Burger King

Food

Filling the snack gap

Snacking is on the rise, with 51 percent of consumers saying they snack at least twice a day, according to Technomic’s Snacking Occasion Consumer Trend Report. That’s up from 48 percent in 2012. Yet restaurants are not taking full advantage of this trend. Technomic reports that 80 percent of snacks are sourced from retail stores, while only 20 percent are purchased from restaurants.

Marketing

April Fools’ Day promos out of left field

Hooters buys a private island, a QSR gets into drone delivery and more.

Two burger giants recently battled it out with an atypical weapon: cheesy sides.

In this environment, anything is possible, but such a deal seems unlikely, says RB's The Bottom Line.

While grappling with the sales free fall in China, the burger giant saw fundamental problems worsen on the domestic front.

Will these unconventional items bring a sales boost to Burger King, Dunkin’ Donuts and Olive Garden?

The top three burger chains, all QSRs, own two-thirds of the category's sales.

Both brands have the service in “hundreds” of restaurants and plan to expand it quickly.

Comp sales for stores in the United States and Canada rose 3.6 percent, with only three significant menu changes.

More than half of the restaurant industry’s $491 billion in sales come from the Top 500 chains. And these giants grew at a modestly stronger rate, both in terms of sales and store counts, than the industry overall. Restaurant Business focused on the leading 250 performers to identify trends for our first-ever special report delivering lessons from Technomic’s annual Top 500 Chain Restaurant Report. This special package includes lessons for all operators from the largest chains by segment, menu category and more.

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