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Popeyes adds nuggets to its menu, looks to build on smash hit chicken sandwich

Popeyes (QSR) is adding chicken nuggets to its menu, using the same recipe as the hotly-coveted chicken sandwich that’s been a runaway hit for the restaurant chain. The addition of the white meat chicken nuggets, with options ranging from 4 piece to 36 pieces, are set to hit menus beginning July 27 in the U.S., Canada and Puerto Rico.  The fast food giant is hopeful this launch will match the reception that greeted its fried chicken sandwich back in August of 2019.  That menu item sparked the… Source link

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Beyond Meat looks to revolutionize chicken nuggets

If Beyond Meat could get people quickly ordering its newest innovation, perhaps the chicken shortage plaguing restaurants may ease by the year 2023.  On Thursday, the plant-based food company led Ethan Brown took the wraps off its new breaded chicken tenders. The tendies — as one would surmise from Beyond Meat — are plant-based, with the starring ingredient giving it a chicken flavor being the fava bean.  Beyond Meat (BYND) is no stranger to the faux chicken game. At one-time it sold… Source link

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Nearly 8.5 million pounds of Tyson chicken recalled due to Listeria concerns

Tyson Food Inc. is recalling nearly 8.5 million pounds of chicken products that may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes, according to a press release on Saturday by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service. Food Safety and Inspection Service was notified in June of two people who were sick with listeriosis, an infection caused by Listeria monocytogenes, according to the release. An investigation, which identified three cases of the illness between… Source link

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Chicken Soup for the Bitcoin Soul

Some sensible advice from Tim Draper, Brock Pierce, and other crypto leaders. It’s a great week for Bitcoin enthusiasts living in El Salvador. For the rest of us, the week has been “meh” at best. According to a tweet by Documenting Bitcoin, El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele has promised to deliver $30 in Bitcoin to each registered El Salvador citizen, adding “The wallet app will work anywhere with a cell connection, and you won’t have to have a cell plan to use the app.”

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Chili’s jumps into chicken fray, boasts sandwich that will ‘shame’ competition

The New York Times Seminary Built on Slavery and Jim Crow Labor Has Begun Paying Reparations One night in 1858, Carter Dowling, an enslaved Black man forced to work without pay at the Virginia Theological Seminary in Northern Virginia, made the brave decision to escape. He made it to Philadelphia, where he met famed abolitionist William Still. He then continued north to Canada and, after the Civil War, returned to Washington, D.C., where he was able to open a bank account for his children. He… Source link

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Prepare to pay more for your favorite chicken sandwich

Bloomberg Asia Is Exception as Emerging Markets Start to Look Fragile (Bloomberg) — EXAMPLEDiscover what’s driving the global economy and what it means for policy makers, businesses, investors and you with The New Economy Daily. Sign up here.In the pandemic’s second year, some familiar worries — about inflation, capital flight or public debt — are starting to surface across the developing world. Except in one corner.In Asia, policy makers aren’t too preoccupied with these classic… Source link

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Why people are obsessed with chicken sandwiches: Wendy’s CEO

The chicken sandwich wars are in full swing across the country. And that definitely doesn’t come as a shock to Wendy’s CEO Todd Penegor.  “It’s easy, quick to make. You can serve it fresh and hot and you can do some unique builds along the way,” Penegor told Yahoo Finance Presents on why the fast-food industry is in love with selling new chicken sandwiches going on more than a year.  To be sure, the resounding success Popeye’s had with its fried chicken sandwich in late 2019 and in 2020 sent… Source link

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Burger King, Wendys ramp up the competition in the chicken sandwich wars

Burger King (QSR) on Wednesday jumped into the widening chicken wars with a new hand-breaded sandwich — just as McDonald’s is expected to debut its own version, and on the same day Wendy’s rolled out an update to its menu item. The battlefield for the hearts and stomachs of consumers is growing more fierce, with a clutch of fast food giants unveiling competitors for Popeye’s wildly popular sandwich. As a result, Burger King is planning to release the item nationwide later this year, after a… Source link

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KFC launches game console with built-in chicken warmer

TipRanks 3 Monster Growth Stocks That Can Charge Forward in 2021 With 2020 winding down, there’s a growing belief that 2021 is going to be a growth year for the stock markets. The US elections have returned a divided government, one unlikely to have the broad majorities – or the broad support – needed to enact wide-ranging reform legislation from either the right or left, and that bodes well for the economy generally.The COVID vaccines are entering distribution, and while new anti-virus… Source link

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