When the Los Angeles district attorney’s office filed charges yesterday (April 28) against Bumble Bee Foods and two company employees for their role in the 2012 death of Jose Melena, it was hard not to fixate on the grisly way Melena had died, trapped in an industrial oven that was cooking 12,000 pounds of tuna.
If at first your ad campaign gets accused of promoting sexual assault, try, try again. Or at least, that seems to be the PR mantra at the US beer giant Budweiser.
Even as McDonald’s tries to go highbrow with its “artisan” chicken sandwich, Taco Bell continues to stick with its decidedly low-brow menu strategy. The company that brought you the Doritos Locos Tacos and the Waffle Taco (since ditched for a full line of biscuit tacos) is now testing out at least three more menu items aimed squarely at the late-night munchies customer.
It is every American politician’s God-given right to overeat on the campaign trail. Corn dogs, barbecue, Chipotle—it’s all in a day’s work if you’re looking to become the next president of the United States.
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Hot on the heels of Kraft’s announcement that it is taking artificial dyes out of Macaroni & Cheese, another food giant is reformulating a famous product: PepsiCo says that Diet Pepsi sold in America will no longer contain aspartame.
Chipotle fans were so busy decrying the continuing carnitas shortage yesterday that they may have missed the good news: The chain is now offering delivery service in the 67 US cities where the delivery app Postmates operates.
Yesterday, New York Magazine asked a pressing and emotionally loaded question: “Have You Eaten Your Last Avocado?“
In times of economic trouble, Spam flies off the shelves. But now, as the economy improves, Hormel Foods’ canned pre-cooked pork is looking for a new, higher-brow market.
After successfully opening restaurants in Russia, Turkey, London, and all over the Middle East, Shake Shack is finally paying some attention to Los Angeles. The company has announced plans to open its first location on the US west coast, in West Hollywood, next year.
Good news for North Americans with a soft spot for Kraft’s Macaroni & Cheese but worried about the potential health implications of artificial dyes.
It’s not just McDonald’s employees who have a beef with the burger chain: The company’s franchisees—the people actually running about 90% of the restaurants—aren’t very happy with HQ either, a new survey from Janney Capital Markets found.
Organic food is winning right now.
For the third year in a row, Americans ranked the iconic California burger chain In-N-Out as their favorite “limited-service” restaurant chain, according to the influential industry publication Nation’s Restaurant News, in its annual Consumer Picks survey. It also scored the top spot in the hamburger chain category.
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Evidence about the dangers of antibiotic use in livestock and its connection to resistance in humans is sufficiently compelling that groups as weighty as the World Heath Organization, the US Centers for Disease Control, and the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology have sounded the alarm. It prompted the US Food and Drug Agency to make an initial call for a voluntary reduction in 2012. But the amount of antibiotics bought for food animals in the US continues to rise:
