Top Health & Wellness News

Caribou Commits to Cleaner Ingredients

Things just got a little more real at Caribou Coffee. The premium coffeehouse is strengthening their commitment to superior taste and quality ingredients by using less artificial flavorings in existing and new menu items throughout the year. Real vanilla syrup will kick off Caribou's clean label beverage platform with plans to convert all syrups to […]

Freebirds Keeps Calories Low with Six New Menu Items

Freebirds World Burrito aims to make healthy eating easy in 2016 with the launch of its new Six Under 600 Calories menu. Continuing in its commitment to freshness, Freebirds has crafted a selection of scratch-made, meal options that do not settle on quality or flavor. Available at locations nationwide, the menu features a variety of […]

McAlister’s Brings Back Lite Choose Two

McAlister's Deli, a leading fast casual chain, is highlighting its "Lite Choose Two" menu offering again with a wide variety of options all under 600 calories to help stay on track in the New Year. Guests can choose from more than 250 pairings of two portion entrées such as a half sandwich, salad, spud, and […]

Emerging Concept Nanoosh Opens in Rockefeller

New York residents and tourists alike have a new and delightful Mediterranean meal option in the Rockefeller Center Concourse with the grand opening of Nanoosh. This fast-casual dining spot offers Mediterranean classic recipes made with fresh, organic, and all-natural ingredients prepared from scratch each day and served in a contemporary welcoming ambiance. "Nanoosh is proud […]

Muscle Maker Grill to Expand in California

Muscle Maker Grill, the rapidly expanding fast-casual restaurant brand promoting a healthy lifestyle by offering nutritious alternatives to traditional dishes, announced it is expanding its presence in California with two new locations scheduled to open in 2016. The expansion includes the opening of its first West Coast corporately owned stores located at Jamboree Promenade Shopping Center […]

Foodservice Tea Market Expected to Skyrocket

American restaurants have built an empire on the strength of consumer demand for coffee. And while coffee will continue to boost industry sales, it’s the $20 billion foodservice tea market that likely will have the edge in future growth momentum as sales are expected to increase through 2018 and beyond. The forecast was predicted by […]

Rita’s Italian Ice Debuts Four All-Natural Italian Ices

Rita's Italian Ice, the world's largest Italian Ice concept with more than 600 stores across the country, officially announced the debut of a new product, All-Natural Italian Ice. The new Italian Ice line extension is made with simple, natural ingredients and comes in four delicious flavors: Pineapple and Strawberry, which are available immediately in all […]

Teavana Unveils Seven New Wellness Teas

Americans consumed more than 80 billion servings of tea in 2014 and their interest in the health benefits of tea continues to grow, according to the Tea Council of the USA, which recently named January 12 National Hot Tea Day. Today, Teavana is introducing seven new loose-leaf wellness teas that are an easy and delicious […]

PizzaRev Introduces Light Pesto Primavera Pizza

PizzaRev, a fast-casual pizza concept backed by Buffalo Wild Wings, has kicked off 2016 with the new Pesto Primavera pizza—a farm-fresh personal pizza that is entirely under 600 calories. The new crafterpiece is available now through March 31 at PizzaRev’s 29 open locations across California, Colorado, Texas, Utah, South Dakota, and Minnesota. The Pesto Primavera […]

Noodles & Co. Encourages a ‘Fresh Start’ to 2016

Noodles & Company, serving classic noodle and pasta dishes from its globally inspired World Kitchen, invites guests to raise their bowls to health and wellbeing in the New Year. Dedicated to providing guests an easy way to eat well, the company is kicking off 2016 with several initiatives including the launch of a new guest-interactive […]

Captain D’s Brings Back D-Lites Items Under 500 Calories

Captain D’s LLC, the leading fast-casual seafood restaurant known for serving freshly prepared seafood for more than four decades, is helping consumers stick to their healthy New Year’s resolutions by reintroducing its Captain’s D-Lites menu featuring entrées under 500 calories. Available now through January 24, Captain D’s is making it easy for customers to maintain […]

