Arby’s New Chicago-Style Italian Beef Dip Is Getting Strong Reactions
https://www.eatthis.com/arbys-brings-chicago-style-italian-beef-dip-to-menus-nationwide/
#Restaurants #Arby's #RestaurantChains
Arby’s New Chicago-Style Italian Beef Dip Is Getting Strong Reactions
https://www.eatthis.com/arbys-brings-chicago-style-italian-beef-dip-to-menus-nationwide/
#Restaurants #Arby's #RestaurantChains
"How Google Maps quietly allocates survival across London’s restaurants - and how I built a dashboard to see through it"
https://laurenleek.substack.com/p/how-google-maps-quietly-allocates?utm_campaign=post
#googlemaps #restaurants #london
Asian private equity firm Longreach Group is considering selling its majority stake in the hamburger chain Wendy’s First Kitchen in Japan, people familiar with the matter have said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/12/16/companies/private-equity-wendys-japan-sale/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #longreachgroup #wendys #restaurants #investments
"How Google Maps quietly allocates survival across London’s restaurants - and how I built a dashboard to see through it"
https://laurenleek.substack.com/p/how-google-maps-quietly-allocates?utm_campaign=post
#googlemaps #restaurants #london
Japanese curry restaurant chain operator Ichibanya aims to expand its Curry House CoCo Ichibanya, or CoCo Ichi, restaurant network across India. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/12/08/companies/japan-coco-ichi-india/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #cocoichi #ichibanya #restaurants #india
Farm-raised oysters in the Seto Inland Sea in western Japan are dying en masse, leaving restaurants and retailers feeling uneasy as the high season for oyster dishes has arrived. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/03/japan/oyster-shortage/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #oysters #food #fishing #supermarkets #restaurants #oceans
Takashi Ito, owner of a restaurant in Shanghai, had been looking forward to China's lifting of a ban on imports of Japanese seafood — only to have his hopes dashed this week amid an increasingly heated diplomatic spat. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/20/japan/japanese-restaurant-owners-china-tensions/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #chinajapanrelations #restaurants
After redesigning menus, offering items with vegetable toppings and expanding combo sets to enhance value without sacrificing margins, Yoshinoya’s China business is now on track to report a record profit. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/11/13/companies/yoshinoya-china-strategy/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #yoshinoya #restaurants #china #tetsuyanaruse
An interesting piece on how London restaurants are changing, from #Ottolenghi.
Cost is one aspect.
"utility costs are up more than 50% since 2019; chocolate prices have doubled; olive oil is up 121%; even spring onions are up 55% – spring onions! Meanwhile, customers are feeling the squeeze just as hard: 52% of UK consumers have cut non-essential spending, with 72% of those naming “eating out” as one of their cuts. "
Places are simplifying to cut costs, and he talks about the rise in rotisserie chicken shops.
Also, people's habits are changing.
"people’s working patterns, health obsessions, the falling out of love with alcohol and the falling in love with pastries and bread, but, predominantly, the affordability of it all."
The response from restaurants has varied from minimalisation to extreme exclusivity.
And many community-based, immigrant-led eating/feeding places hold the key....
An interesting piece on how London restaurants are changing, from #Ottolenghi.
Cost is one aspect.
"utility costs are up more than 50% since 2019; chocolate prices have doubled; olive oil is up 121%; even spring onions are up 55% – spring onions! Meanwhile, customers are feeling the squeeze just as hard: 52% of UK consumers have cut non-essential spending, with 72% of those naming “eating out” as one of their cuts. "
Places are simplifying to cut costs, and he talks about the rise in rotisserie chicken shops.
Also, people's habits are changing.
"people’s working patterns, health obsessions, the falling out of love with alcohol and the falling in love with pastries and bread, but, predominantly, the affordability of it all."
The response from restaurants has varied from minimalisation to extreme exclusivity.
And many community-based, immigrant-led eating/feeding places hold the key....
> Shake Shack wants you to shit yourself to death
https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/27/shit-shack/#binding-arbitration by @pluralistic
Not just Shake Shack. This is on the trend of companies, including #FastFood, to force app users into arbitration if shit happens, depriving you of your rights to seek redress in courts. It is #corruption and #fuckery pure and simple.
> Shake Shack wants you to shit yourself to death
https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/27/shit-shack/#binding-arbitration by @pluralistic
Not just Shake Shack. This is on the trend of companies, including #FastFood, to force app users into arbitration if shit happens, depriving you of your rights to seek redress in courts. It is #corruption and #fuckery pure and simple.
Japan will be the most impacted by a global tourist-service labor shortfall, according to a new report, with a 29% gap forecast in the country in 2035. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/10/10/toursim-labor-shortage/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tourism #foreignworkers #hotels #restaurants
Ever eaten a helium balloon? Grant Achatz’s Tokyo residency promises edible surprises and immersive culinary theater. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2025/10/04/food-drink/achatz-tokyo-alinea-modernist/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #life #fooddrink #finedining #chefs #tokyo #restaurants #meat #vegetables
