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This week's 5 head-spinning moments: Whoa & behold

Progress ran into some resistance this week, in part because of robots running amok. But reactions to the industry's harassment scandals showed the clock isn't rolling back.

Goat: The other red meat

Goat’s emergence onto mainstream American menus has slowly increased over the past three years, and availability of the meat has been limited, but that momentum is shifting into high gear.

We can’t blame the heavens for the weirdness in the restaurant industry this week, from a surge in hot dog sales to drive-thrus appearing in fast casual and Jared getting fat.

Suddenly, there's a new restaurant giant on the scene. Here's a peek inside little-known JAB Holding Co.

When the happy talk is all about taxes, you know this was a good spell for restaurants. Also on the plus side: a cover-up for breastaurants, a lovefest for the big burger chains and bitcoins make an inroad.

The Columbus, Ohio-based Rusty Bucket Restaurant and Tavern has 15 locations, but only the Indianapolis store serves up a breaded pork tenderloin sandwich. The reason? Consumer demand for this regional Hoosier specialty could not be ignored.

Mainstream chains are reaching far afield for their latest limited-time offers, from colored sandwiches to cream drinks.

From voice recognition ordering terminals to branded video game characters that will take your order while you play, chains are putting today’s latest tech to use in novel ways.

But the company's Tim Hortons and Popeyes chains both struggled to win over consumers last quarter.

The decline contributed to a 1 percent decline in profit.

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