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Taco Bell Held An E3-Like Event And It Was Weird
9.2.2024
Hello everyone. Welcome to Friday. You made it to the end of the week. Congrats. I have a treat for you all: Taco Bell’s 2024 Live Mas Event. What’s that? It’s basically a Taco Bell mini-E3 complete with musical acts, announcements, and all the cringey moments you crave from something like this....
The Absolute Best Fast-Food Movie Tie-Ins
1.2.2024
Remember fast-food kids meals with specially marketed pop culture toys? They just don’t make ‘em like they used to. In the 1990s, Taco Bell, KFC, Pizza Hut, McDonald’s, and Burger King often chose chaos with their tie-ins, like the Batman Forever glass mugs or the Hercules plates. Heck, even when...
AIs and fries: Wendy’s to trial chatbot drive-thru operator
10.5.2023
Wendy’s says its "FreshAI" bot reduces costs allowing funds to be focused elsewhere, others worry that eventually, those less skilled will be jobless
Taco tokens: Chipotle adds crypto payments via Flexa
2.6.2022
Nearly 3,000 Chipotle restaurants across the U.S. will accept 98 cryptocurrencies as the Mexican-style fast food chain partners with Flexa to support crypto payments
A Project Called Fries DAO Raises $5.4 Million to Purchase Fast-Food Restaurants
1.3.2022
The concept of leveraging a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) has become very popular these days, as a myriad of DAO ideas have been created. A new DAO dedicated to purchasing fast-food restaurants called Fries DAO has raised more than $5.4 million to achieve the goal. Fries DAO Creators...
McDonald’s Trademark Filings Hint at Fast Food Giant’s Intent to Produce Metaverse Restaurants
11.2.2022
Following a slew of well known brands filing trademarks for metaverse related products and virtual goods, the American fast food firm founded in 1940, McDonald’s, has filed for ten trademark applications that describe plans to offer virtual restaurants and other digital-based products....
A Man Wearing A Sonic Mask Tried To Rob A Bank In Florida
6.2.2022
On February 2, local police were dispatched in response to an attempted bank robbery in DeLand, Florida. According to witnesses on the scene, the man entered the bank wearing a Sonic the Hedgehog mask and wielding a large hammer. Read more
Japanese Fast Food Chain Giving Away Half-Assed "Chocolate Burgers" For Valentine's Day
4.2.2022
Ah, yes. It’s that time of year again. Time for eateries in Japan to slather things with chocolate in the name of Valentine’s Day, commerce, and science. Last year, we got chocolate ramen. And this year? Japanese fast food chain Lotteria has what it’s calling a choko baagaa (チョコバーガー) or chocolate...
Jack in the Box claims in court FTX US ripped off its character to create 'Moon Man'
5.11.2021
The filing shows FTX refused to stop using its mascot, claiming “Jack in the Box has only narrow protection limited to the behatted ping pong‐headed clown who exploded out of a box to sell burgers.”
Burger King Japan Is Selling Beef Patties, No Buns
28.10.2021
Who needs buns? I kind of do! But maybe you don’t. And if you live in Japan, you can get your butt to Burger King and order yourself a beef patty on what looks like a piece of paper. Mmmmmm paper.Read more
Beijing Presses Fast-Food Chain McDonald’s to Support Digital Yuan — China’s CBDC Expected to Launch in February
24.10.2021
According to a recent report, Beijing is pressing the fast-food retail chain McDonald’s to support the digital yuan before the Winter Olympics in China scheduled for February 2022. The report notes that China is also pushing companies like Visa and Nike to join in on the central bank digital...
I Hate Myself, But I Love Taco Bell's New Chicken Sandwich Taco
26.9.2021
Taco Bell has a new chicken sandwich that’s also a taco, but is also not a taco or even really a sandwich. It’s weird. Yet, even weirder than all that is that I.. like it? Read more
Far Cry Needs More Sausage Rolls
28.6.2021
I know Watch Dogs just had a game set in London, but it had made-up store names. If Ubisoft are going to do British video games, they need to do it right.Read more
KFC And Anime Kaguya-sama Keep Flirting On Twitter
25.6.2021
In Japan, Kentucky Fried Chicken is a cultural institution. People not only love it but the Colonel’s chicken has been linked with Christmas for decades. And KFC, it seems, likes anime Kaguya-sama.Read more
Mark Bittman Explains Why the Next 100 Years of Food Will Have to Be Radically Different
10.2.2021
Mark Bittman is most famous for the 30,000 recipes he’s developed in decades of being a food journalist and authoring 30 books focused on cooking and eating. But this month’s Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food from Sustainable to Suicidal is not another recipe book, it’s a deeply researched...
That's A Good Lookin' Burger
7.2.2021
Resident Evil 2 is a good looking video game, so it shouldn’t be too surprising that it contains a damn fine looking’ burger. I want to eat it. Give me that greasy, gooey cheeseburger. Read more
Boston Market enters the fried chicken sandwich wars, might want to rethink that decision
27.1.2021
The other day we learned that Boston Market is making a comeback and is on pace to open two new locations per week in 2021. Along with that interesting bit of information, we also learned that it would be joining the fried chicken sandwich brawl by releasing a Nashville-style hot chicken sandwich...
Limited Time Taco Bell Hotel Reservations Sell Out In Two Minutes
28.6.2019
Over the years, plenty of the leading brands in the world have started initiatives that are meant to create much greater levels of interaction with the customers. However, when it comes to consumer-facing businesses like fast food restaurants, then it is a far more important tactic and one that...