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With value positioning the dominant marketing strategy of the moment and snack occasions a top target, Arby’s is planning to revive the value-priced mini sandwich. Next month the chain will make a new three-item line of Mighty Minis sandwiches a local-option LTO for operators in select markets around the country, the company confirmed. The line [...]

When the recession kneecapped the restaurant industry in 2008, chains resorted to heavy dealing to stay afloat. But researcher NPD Group says some deals’ appeal appears to be wearing out. Last year, 23% of restaurant visits involved a deal, a 3% decrease from 2011 and the first time dealing has declined since 2008 (when dealing [...]

While Burger King manically adds new items by the dozen, McDonald’s and Wendy’s next week will introduce new mid-price chicken sandwiches with little risk because the tortilla and flatbread platforms have been tried and proven successful elsewhere for years. McDonald’s McWrap is another idea it borrows from its European operations (where beef and shrimp varieties [...]

Seth Gross offers this tip on preparing Camel Sliders: Don’t overload them with toppings like guacamole, jalapeňo or onion. Adding too many flavors masks the taste of the camel. “I think when you eat a camel burger, you want to taste the camel. You want to be able to say what camel tastes like. And [...]

Burger King’s Spring Menu for 2013 explodes in literally a dozen directions like fireworks. As BurgerBusiness.com tipped last week, new menu items include a Chipotle Whopper and Donut Holes. But this menu flies all over the board: there are a stuffed beef burger, regular beef burger, turkey and chicken sandwiches plus a chicken wrap. It [...]

Anthony Ackil, Jon Olinto and Tony Rosenfeld opened the first b. good restaurant in Boston’s Back Bay in January 2004. The concept’s signage promises “Real. Food. Fast” and the idea from the start was to prepare and serve locally sourced, all-natural food with QSR efficiency. Customers can order an all-natural beef, turkey chicken or veggie [...]

The 64 burger brands have been chosen, the brackets and matchups are set and votes are being taken and counted for the 4th Annual A.1. BurgerBusiness Burger Brackets. This year’s competition runs from March 18 through the evening of April 8, when a champion is named. Go to the Burger Brackets Page to see brackets, [...]

The menu-innovation desert that is February-March is almost behind us. After weeks spent promoting fish and value menus, burger chains are awakening from their naps and beginning to add new items to the menu mix to enliven sales. What we’re hearing: • Having established its new Right Price, Right Size budget menu, Wendy’s as early as [...]

What a long, strange trip it’s been. Ryan Harkins and Matt Chernus were among the early food-truck heroes when they got the Grill ‘Em All rolling the streets of Los Angles in 2009. They built their fame on a menu of heavy-metal-themed burgers like the Behemoth (grilled-cheese buns, Cheddar, barbecue sauce, pickle, grilled onion and [...]

BurgerFi’s philosophy is “ All natural tastes better.” Its business mantra appears to be “Start fast; stay fast.” Based in North Palm Beach, Fla., fast-casual BurgerFi opened its first restaurant little more than two years ago but it has deals for more than 200 franchised units. That includes three in New York City, the first [...]

A McDonald’s franchisee says the chain will remove Angus Third Pounder burgers, Chicken Selects and apple-walnut salad, a move likely intended to clear menu space for an expected rollout of McWraps and other new items. McEnaney Enterprises, a Princeton, Ky.-based McDonald’s operator, announced via Twitter that the Selects , the salad and Angus burgers all [...]

In line with its stated intention to focus more attention on value pricing, Burger King is testing consumer response to a daily-discount program it already has in place in the UK and Canada. The “King Deals” tactic testing in select markets offers a different discounted meal on each weekday as a sort of rapid-fire limited-time-offer [...]

Looking to take on Denny’s, McDonald’s and every other kid on the late-night block, Steak ’n Shake has launched an audacious new AllNighter Menu available between midnight and 6 a.m. while also making its full breakfast menu available now from midnight to 11 a.m. (at participating locations, of course). The attention grabber on the AllNighter [...]

In each of the last three years, Michael Symon has won The People’s Choice Award for top burger at the Burger Bash held during the annual Food Network South Beach Wine & Food Festival. He’ll defend that title at this year’s event, which begins Friday (2/22). When not competing, he operates four B Spot burger [...]

“Top Chef” never has been a burger fan, and never less so than during this 10th season, which begins its two-part finale this week. As happened with past burger creators, both contestants who prepared burgers this season packed their knives and left as a result. Talk about a risotto curse if you want, but burgers [...]