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• Veggie options at quick-service restaurant chains: an update on menu items at popular fast food and quick casual restaurant chains

  - 2008-04-01

  SINCE THE 1980s, THE VEGETARIAN RESOURCE Group periodically asks major fast food and quick-service, casual restaurant chains for the latest information regarding the ingredients in their menu items. We recently contacted established chains as well as some new ones for this article. Several restaurants told us that what patrons...

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• McDonalds, Burger King & Taco Bell are Just Some of the Major Companies Operating in the Fast Food and Quickservice Restaurants Industry.

  - 2007-03-06

  M2 PRESSWIRE-6 March 2007-Research and Markets: McDonalds, Burger King & Taco Bell are Just Some of the Major Companies Operating in the Fast Food and Quickservice Restaurants Industry.C1994-2007 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:06032007 Dublin: Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c51565) has announced the...

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• Taco Bell cuts out trans fats.(BUSINESS)

  - 2006-11-17

  Byline: Gregory Lopes, THE WASHINGTON TIMES Taco Bell yesterday became the latest fast-food restaurant chain to switch to a healthier cooking oil that contains zero grams of trans fat. Kentucky Fried Chicken and Wendy's have already started eliminating trans fats from their...

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• QSR players turn their attention to value menus: chains' challenge: setting low price points without setting off discount war

  - 2005-11-28

  After successfully raising prices over the past two years with premium products like salads and oversized sandwiches, fast feeders are finding that customers still crave the good deals promised by value meals. Such major quick-service chains as McDonald's, Wendy's and Taco Bell have national value menus, which observers say...

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• Sandwich segment lifted by new products, discount truce

  - 2005-06-27

  New products and an ongoing cease-fire in the discount wars helped the highly competitive quick-service sandwich category generate another year of brisk sales. Upscale sandwiches, salads and a wave of new breakfast offerings kept the registers ringing at the nation's largest sandwich brands as new chief executives were installed...

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• Viral web sites

  - 2004-11-01

  Taco Bell's talking Chihuahua ads in the late 1990s created what was then considered "buzz," but the American Kennel Club reported a 72 percent increase in Chihuahua sales. More recently, Burger King experimented with quirky marketing through its highly talked-up web site, www.subservientchicken.com. In a follow-up to promote the Angus...

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• Sandwich titans turn corner with upscale items

  - 2004-06-28

  Traditional fast-food menus look a lot different than they did just one year ago at branches of the sandwich segment's leading chains. Quarter-pound burgers and fries, after serving as the mainstay of the quick-service segment for decades, have taken a backseat to an explosion of new menu items featuring...

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• Troubled outlook: QSR franchisee defaults steady, threatening performance and limiting operator access to capital. (Franchise Management).(quick service restaurant)

  - 2003-05-01

  The high rate of QSR franchisee loan defaults that made headlines last year continues unabated, according to New York-based Fitch Ratings. In its most recent report on franchise lending trends, Fitch Ratings states 219 loans totaling $995 million defaulted in 2002, 105 of them in the...

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• Fast feeders seek swift boost with new products, value

  - 2002-10-07

  Dealt a one-two punch by the weak economy and dismal August sales several fast feeders are unveiling this fall an arsenal of both new and old strategies designed to lure back vanishing customers. Value menus, new products, plans to seek out new concepts and less-expensive building prototypes are just...

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• Alphabetical listing of 2002 c-store survey companies. (A - Y).(Directory)

  - 2002-10-01

  KEY Company Headquarters Convenience-store name 2002 Company-Operated stores States of operation Foodservice brand Abercrombie Oil Co. Inc. Danville,...

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