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Report: Boston Market Is
Down to Just 16 US Locations

Dec 19, 2024 5:55 PM CST

Report: Boston Market Is Down to Just 16 US Locations

But a new 'flagship' has opened in India

(Newser) - Boston Market, a fast-casual chain known for its rotisserie chickens, is rapidly disappearing from the landscape. Restaurant Business reports that the chain, which boomed in the mid-1990s, is now down to just 16 locations from a peak of more than 1,200. The chain still had around 300 locations at...

Fast Food's
New Trend:
'Stealth Health'

Jun 24, 2014 1:20 PM CDT

Fast Food's New Trend: 'Stealth Health'

Companies don't always tell us when our food gets healthier

(Newser) - In the minds of customers, healthy food often means less-tasty food. At the same time, however, many clamor for healthier options. All this puts restaurants and food makers in a bind—and the solution, the Wall Street Journal reports, is "stealth health." This refers to companies secretly improving...

Inside Mitt's
Post-Election
Life: Ann's Tears,
Boston Market

Dec 2, 2012 11:32 AM CST

Inside Mitt's Post-Election Life: Ann's Tears, Boston Market

Insiders say he's not bitter, but trying to find purpose

(Newser) - There are no bourbon-fueled benders, beards, or pity parties for the man who four weeks ago lost the White House, but Mitt Romney wakes up each day deprived perhaps for the first time in his life of any real sense of purpose, reports the Washington Post in a lengthy look...

Fast Food Worse Than
the Double Down

Fast Food Worse Than the Double Down

Nate Silver finds the KFC monstrosity is really only average

(Newser) - So by now you've heard of—or God help you, sampled—the gluttonous monstrosity known as KFC's Double Down , but how does it stack up in the less-than-healthy world of fast food? Nate Silver at FiveThirtyEight runs the numbers, creating an index of fat, cholesterol, and sodium in which the...

Tough Times
Push Chains to
Try New Fare

May 27, 2009 10:00 AM CDT

Tough Times Push Chains to Try New Fare

McDonald's classy coffee, grilled KFC widen menus

(Newser) - Desperate times are driving chain restaurants to desperate measures—straying from their bread-and-butter dishes and diversifying the menu. KFC now sells grilled chicken, Domino’s offers subs, and McDonald’s dips into the world of espresso coffee, USA Today reports. “This is a defining moment for the industry,"...

Consumer
Data Breaches
Hit Record

Aug 26, 2008 9:10 AM CDT

Consumer Data Breaches Hit Record

Thefts, losses of confidential info has already topped 2007

(Newser) - Theft or loss of confidential consumer information from computer databases is at a record high, with more breaches already this year than all of 2007, the Washington Post reports. Records reveal that 449 US businesses, government agencies and universities have reported data breaches this year, compared with 446 breaches involving...

Feds Nab
11 Cybercrime Masterminds

Aug 5, 2008 3:49 PM CDT

Feds Nab 11 Cybercrime Masterminds

40 million credit and debit card numbers stolen across US

(Newser) - An international crew of hackers who reportedly stole more than 40 million credit and debit card numbers from nine US companies were indicted today in what Attorney General Michael Mukasey is calling "the single largest and most complex identity theft case that's ever charged in this country." The...