Wheying the options
Dairy prices seem to be going up faster than cream rises to the top of a vat of milk. While relative bargains were available when cheese prices crashed in January 2009, there's been a surge upward since then. To ease the pain, some operators can cut down on the number of cheesy appetizers and entrees they serve, but concepts that focus on pizza, cheeseburgers, enchiladas and quesadillas simply can't do without it.
Olive Garden finds another use for breadsticks: pizza
The new pepperoni-topped appetizer is part of promotion tied to a Fox cooking program.
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