Top Fast Food News

Bojangles’, the iconic restaurant famous for its hand-breaded, bone-in chicken, made-from-scratch buttermilk biscuits and Legendary Iced Tea steeped the old fashioned way, will premiere its innovative new restaurant design at a grand opening on January 11. Located at 2419 Laurens Road in Greenville, South Carolina, the new 3,900-square-foot restaurant boasts a variety of new features […]

CAVA, the rapidly expanding fast casual Mediterranean restaurant brand, announced the launch of its new app as the latest step in their use of technology to create personalized experiences for their customers. The app will allow customers to order ahead and reorder meals with just a few taps, pay ahead of time, pick up quickly, […]

McDonald’s Corporation announced Monday, along with CITIC Limited, CITIC Capital Holdings, and The Carlyle Group, the formation of a partnership and company that will act as the master franchisee responsible for McDonald’s businesses in mainland China and Hong Kong for a term of 20 years. The total consideration payable by the new company to acquire […]

Shake Shack Inc. announced that the board of directors has appointed Zach Koff to serve as the company’s first Chief Operating Officer. The company also announced that Jeff Uttz will retire as Chief Financial Officer in 2017. Koff has been leading operations at Shake Shack since the fourth Shack opened in Miami Beach. Zach has […]

Papa John’s International, Inc., announced the signing of a restaurant development agreement that will accelerate growth of the Papa John’s brand in the Boston market. 1630 Pizza Company LLC, which is owned and operated by two long-term franchisees, has signed a development agreement to open 25 units over the next five years. “We are excited […]

Chipotle Mexican Grill announced its New Year’s resolution: an online tool to help customers not just count calories, but make calories count. Chipotle is launching a dietary options page that shows which ingredients are right for specific individual needs, so that customers can build a specifically customized meal, no matter their dietary restrictions or preferences. […]

Good Times Restaurants Inc., operator of Good Times Burgers & Frozen Custard, a regional quick-service restaurant chain focused on fresh, high-quality, all-natural products, and of Bad Daddy’s Burger Bar, a full-service, upscale concept, announced that its Bad Daddy’s same store sales increased 2 percent in its fiscal first quarter ended December 27, 2016 over the […]

Argosy Private Equity and MTN Capital announced Tuesday the acquisition of a controlling stake in Rita’s Franchise Company, LLC based in Trevose, Pennsylvania (“Rita’s”) the world’s largest Italian Ice concept from Falconhead Capital. As part of the agreement, Kirk Griswold, founding partner at Argosy Private Equity, will join Rita’s board as chairman and Jeff Moody […]

It’s a New Year and Subway restaurants and the American Heart Association are encouraging consumers to add just one extra “cup of color” to their daily diet in 2017, which can help improve the health of all Americans. Subway offers millions of handcrafted sandwich and salad combinations and 10 varieties of vegetables to its guests, […]

U.S. restaurant industry traffic will remain stalled in 2017 in much the same manner it did in 2016, reports The NPD Group, a leading global information company. The New Year will bring little to no traffic growth for the total U.S. foodservice market. Quick service restaurants, however, will increase visits by an estimated 1 percent, […]

Wienerschnitzel, the world’s largest hot dog chain, is celebrating the New Year in an extremely cheesy way. All day long on January 1 fans can load up on the chain’s famous Chili Cheese Fries for just 99 cents each. Featuring a heaping mound of perfectly golden French Fries topped with Wienerschnitzel’s secret recipe Chili and […]

Dickey’s Barbecue Pit is hoping to help parents this holiday season by offering Kids Eat Free at all Dickey’s locations across the nation beginning December 26. At Dickey’s, Kids Eat Free from December 26 to January 1 with every adult dine-in purchase of $10 or more. “Dickey’s Barbecue Pit is a family-owned business that knows […]