Borders Might Become Home to a National Chain Restaurant
The listing agent for the property wants to bring in a large national restaurant.
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A New Ruling on Wine Sales in NJ Could Crush Local Wineries; Martha Stewart Gets Back to Basics With a New Show
Plus: With new dietary guidelines, the USDA warns against calories, soda and salt; and Chili's tests new barbecue menu items, all in our morning news roundup.
Le Pain Quotidien Is Now Open
The bakery and cafe might have given away the house the other day, but today it's open for regular business.
Inclement Weather Pushes Back Freshii’s Grand Opening
Even though it opened last week, Freshii was supposed to kickoff its grand opening festivities today.
Le Pain Quotidien Soft-Launched This Morning
The new bakery and cafe was slated for an opening this Wednesday, but soft-launched this morning.
French Fries Provoke Shooting in Old City; Breakfast Pizza: It’s Not Just For Hangovers Anymore
Plus flooding in Sri Lanka decimates food crops and drives up costs, and any legislation to sell off PA's liquor stores will likely review all issues related to alcohol sales in the state, all in our morning news roundup.
Krispy Kreme Returns to Philly Tomorrow
After nearly five years, the doughnut maker returns to the Philly area.
South Jersey Food Bank Comes Up Short on Turkeys; Paula Deen Tapped to Be Grand Marshal of Next Year's Rose Bowl Parade
Plus New York Times says candy gets a bad rap, and chain restaurant stock prices rise, all in our morning news roundup.
PA Liquor-Control-Enforcement Officer Gets Three Years in Federal Prison; IHOP Sues International House of Prayer
Plus Boulder is the foodiest town, and it's mooncakes season in Asia, all in our morning news roundup.
Philadelphia Officials Confiscate Cupcake Trucks; Try Fried Salad at the Texas State Fair
The city is confiscating cupcake trucks; are the disobedient cupcake entrepreneurs to blame?
Burger King Cooks up a Pizza-Flavored Hamburger; Springfield, Utah Bans Chain Restaurants
Burger King's Whopper Bar will soon introduce a giant hamburger shaped and flavored like a pizza, which will serve six.
Rita's Ice Wants To Hit 600 Stores
It turns out that Rita's Ice is a big Philly export: the chain has spread as far as Texas (where they just opened store no. 556) and wants to open no. 600 by the end of the year. Since...
Starbucks Launches Value Meals
Starbucks has unveiled the "value meal" that we wrote about last week, and it's a combo promotion. The Wall Street Journal reports that Under Starbucks's new $3.95 promotion, customers can get a 12 oz. latte with oatmeal or coffee cake...
Starbucks To Close Delaware Valley Locations?
Starbucks announced late Tuesday afternoon that they are closing 600 of their stores in the United States, as previously mentioned in our newsbrief. All stores closed will be from the company-operated market (meaning that privately operated locations such as those...
Burger King Is Not Just Stingy -- Paranoid Too!
The hole that Burger King was in after the failure to agree to a penny-per-pound increase for tomato workers has just been getting deeper and deeper. Last week, we learned that a vice president in the company wrote some...
Burger King's $167 Hamburger
Look out Daniel Boulud — a $167 hamburger (GBP85) has debuted at selected Burger Kings in London. Burger King's new Kobe beef burger will be topped with blue cheese and will be sold at the chain's Kensington and Chelsea, London...
Misplaced Restaurant Rage
After reading yesterday's item in trade mag Restaurants and Institutions about a drive-through dispute that resulted in a double stabbing in Texas (!?), we got just curious enough to Google the term "fast-food rage" (but without the quotes). Turns out...
The Appeal Of Chipotle
What is it about formerly McDonald's-owned Mexican chain Chipotle that gives it such a ferocious cult following? Fast Company tried to find out. Apart from commiting the sin of calling Chipotle "the Bono of the fast-food business" (!), they...
Burger King Unveils Hamburger-Flavored Potato Snacks
Burger King has just licensed out their name for a series of, err, "potato snacks." Not potato chips. Potato snacks. We just got word from snack makers Intensely Different that they have officially unveiled a line of Burger King potato...
Chipotle Gets Local
We generally try to avoid large chains. Very broadly speaking, the food isn't usually that awesome and the experience results in us giving our money to some sort of mega-corporation that has a ton of policies we find objectionable....
