News on Food Trends from Northern America

At a time when many large restaurant chains are struggling, Burger King Holdings Inc. CEO John Chidsey has managed to sustain the once-foundering fast-food company's turnaround. The world's No. 2 hamburger chain by locations behind McDonald's Corp. is ...

Wendy's International Inc named Steve Farrar to the new position of chief of North America operations, effective April 14. The hamburger chain said Farrar will be responsible for improving operations at company and franchise restaurants in the United...

According to a public opinion survey commissioned by the Transatlantic Consumer Dialogue (TACD), 82 percent of Americans think food companies should be making a greater effort to reformulate for more better-for-you products.Although this is a high perc...

Hamburger chain Wendy's International (NYSE:WEN) Inc. said Thursday its first-quarter same-store sales declined, partly hurt by a shift in the Easter holiday.Same-store sales at U.S. company restaurants slipped 1.6 percent compared with a 3.8 percent r...

McDonald's Corp. has set out to dispel some myths about ingredients and preparation as part of a yearlong food-credibility campaign"We've been hearing over the years that consumers have some misperceptions about the quality of our food at McDonal...

ConAgra Foods Inc. bought Watts Brothers, a private vegetable-processing and agricultural company, for about $132 million in cash and assumed liabilities. In a filing Thursday with the Securities and Exchange Commission, ConAgra said that the assumed ...

Martin-Brower Co., a major distributor for McDonald's Corp. restaurants, has will triple in size by purchasing 22 acres in The Woodlands. The Rosemont, Ill.-based company currently services McDonald's stores in South Central Texas out of a distributio...

Burger King Holdings Inc. plans to start building a new version of its restaurants this year called the Whopper Bar that will sell a wider variety of its signature hamburger in a hipper setting. The menu and size of the Whopper Bars will be smaller tha...

McDonald's provided consumers an update on sustainable packaging enhancement they have been making and enacting worldwide. The update was posted on the company's corporate social responsibility blog, Open for Discussion and features a Youtube video. T...

Local counties can't require restaurants to post nutrition information about their menu items under a bill that easily passed the (Georgia) Senate Thursday. The bill, which sailed through the House earlier this session, now goes to the governor's desk...

As food prices surge, America’s supermarkets are also feeling the pain. While consumer food prices are up five percent, wholesale prices have soared a whopping 20 percent. CNBC talked to the chief executives of General Mills and SuperValu to get their...

La cadena realiza estudios de mercado con el fin de incluir pollo asado en su menú, para quienes prefieren no consumir la comida frita característica de la compañía.   Así, KFC, con más de 14 mil locales de comida en más de 80 países sigue la tendenci...

The newest demonstration of solar power(figuratively) is coming from the Frito-Lay division of PepsiCo, which is using the sun to help transform its SunChips line of multigrain snack chips into a “green” brand. The initiative is centered on the additio...

When Chipotle Mexican Grill executives decided to begin serving local pork from one of the most famous farmers in America, they did the opposite of what most big companies would do when jumping on the latest trend. They said nothing. "We wanted ...

Baltimore City Mayor Sheila Dixon signed a bill Thursday that bans restaurants from serving foods make with trans fats. The mayor's anticipated signature makes the bill a law. The Baltimore City Council unanimously voted March 18 to approve the bill,...

For over 65 years, Kentucky Fried Chicken has served up Colonel Sanders' famous Original Recipe(R) fried chicken. Now KFC is market testing a revolutionary finger lickin' new menu addition -- Kentucky Grilled Chicken. "This great tasting product ...

A global surge in food and fuel prices has become a serious problem for developing countries and the problems are likely to persist for years, a senior World Bank official said Thursday.   While some benefit from higher revenue on export of commoditie...

More than 50 consumer groups have launched a worldwide campaign to reduce the marketing of unhealthy food to children. Among other things, the new voluntary code calls for tight restrictions on both television and Internet advertising, prohibits the ma...