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☆ McDonald’s bet on viral success with its Grimace shake. TikTok users are pretending it killed them
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-28 | by ( Scottie Andrew | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

Since the debut of the Grimace shake earlier this month, TikTok users have been excitedly ordering the shake, released in honor of McDonald’s character Grimace’s “birthday,” and then pretending to die on camera after consuming the purple beverage. They often dump the shake over their convulsing bodies, apparently signaling that Grimace, that bumbling bestie of Ronald McDonald, killed them. The Grimace shake, though, has become more infamous than beloved. In a typical “Grimace Shake” TikTok, an enthusiastic young person, Grimace shake in hand, will wish the big purple mascot a happy birthday before taking their first sip. When reached for comment, McDonald’s referred CNN to a tweet from Grimace: “meee pretending i don’t see the grimace shake trendd,” along with a photo of the purple one himself, eyebrows raised.

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☆ Owner of New Jersey restaurant that trademarked 'Taco Tuesday' weighs in on Taco Bell's petition
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-27 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailOwner of New Jersey restaurant that trademarked 'Taco Tuesday' weighs in on Taco Bell's petitionGreg Gregory, Gregory's Restaurant co-owner, joins 'Last Call' to give his side of the legal battle for the 'Taco Tuesday' trademark that his New Jersey restaurant has held since 1982.

Persons: Taco Bell's, Greg Gregory Organizations: New Locations: New Jersey, Taco

☆ The Battle for Taco Tuesday Gets Heated
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-26 | by ( Joseph De Avila | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Taco John’s responds to Taco Bell’s Taco Tuesday lawsuit
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-26 | by ( Jordan Valinsky | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

New York CNN —The fight for the “Taco Tuesday” trademark is getting spicy. Taco John’s, a regional chain, has responded to Taco Bell’s effort to liberate the phrase so that anyone can use it. In a filing Friday, responding to Taco Bell’s petition to “cancel” the trademark, Taco John’s parent company Spicy Seasonings denied there is “anything ‘not cool’ about” obtaining a trademark for the phrase. Gerben expects that Taco John’s and Gregory Hotel will likely conduct their own investigation as to whether or not Taco Bell has been “attempting to assist other restaurants or celebrities to use Taco Tuesday in an attempt to invalidate their trademark rights,” perhaps with a similar customer survey. “This is not going to be something where Taco Bell is going to be able to declare victory anytime soon,” he said.

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☆ Why cities want to ban new drive-thrus
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-24 | by ( Nathaniel Meyersohn | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

Magnets of traffic and congestion, drive-thrus discourage walking, public transit use and visits to neighboring businesses. A host of cities and regions want the sprawl to stop: Atlanta lawmakers will vote this summer on whether to ban new drive-thrus in the popular Beltline area. Minneapolis; Fair Haven, New Jersey; Creve Coeur, Missouri; Orchard Park, New York, and other cities have banned new drive-thrus in recent years. Experts say pedestrian safety can be improved by tightly managing access along arterial roads and locating drive-thrus away from them. Cities push backAtlanta City Councilman Jason Dozier proposed a bill this year to block new drive-thrus around the Atlanta Beltline, a pedestrian trail along a 22-mile railroad corridor.

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☆ Fans are just noticing that an iconic Good Humor ice cream treat no longer exists
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-21 | by ( Jordan Valinsky | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

New York CNN —Not since last year’s disappearance of the Choco Taco have ice cream fans been this shocked. Good Humor confirmed that its Toasted Almond bar, the sweet treat that has been around since the 1960s, is no more. Good Humor, owned by Unilever (UL), actually axed the product in 2022, but customers are noticing just now as summer starts. The company’s account on Twitter has been replying to depressed customers’ complaints and relaying a similar statement. One person tweeted “just found out the good humor toasted almond bars have been discontinued and it has ruined my year” and another posted that Good Humor has “made the biggest mistake in history.”The Toasted Almond bar joins the Choco Taco, a popular dessert previously made by Klondike, in the ice cream graveyard.

