects accumulated not only through company reports and the presentation materials that make it out of the lab but over short weekend-day day-trips with early starts, making the long drive to indiana count by being sure to make it there for the 6am breakfast, playing it safe & ordering traditionally but also comprehensively before catching up on sleep in the lot for four, five hours through until noon & then driving over to a second location right at the saturday lunch-rush peak to feel the heat of the operational complications, get a sense of table service via phone first hand, this man out of place able to feel the staff's whelm & so, calculating gains & losses on the fly - deinstalling the booth phones, laying off a greeter, saving some time forgoing wraps - also able to fully inhabit & be present inside a doomed & so temporary exercise, all food ephemeral but not at this level, not under these arches, almost tingling spooning the last of a commercially moribund branded red pepper omelette from his plate, knowing all this was going, the year 2000 this feeling something like a new phase, a younger man's game in retrospect, even this food service dawn from his chair now feeling so much like a dusk, like a close, the early twilight hours of the long night of the mccafé, all-day breakfast in this place just another reminder of shorter, sharper, younger days

post of the week, thank you

I just introduced Ian Bogost to ßurgerßusiness on Twitter

http://i.imgur.com/4wtRl5U.jpg

http://lovelace-media.imgix.net/uploads/491/68274740-a109-0133-6b56-0ec5ba6aa2f5.jpg

http://www.adweek.com/news/advertising-branding/how-arby-s-turned-its-brand-around-after-years-identity-crisis-169009

this is the second puff piece on arby's i have seen today

now i need arby's

Raspberry flavored hamburger buns.

http://laist.com/2016/02/06/gd_bro_burger_bringing_raspberry_bu.php#photo-1

D:

http://www.kentucky.com/news/business/article78164582.html

Taco Bell going upscale with open kitchen

New designs feature open kitchens, communal tables and in some cases alcohol

Plans include opening 2,000 more restaurants by 2022

Elements include reclaimed wood, beachy note

Things I don't want to see more of inside a Taco Bell:

• The kitchen.

what alcohol pairs best with taco bell? fortified wine? smirnoff ice?

PGA & Kool-Aid

bud lime-a-rita for sure

haven't tried spiking the mountain dew varieties exclusive to TB but I bet there's something that'd work

New designs feature open kitchens, communal tables

And I'm out. Don't even want to do that shit at good restaurants.

Why does anyone do those communal tables? The number of people who like them must be really small and quiet because I only ever hear people say they hate them. At best, some people... don't care? (myself included)

Who is the person who is like SICK, COMMUNAL TABLE *high-fives stranger*

I would mind them if it was like eating a meal at the bar. You know, where people idle and make chit-chat but you've got not obligation to respond. No one's facing you at the bar other than the staff, though.

I have never had a stranger attempt to chit chat me while eating at a communal table at any kind of restaurant, they're like non-communal tables but with the vague risk of bumping someone's elbows. Maybe in the south or something it's different

the Quesarito, inspired by the culinary roots of Mexican-inspired food

XD