Chicken Palooza to run July 2- Aug. 31 and include a free chicken sweepstakes, charitable donations and gear for purchase. Royal Farms is launching its first annual Chicken Palooza event. During the event, four lucky entrants will win free chicken for a year. Chicken Palooza takes place July 2 through Aug. 31, 2018. There is…
Love’s Travel Stops Rolls Out Breakfast and Lunch
Love’s introduces sandwiches and wraps baked daily in select stores for breakfast and lunch. Love’s Travel Stops locations across the country are offering additional options for fast, convenient and great-tasting breakfast and lunch items. The nation’s industry-leading travel stop network recently debuted its own line of sandwiches and wraps baked daily in-store. Customers can choose…
NPD Examines Whole Foods’ First Year with Amazon
Online delivery charges full speed ahead as retailers fight to keep up in the age of disruption. It has been a year since Amazon announced it was buying Whole Foods, an announcement that initially sent shockwaves through the food and grocery retail industry and eventually hastened other national grocery chains’ plans for online delivery and…
All Day Breakfast Spurs Food Trends
Breakfast food is big business and continues to evolve and expand across mealtimes. Customers want breakfast all day, and businesses are responding. From the popularity of McDonald’s all-day breakfast menu to the rise of hipster-baiting cereal cafés, restaurants nationwide are catering to consumers’ free-form dining habits with menus adaptable across mealtimes, according to market research…
Hunt Brothers’ Chicken Bacon Ranch Pizza Returns
Chicken Bacon Ranch Pizza expected to bring increased foot traffic to c-stores during the summer months. A popular LTO, Hunt Brothers’ Chicken Bacon Ranch Pizza, with cool ranch flavor, arrives just in time for summer. Hunt Brothers Pizza, is bringing back a fan-favorite, Chicken Bacon Ranch Pizza, as a Limited Time Offer (LTO). Beginning today…
Plant-Based Proteins’ Foodservice Appeal
Food operators are responding to demand for plant-based proteins as customers look to eat healthy. Plant-based proteins aren’t just for vegans and vegetarians anymore as U.S. consumers seek more protein in their diets and plant-based foods become more available and tastier. Higher demand for plant-based proteins is evidenced by the 19% growth in cases shipped…
Olé Mexican Foods Owners Inducted into TIA Hall of Fame
The Tortilla Industry Association (TIA) honors Veronica and Eduardo Moreno. Olé Mexican Foods owners, Veronica and Eduardo Moreno, were recently inducted into the Tortilla Industry Association’s (TIA) Hall of Fame. The presentation was made during the 2018 TIA Annual Convention & Trade Expo, held June 1-2 at JW Marriott in Desert Springs, Calif. Members of…
Rutter’s to Switch to Cage-Free Eggs
By the end of June, the Pennsylvania retailer will be cooking with eggs considered more socially acceptable. Throughout the month of June, Rutter’s is switching to cage-free eggs for all foodservice offerings in all stores, which will make Rutter’s the largest, publicly-announced, US convenience store chain to make the change to cage-free eggs this year.…
KFC Developing Vegetarian Chicken
The chain is said to be perfecting the recipe and aims to test it with customers, launching a new vegetarian option in 2019. Can you enjoy chicken without the chicken? That’s like having your meatloaf minus the meat. Seemingly doing more with less, the chicken giant KFC is reportedly developing a vegetarian chicken substitute to…
Quick Foods Magnify C-Store Menus
Retailers find that supple chicken and roller grill programs can beef up foodservice offerings. Americans’ love affair with chicken shows no signs of slowing down. Always a versatile ingredient, it appeals to a wide range of customers and is perceived as healthier than other proteins. Throw in the fact that roller grill offerings have become…