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☆ These Fish Tacos Couldn’t Be More Brilliant
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-21 | by ( Eric Kim | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

And in Herrera’s recipe, it will occupy most of your time, but the return on investment couldn’t be higher. The resulting mixture gives a warmth and complexity — a “Hmm, what is that?” — to an otherwise breezy al pastor. When he first opened Ensenada, Herrera used pale out-of-season tomatoes that diluted the bright coastal flavors he wanted to showcase in these fish tacos. But it’s not just the pineapple that makes this fish al pastor — it’s the char. Al pastor, “in the style of a shepherd,” is a method of barbecuing meat on a rotating vertical spit that Lebanese immigrants brought to Mexico in the late 19th century.

Persons: Herrera, Cosme, pescado, —, gallo, chiles, Adobo, it’s Organizations: Alto Locations: Caracas, Venezuela, Manhattan, Ensenada, Mexico

☆ Juneteenth in Brooklyn: Red Velvet Cake Served With a Side of History
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-19 | by ( Dodai Stewart | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

All afternoon, people lined up for Shelly Flash’s specialties: jerk cheese nachos and jerk chicken dinner tacos — that’s chicken, coconut rice, black beans, sweet plantains, pickled slaw, chipotle aioli and jerk sour cream inside a soft tortilla. The Jamaican taco business, 2 Girls & a Cookshop, is owned by Ms. Flash was a schoolteacher before the pandemic but last year decided to make food a full-time gig, she said. The city’s Black population has declined by nearly 200,000 people in the past two decades. “I love this organization, focusing on the businesses and the Black people that are here and saying, ‘Hey, we’re still here.’”

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☆ How DashCon gave us one of the most important social media lessons of the 2010s
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-18 | by ( Aj Willingham | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

The result was DashCon, an attempt to bring together Tumblr users from different interests and fandoms for a single event. For all its (somewhat hilarious) failures, DashCon immediately became a core parable of our social media lore. Like so many other Tumblr users, O’Neil was just a nerdy teenager with cool interests looking for other people like her. A view of the iconic DashCon ball pit at the Renaissance Schaumburg Convention Center Hotel in Schaumburg, Illinois. She said people still send her cosplays of the infamous ball pit, almost 10 years later.

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☆ How restaurants such as Panera and Chipotle are dipping into A.I. to streamline food prep and ordering
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-17 | by ( Kate Rogers | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

From drive-thru to back-of-house operations to predictive ordering for consumers, restaurant brands are starting to pilot artificial intelligence to streamline food service. McDonald's , for its part, sold McD Tech Labs to IBM in 2021, entering a strategic partnership to help bring AI technology to drive-thru lanes. McD Tech Labs, which was formerly known as Apprente before McDonald's acquired it, used AI to understand drive-thru orders. Del Taco is also using voice-activated AI for orders at its drive-thru, as is Wingstop for orders placed by phone. For Panera, it's a question of, "How do we redeploy our people to higher value, higher quality guest experiences," said Chief Digital Officer George Hanson.

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Wendy's will pilot its new AI drive-thru tech this month at some locations in the Columbus, Ohio, area. The hesitancy to discuss any generative AI implementation is understandable. That said, we think that generative AI opportunities at Starbucks are still worth considering. This is where we think there's a clear opportunity for margin improvement as generative AI adoption goes mainstream. There are going to be a lot of opportunities to invest in to play the adoption of generative AI outside of tech.

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☆ A California taco restaurant hired a 'priest' to ask staff to confess to workplace 'sins' like arriving late, an ex-employee told the Department of Labor
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-14 | by ( Grace Dean | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

A restaurant got a person "identified as a priest" to ask staff to confess to workplace "sins," an ex-worker said. They told a court the "priest" asked if they had stolen from the Sacramento, CA restaurant or harmed their employer. "The priest told me that he would instead ask me questions to get the sins out of me." They said that after the priest talked to staff, he left the restaurant together with one of the owners. Workers claimed that during the investigation, the restaurants instructed staff not to work with the DOL and told them to share false information.

