Lightlife is partnering with Canadian quick-serve restaurant chain Pizza Pizza, adding Lightlife's plant-based chicken items for the first time, including a Lightlife Plant-Based Chick’n Sandwich and Plant-Based Chick’n Bites.
A smoothie consisting of strawberries, apple juice and sherbet was fine ten years ago, but it’s not what most consumers are after today. Now, many people want to put a limit on their sugar intake, and want their smoothie to serve a purpose, like help them meet a personal health goal.
The Very Good Food Company announced a partnership with Copper Branch, the world’s largest 100% plant-based quick service restaurant chain with 40 locations across North America. Starting this summer, Copper Branch will make products from Very Good’s signature plant-based protein brand, The Very Good Butchers, available to customers, initially in branded freezers in select Canada locations.
The study tested the educational properties of glass with EyeSucceed against traditional, video-based training.
October 10, 2019
In a new study published in the Journal of Foodservice Management & Education, wearable technology was found to expedite and positively impact food handler training.
A significant driver of QSR growth was the emergence of the fast-casual restaurant.
November 19, 2018
Changes in the U.S. foodservice industry found the number of QSRs grew even more during the Great Recession, which lasted from December 2007 to June 2009, according to an examination produced by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Economic Research Service (ERS), Washington, D.C.
Checkers operates over 840 locations in 29 states and the District of Columbia.
March 24, 2017
Oak Hill Capital Partners, New York, entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Checkers Drive-In Restaurants, Inc., Tampa, Fla., from Sentinel Capital Partners.
Visits to full-service restaurants, which combined represent 20% of total industry traffic, declined last year.
February 8, 2017
QSRs, which represent 80% of total commercial foodservice visits, realized no traffic growth in 2016 and total foodservice traffic dipped slightly, according to a report published by The NPD Group, Chicago.
All restaurant segments, with the exception of traditional quick-service restaurants (QSRs), are losing visits.
September 20, 2016
Foodservice lunch, which accounts for a third of all foodservice traffic, posted consecutively steeper declines over the past six months, reports The NPD Group.