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Taco Bell to launch loyalty program

A chain with one of the highest visit rates by regular customers looks to add a loyalty function to its app.

Hole-Hearted

The country’s appetite for coffee and donuts is hearty as ever.

A variety of Donald Trump-inspired items have been used to draw customer dollars this election season. 

United States glass manufacturers alone will ship over 2 billion wine bottles this year, according to the Glass Packaging Institute. And that’s nothing; Italy and France each produce about double the amount of wine that American wineries do.

Chiropractors' delights this week included suggestions Chipotle may scrap its burger venture, a backfire for Burger King on a new form of advertising, a rethink of delivery by Taco Bell and a potentially devastating threat to alcohol sales.

Behind the scenes, suppliers scrambled, recipes were tweaked, servers got a crash course on alternative greens.

Tesla is looking to make restaurants a part of its business plan, and that was only one of the revelations from FSTEC's first day.

With health and freshness two of the major forces driving menus today, produce is top on operators’ purchase orders. Indeed, restaurants have been making a big effort to put more fruits and vegetables on the plate. But this effort hit a roadblock with recent E.coli scares and salmonella outbreaks. As a result, food safety has become the priority for suppliers and buyers of fresh produce.

The chain said it was talking about business but may have given the impression it was insensitive to both sides in the controversy.

The U.S. Census Bureau now estimates that Hispanics are 44 million strong, or nearly 15 percent of the U.S. population.

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