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☆ One Draft Pick and Years of Trust Made the Denver Nuggets NBA Champions
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-12 | by ( Robert O Connell | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

DENVER—When the Denver Nuggets selected Nikola Jokic with the 41st pick in the NBA draft nine summers ago, the 6-foot-11 Serbian was fast asleep. The television broadcast didn’t show the selection live, instead airing a commercial for an addition to the Taco Bell menu. Devotees of European basketball had heard rumors of a portly giant from Sombor who threw precognitive passes, but nobody claimed that the future had changed.

Persons: Nikola Jokic Organizations: DENVER, Denver Nuggets, NBA, Taco Bell Locations: Serbian

☆ Taco Bell's iconic Crunchwrap menu item is going vegan
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-07 | by ( Jordan Valinsky | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Taco Bell to test Vegan Crunchwrap with plant-based beef and cheese in 3 cities
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-07 | by ( Amelia Lucas | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Taco Bell will sell a vegan version of its popular Crunchwrap, made with plant-based beef and cheese, in three U.S. cities for a limited time, it said Wednesday. Starting Thursday, customers in Los Angeles, New York and Orlando will be able to order the Vegan Crunchwrap. Vegetarians were also among the fans who successfully pushed Taco Bell to bring back its cult-favorite Mexican Pizza. Taco Bell used pea protein and soy to make the vegan beef in the new Crunchwrap. For the vegan blanco sauce and vegan nacho sauce, Taco Bell used soy as the main base.

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☆ James Beard Award 2023 winners announced
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-06 | by ( Marnie Hunter | Forrest Brown | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

The awards have been presented in the Windy City since 2015 and are set to remain there through 2027. Like last year, much of the 2023 show was focused on showcasing the new push for greater diversity. The James Beard Foundation has been mired in controversy over the past few years. The winner of the South category, Natalia Vallejo, is the first Puerto Rican native to win a James Beard Award. Here’s the full list of the 2023 James Beard Restaurant and Chef Awards nominees.

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That month, it announced five new agreements with multi-unit operators to condense and transfer more than 230 existing restaurants. "There is strong interest in growth opportunities with Subway from multi-unit operators," Subway said in a statement to Reuters for this story. Klein, the franchise attorney, said that since 2022, his firm examined three multi-unit Subway deals on behalf of clients interested in investing in the chain for the first time. Of the 100 largest multi-unit U.S. restaurant franchisees by revenue in 2022, none had a Subway in their portfolio, according to a ranking by Franchise Times magazine. Instead, top franchisees owned hundreds of Wendy's (WEN.O), Yum Brands' (YUM.N) Pizza Hut and Taco Bell, Restaurant Brands' Burger King, Dine Brands' (DIN.N) Applebee's and other chains.

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☆ The Newest High-End Amenity: Houses That Come With Horses
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-01 | by ( Sarah Maslin Nir | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Mr. Malm said he was once married to a horse therapist, but he did not buy the property because he is interested in playing polo. The horses appealed as a “hook” for a future buyer, once he first enjoys his vacation home. “It is an amenity that people aspire to, a lifestyle,” Mr. Malm said. On weekends, the stables, also designed by Mr. Joy, host exhibition polo matches exclusively for residents and guests. There is a library of loaner riding boots and helmets and professional players to teach lessons.

Persons: Malm, Mr, Enrique Olvera, Joy, sipping Organizations: Staff Locations: Mexico City, Argentine

☆ The Data Science Behind Raising Fast Food Prices
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-31 | by ( Heather Haddon | Photographs Rachel Wisniewski For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

The data team discovered instances when Flynn’s restaurant managers had boosted prices too much for individual items or too little compared with other types of food. At Flynn’s roughly 290 Taco Bell restaurants, for example, some stores had increased prices for the brand’s popular Doritos Locos Tacos by around a dollar more than the regular version, and some customers were starting to resist, executives said. The team advised managers to stop raising prices on that item.

Organizations: Taco Bell Locations: Flynn’s

☆ Toyota unveils new Tacoma pickup hybrid option
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-18 | by ( Peter Valdes-Dapena | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —The Toyota Tacoma has been the best-selling mid-sized pickup in America for the last 20 years but its territory is getting much more competitive. To help it stay ahead in a crowded auto-industry battle for small-truck customers, Toyota just unveiled an entirely new Tacoma. The Toyota Tacoma Limited is the most luxurious version of the truck. ToyotaPopular with off-road enthusiasts, the new Tacoma will be available in several different off-road-focused versions: the TRD Pro, TRD Off-road, and the new Trailhunter model. TRD Off-Road, on which the hybrid system will be optional, will be engineered for more rugged terrain.

