News on Food Trends from the United States

McDonald’s Corp. reported on Thursday first-quarter earnings growth stemming from same-store sales growth in all areas of the world, which it said was strong in March and continuing through April. “March was a real good month,” Peter Bensen, McDon...

First-quarter reports from public restaurant companies rolled in this week and have highlighted a long-awaited return of guest traffic after nearly two years of eateries losing customers who have been reluctant to spend.Restaurant executives from McDon...

McDonald's reportó el miércoles ganancias trimestrales que superaron los pronósticos de los analistas gracias al repunte del mercado estadounidense en marzo y a que las ventas globales mantuvieron el impulso durante abril. Las acciones de la mayor cad...

McDonald's Corporation (NYSE: MCD) today announced strong results for the first quarter driven by all areas of the world. "McDonald's compelling menu, unmatched convenience and unbeatable value generated another strong quarterly performance,&quot...

Restaurant companies releasing first-quarter results in the weeks ahead are expected to report improved sales trends, continued cost controls and a heightened sense that an industry recovery has begun, according to securities analysts.While severe wint...

In the beginning, chips meant corn and potato. Then came Terra veggie chips and it was good. Now entire entrees, it seems, are available in chip form.   Risotto Chips ($2.99, 5 ounces) from New York Style are a bit of a misnomer. They're crunchy and c...

On many weeknights last year, in the depths of the recession, Tursi’s Latin King restaurant in Des Moines closed one of its three dining rooms and pared its kitchen to a skeleton crew. Now, all three rooms are open on most nights, and the kitchen is b...

Wal-Mart and Whole Foods -- the nation's lowest- and highest-priced big grocers, respectively -- have inched a little closer together. Wal-Mart, despite launching an aggressive marketing campaign this month touting its price cuts, or "rollbacks...

En la víspera del Mes de la Tierra, la marca de papas fritas SunChips, de Frito-Lay, firma perteneciente a la multinacional PepsiCo, presentó oficialmente al mercado la “primera bolsa de pasabocas cien por ciento compostable”, según la compañía. El la...

ConAgra Foods, Inc. (NYSE: CAG) announced today that it has acquired Elan Nutrition, a privately-held formulator and manufacturer of snack and nutrition bars based in Grand Rapids, Mich. Financial terms of the transaction, which closed today, were not...

The rough economy and high unemployment have posed "considerable challenges"for the $30 billion healthy-snack marketplace, according to a June 2009 industry report from Mintel. One in four consumers have cut back on their snack spending, acc...

After more than two years of slow sales and anemic guest traffic for restaurant operators, Wall Street analysts say a recovery in consumer spending may finally be here. “We officially declare that ‘the restaurant consumer recovery’ began in March 20...

PepsiCo’s Frito-Lay Topeka, Kansas, facility today became the state’s first manufacturing site, and the nation’s second food manufacturing site, to be awarded LEED® Existing Building (EB) Gold Certification from the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC),...

The rival buyout offer received by CKE Restaurants Inc. this week was from private-equity firm Apollo Management, Reuters reported Thursday.   CKE, the Carpinteria, Calif.-based parent to the Carl’s Jr. and Hardee’s chains, has until April 27 to evalua...

While the economic climate could lead companies in the sector to cut back on the development of new packaging ideas, some, as Deanna Dixon Sievers, packaging manager at Burger King reveals to Packaging and Converting Intelligence (PCI), are pressing ah...

Snack manufacturer Snyder's of Hanover announces it will be using  a "renewable "packaging solution for its line of organic products.   The new package is made from raw materials that are 90 percent plant-based , informed the packaging manu...

ConAgra Foods, Inc., (NYSE: CAG) one of North America's leading food makers, today announced five aggressive sustainability goals to be achieved by 2015. The goals build on the company's sustainability accomplishments, which began in a company-wide fas...

No country has embraced the movement toward commercialized, prepackaged food as much as the United States.   Americans eat 31 percent more packaged food than fresh food, and they consume more packaged food per person than their counterparts in nearly ...