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Pacific Northwest chain Burgerville’s latest seasonal specials are a ¼-lb. Chili Cheeseburger accompanied by Chili Cheese Waffle Fries that are just a nudge away from being that Canadian national favorite poutine. Technically, poutine is fries topped with cheese curds and brown gravy, and Burgerville’s dish lacks the curds, although it has Tillamook white Cheddar cheese. [...]

Jack in the Box this week is rolling out improved burgers as part of a year-long effort to upgrade both core menu products and its overall guest experience. Speaking to analysts today, Jack in the Box Chairman-President-CEO Linda Lang said the chain is introducing burger patties with “improved taste, texture an juiciness” that have performed [...]

[More chicken news: Burger King's holiday menu in the UK includes a Cranberry Chicken Tendercrisp sandwich.] So much of the burger business is about chicken now that it’s only right that the week start with a couple of chicken items: ● Hardee’s has extended its popular Hand-Breaded Chicken line with Buffalo-flavor tenders (in 3- or [...]

Introducing a sandwich that combines a beef patty and  fried shrimp is upscale enough. Borrowing a name from fine dining and called it a surf-and-turf burger is further upper class. But the Surf & Turf burger that joined the menu at McDonald’s restaurants in Austria this week has a fine-dining pedigree: It was developed for [...]

[Nov. 30 update: Burger King finally admits it has new french fries, as reported below 2 weeks earlier.] McDonald’s has built an interesting promotion in Denmark around the new QR (Quick Response) Codes and audio codes that newer-model smartphones can read. There’s a Facebook element as well. The result is a 21st century game-piece promotion [...]

[Update: The battle escalated on 11/15 with McDonald's addition of the spicy Chicken Scorcher sandwich to counter KFC's Zinger line.] There’s nothing quite like the chicken fight in Australia, where both McDonald’s and KFC sell chicken wings and “burgers.” Consider KFC’s Family Burger Box, an all-chicken version of the Family Dinner Box meal idea that [...]

Fresh from last month’s introduction of the premium Dave’s Hot ’n Juicy Cheeseburgers line, Wendy’s will add a mid-price line of cheeseburgers dubbed “The W” by year-end. Acknowledging that consumer spending continues to be sluggish, the new line will be priced at $2.99, below Dave’s $4-and-up prices, and above its My 99¢ Everyday Value Menu [...]

A year ago, BurgerBusiness.com forecast that 2011 would be The Year of the Stuffed Burger. Nope, didn’t happen. I’d have been closer had I just extended 2010’s Year of the Patty Melt designation for another year (see, for example the new Bacon Patty Melt at Johnnie Rockets). A prediction that 2011 would be the Year [...]

Last year Burger King exported its multi-serving NY Pizza Burger from its Whopper Bar in New York City’s Times Square to Japan, where the giant was sold as a Christmas holiday specialty. The novelty burger was enough of a hit that Burger King is reviving the “super size” holiday promotion in Japan. This time Burger King announced it [...]

Burger King is again testing consumer interest in multi-person bundled meals. As part of the revamped kids meal program, now called BK Crown, that it unveiled today, the chain has created an interesting LTO. The new $9.99 BK Family Bundle meal—on offer only through Dec. 4, 2011—packages food for parents and a child: one Whopper, one [...]

New York City-based food and restaurant consultants Baum & Whiteman are courageous enough to admit they were wrong last year in predicting that “gourmet” burgers’ popularity had peaked. But they’re foolish enough to make the same mistake again this year. The mea culpa is down there at No. 15 on the firm’s list of “16 [...]

[During RRGB's 11/3 quarterly analyst call, CEO Steve Carley acknowledged the impending Burger Works opening and called the concept a way to enter urban sites as well as colleges, airports, military bases, food courts and other nontraditional sites where a a full-size Red Robin cannot go.] The sluggish economy is pushing yet another casual-dining chain to [...]

Facing a daypart marketing problem, Sonic Corp. today should announce new LTOs for lunch and dinner that have a familiar name. The new offers are a pair of burgers on toast that aren’t exactly patty melts. The Bacon Cheddar Toaster Melt piles grilled onions, bacon, Cheddar cheese and hickory barbecue sauce on a beef patty and puts [...]