Hints and tips:
...Others noticed it coincided with the launch of a new winter menu, which could have underwhelmed customers....
...Chief among them is its “barbell” pricing strategy, promoting traffic-driving deals on low-priced menu items alongside new, pricier offerings....
...McDonald’s has reported weaker than expected same-store sales in its fourth quarter, as the fast-food chain became the latest company to warn that boycotts related to the war in Gaza have hurt its business...
...International brands such as Starbucks have proliferated in its place, seeking to ingratiate themselves by focusing on speciality Indian-grown coffee and adapting their menu to local tastes with masala potato...
...Allison’s expensed pizzas were equivalent to 124 per cent of the average US consumer’s total 2020 at-home food spending....
...Until February 26; further information and tickets here ‘Corps à corps: Histoire (s) de la photographie’ (Body to Body: History/Story (ies) of Photography), Centre Pompidou A show investigating how 20th...
...Lavish entertaining is off the menu. Even if you can afford it, like aspic, it’s tasteless. What corners can you cut but still entertain with style?...
...Fast food restaurants burnt by red-hot inflation are turning to customers to cool down. From McDonald’s to Domino’s Pizza, big chain operators are raising menu prices and shrinking portions....
...In the US, where the chain has more than 13,000 outlets, McDonald’s said sales growth had been “driven by strategic menu price increases” and that inflation was pushing customers to seek discounted options...
...It is not just the name that has changed, with the word “Mac” removed from the menu....
...Under the terms of the deal announced on Thursday, Govor will take over the group’s entire Russian portfolio of about 850 restaurants, operate them under a new brand and offer a different menu....
...The fast food industry’s franchise model has also complicated efforts to leave Russia....
...There are 170,000 ways to customise drinks at Starbucks stores, including all the multicoloured, off-menu blends that Gen Z customers request before posting videos on TikTok....
...Supplies of hash browns, which appear on the breakfast menu, appear unaffected by the delivery disruption....
...Baleen — the stiff screen of bristle in the mouth that keeps food in as water shoots out — was transfigured into corset stays and skirt hoops....
...Perhaps prison food isn’t such a culinary nadir after all....
...when Lex articles are published, just click the button ‘Add to myFT’, which appears at the top of this page above the headline Letter in response to this column: McDonald’s puts its finances on the menu...
...“The truth is, despite these difficulties Itsu’s modern menu is keeping us busy and buoyant.”...
...“We have a very Darwinian menu. Whatever sells, we put on the menu; whatever doesn’t sell, we take off,” he says, but “there needs to be a certain level of demand....
...Pre-Covid, the easiest way to avoid the awful pain of New Year’s Eve was to go abroad, but that’s largely off the menu now....
...Inspire Brands is paying a full-fat, high-in-sugar price to add doughnuts and coffee to its menu....
...A migration of people can change a place, like California after the Dust Bowl or the Midwest after the Great African American Migration....
...Her Notting Hill restaurant has just reopened after lockdown, but it will continue to offer a home-delivery service of the restaurant menu on a Friday and Saturday, and it’s business as usual again at her...
...Uber has also abandoned a plan to run its own food delivery kitchens, taking itself out of competition with its ousted founder Travis Kalanick. 2....
...Uber cooks up plans to buy Grubhub and dominate food delivery Grubhub chief executive Matt Maloney had long predicted a “reckoning” in the US food delivery industry....
International Edition