Chick-fil-A Rings in New Year with ‘Superfood’ Side

In an industry dominated by french fries as side items, Chick-fil-A will soon be one of the first fast-food restaurants in the industry to add “superfoods” like kale and Broccolini, to its menu. Just in time to keep New Year’s resolutions, customers nationwide can order the low-calorie Superfood Side starting on January 18. The gourmet […]

Larkburger Serves Sustainably Sourced Tuna Burger

It may be known best for its classic beef burgers, but Colorado fast-casual concept Larkburger is introducing a fresh take on a different menu item this week: the tuna burger. It is made with responsibly sourced tuna loin—tuna that is wild caught and monitored by Friend of the Sea, a watchdog group that ensures fish […]

Consumers Prefer Healthy Lifestyles to Restrictive Diets

Each New Year is ushered in with celebrations, toasts, and diet ads to encourage weight loss resolutions, but U.S. consumers today prefer living healthier lifestyles as opposed to restricting their habits with dieting, finds The NPD Group, a global information company. Consumers define their own diets by putting more focus on the authenticity and purity […]

Fitlife Foods Opens Its First South Florida Location

The Southeast’s leading, fresh-prepared meals retailer, Fitlife Foods, is set to open its first South Florida location this weekend on Sunday, January 10. The retail location is at Market on University (1043 S. University Drive) in Plantation, Florida. Just in time for the New Year's focus on health and wellness, Fitlife Foods will bring its […]

Newk’s Kicks off New Year with 600-Calorie Menu

Newk’s Eatery, a fast-casual brand characterized by its obsession with quality and flavor, introduced an expanded calorie-conscious menu that is focused on indulgent flavors from time-tested family recipes. Newk’s has expanded its 600-Calorie Menu to include dozens of delicious, low-calorie options that skimp on calories but not flavor. The expanded 600-Calorie Menu—which has been introduced […]

An Industry First: Carl’s Jr. Launches Turkey Burger Line

CKE burger brand Carl’s Jr. continues to pioneer the fast-food space with the introduction of the industry’s first All-Natural Turkey Burger line. Available now at participating restaurants, All-Natural Turkey Burgers feature an all-natural, quarter-pound patty made from turkey raised with no antibiotics ever and served in three varieties, all 500 calories or less: Original, Jalapeño, […]

New Nekter Juice Bar Program to Encourage Healthy Lifestyle

Nekter Juice Bar, a juice concept with an array of natural, fresh, and cold-pressed juices, smoothies, coffees, and acai bowls, announced three New Year’s initiatives to inspire its fans to embrace the power of healthy living. “21 Days of Nekter” is a new “Live Life Well” program developed to encourage people to start a new […]

California Tortilla’s New Burrito is Super. Really.

Overdid it on eggnog and Christmas cookies this December? Good news: California Tortilla is offering a healthy new option to help ring in the New Year that’s as delicious as it is nutritious. Introducing the Super Food Burrito, a protein-packed menu option that’s available starting January 4 for a limited time only. Made with the […]

Sharky’s Promotes ‘Naked’ Items for the New Year

To help their guests who want to start the New Year in a healthier-eating frame of mind, Sharky’s Woodfired Mexican Grill will offer one lucky fan the chance to win a year’s worth, or 52 meals, of Sharky’s Get It Naked menu items or Power Plates by sharing a photo on social media taken at […]

Juice It Up! Celebrates Holiday with Promo and Contest

Juice It Up!, one of the nation’s leading raw juice bar and handcrafted smoothie franchises, announced its Five Days of “Oh What Fun!” holiday campaign. During the five days leading up to Christmas—December 20­ to 24—guests can win up to $500 in Juice It Up! gift cards at every location. The company is also offering […]

Grabbagreen Expands to East Coast

The healthy, fast-casual powerhouse Grabbagreen continues to pave the way as they lead the charge of making fast food healthy and expand throughout the East Coast. The Arizona-based brand has just completed a development agreement with Paul Stephen Hudson and Bernard Ciszewski of BeinGreen Inc. out of Maplewood, New Jersey, bringing 20 new locations to […]