Here are some recent shots from a trip to Geneva this past February. These are grabs from the kiosk menu and you can see that there’s some sort of rivalry between the McRaclette Bear and the Rene McChutney Cheese Schudel, two colorful fast food sandwiches from a country unafraid to slap anything between two buns. Enjoy.
OK, the picture above is a bit misleading. That’s not a mini-McDonald’s so much as a McCafe kiosk. This particular stand sits on Orchard Road in the ritzy shopping district of Singapore, although the actual location of this kiosk was in front of the not-so-posh Lucky Plaza (with cell phone shops and other flea market type stalls.) Inside Lucky Plaza, however, was a flull blown McDonald’s and I spent a couple meals there so that I could sample some unique items. But first, let’s take a quick look at some menu snaps.
Del Taco is introducing a series of fast food dinner plates. dubbed “Platos,” that include an entree, rice and beans, and chips & salsa. A soft drink can be added for $1 over the $6.49 – $7.49 plate price. Two new wet burritos are also introduced to the Mexican food line-up. Here are the plates:
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New updated menu for Cosi is available. The lady at the restaurant was nice enough to let me take pics of the menus.
Del Taco is adding two new fast food chicken offerings to their popular Buck & Under menu. The Salsa Fresca Chicken Taco contains grilled chicken and “handmade” pico de gallo inside two corn tortillas. The Chicken Roller is grilled chicken, pepper jack cheese, and green sauce in a flour tortilla.
You can try a Salsa Fresca Chicken Taco for free with any purchase by using the coupon on Del Taco’s Facebook page or by playing their Memory-like matching game and signing up for their e-club. Pricing was not included in the press release, but Buck & Under pricing is divided into 59 cent, 79 cent, and $1 items.
Someburros, a small Mexican fast food restaurant chain in Arizona, has revamped its look. Same menu, just a refreshed logo and branding. I noticed their restaurants are doing some small stuff as well, such as swapping out mult-colored string lights for plain white on the patios. Happy to see the investment and also happy that I can still order my “chicken burro, enchilada style, red.”
We’ve updated the Someburros menu, and here’s a little video from the chain.
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Muy bueno Someburros!
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We’ve updated fast food restaurant menus for ten fast food chains:
Arby’s, Burger King, Chick-fil-a, Filibertos, McDonald’s, Popeye’s, Schlotzsky’s, Taco Bell, Wendy’s, and Zaxby’s.
Today, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published a long-awaited final ruling requiring calorie information on “menu boards in chain restaurants, similar retail food establishments and vending machines with 20 or more locations… The rules are required by the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.”
The ruling is meant to standardize information for brand-name food items, covering as many Americans as possible. The FDA acknowledged that several states have been preemptive in enacting their own rules. The new FDA standard will ensure some degree of consistency across state lines.
“The menu labeling final rule applies to restaurants and similar retail food establishments if they are part of a chain of 20 or more locations, doing business under the same name and offering for sale substantially the same menu items. Covered food establishments will be required to clearly and conspicuously display calorie information for standard items on menus and menu boards, next to the name or price of the item. Seasonal menu items offered for sale as temporary menu items, daily specials and condiments for general use typically available on a counter or table are exempt from the labeling requirements.”
We here at Fast Food Source do not object to this type of labeling. In fact, one of the key features of fastfoodsource.com since our launch in 2000 has been links to nutrition information. In fact, when we first launched this website, we researched and typed calorie, fat, and sodium content for chains where it was not easily found online. Providing this information at point-of-purchase only makes sense.
It will be interesting to see whether this rule has any effect on how chains market their products or what products they decide to advertise. For instance, will we see a surge in health-conscious fare like salads and other “lite” offerings as chains try to de-emphasize their more heavily weighted caloric offerings? Time will tell.
> Read more on the FDA’s website
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