Trademark Office to cancel two smaller rivals' "Taco Tuesday" trademarks in what the largest Mexican fast-food chain in the U.S. called a bid to "liberate the phrase for restaurants nationwide." Taco Bell's petitions said the trademarks, owned by Gregory's Restaurant & Bar in New Jersey and Wyoming-based Taco John's in the rest of the country, wrongly monopolize the use of the phrase in the restaurant industry. "Nobody should have exclusive rights in a common phrase," the petitions said. Representatives for Taco John's, whose "Taco Tuesday" trademark registration dates to 1989, did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the petitions. The office last year cited similar reasons for rejecting a brewery's bid for a federal "Taco Tuesday" mark covering beer.

☆ Taco Bell is fighting to cancel a rival's trademark on the phrase 'Taco Tuesday,' saying nobody should have 'exclusive rights'
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-16 | by ( Alex Bitter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Taco Bell is challenging trademarks on the phrase "Taco Tuesday" in a PR blitz. "Nobody should have should have exclusive rights in a common phrase," one of Taco Bell's petitions reads. Taco John's controls a trademark for "Taco Tuesday" in 49 states, according to Nation's Restaurant News. Taco John's website on Tuesday after it released its response to Taco Bell's petitions. "Taco John's, despite all of its claims to the contrary, did not invent Taco Tuesday — nowhere even close to inventing Taco Tuesday," Arellano told Marketplace.

☆ Gen Z is forcing fast-food restaurants to change their menus. They're now offering more spicy food and chicken to lure in younger diners.
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-16 | by ( Grace Dean | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Gen Z diners crave spicy food and chicken more than other generations. Restaurant execs say that younger diners crave spicy food and chicken. "Spice levels generally heat up with younger generations," Fabiola Del Rio, VP of integrated marketing communications at Panda Express, told Insider. And where they can, Gen Zers like to get their chicken spicy, too. Or a restaurant exec who's noticed interesting dining patterns among your Gen Z customers?

☆ Taco Bell is fighting to cancel the ‘Taco Tuesday’ trademark
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-16 | by ( Jordan Valinsky | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

New York CNN —Taco Bell wants to liberate the “Taco Tuesday” trademark from a smaller, rival chain. The taco chain filed a petition Tuesday (naturally) with the US Patent and Trademark office to cancel the trademark, owned by rival Taco John’s for 34 years, because Taco Bell claims the commonly used phrase “should be freely available to all who make, sell, eat and celebrate tacos.”Since Taco John’s owns the trademark, other restaurants and companies must seek permission to use “Taco Tuesday” in branding and advertising. Taco Bell added that “nobody should have exclusive rights in a common phrase.”Maggie Mettler, director of legal for Taco Bell’s parent company, Yum! And it may have a strong case, because “Taco Tuesday” has become a commonly used phrase, according to trademark attorney Josh Gerben. “Taco John’s would like to thank our worthy competitors at Taco Bell for reminding everyone that ‘Taco Tuesday’ is best celebrated at Taco John’s – the trademark owner of Taco Tuesday.”In response, Taco John’s is selling a “Taco Tuesday” deal of 2 tacos for $2 everyday until May 31.

BURBANK, California, May 11 (Reuters) - As striking Hollywood writers protest working conditions, some are seeking more than a new labor contract. Single members of the Writers Guild of America gathered outside the Universal Studios lot this week for a combination of picketing and a dating mixer that later moved to a taco eatery. "Writers love to multitask, so this is perfect for us," said 42-year-old "Feed the Devil" writer Matt Altman. Workers and supporters of the Writers Guild of America protest outside Universal Studios Hollywood after union negotiators called a strike for film and television writers, in the Universal City area of Los Angeles, California, U.S., May 3, 2023. "Love, Victor" writer Van B. Nguyen, 37, said she thought it was a fun idea to combine fighting for change with fighting for love.

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