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Previously, the chips bar’s offerings were only available via food delivery apps. Aiming to reinvent the way potatoes are enjoyed, Chipsy has announced that it will set up its first site in London. The chips brand is expected to offer its signature fries with their fish-and-chips-inspired Poutine to Go Fish, vegan option Mex It Up, and other items that aims to elevate fries. Chipsy’s offerings are currently available via Uber Eats and Deliveroo.  

U.S. officials say Kim Jong Un may allow a ‘Western hamburger franchise’ in the reclusive state. The Press Herald stated that the North Korean leader will allow the brand into the country as a “show of goodwill” to the United States, according to an intelligence report described by U.S. officials to American media conglomerate NBC. This followed remarks by South Korean adviser Chung-in Moon last April who mentioned that North Korea might be interested in welcoming a McDonald’s as tensions ease.

Here is a summary of the most interesting QSR news stories of the week from around the world. Starbucks recently closed 8,000 stores for a day to conduct racial bias training to around 175,000 employees, following an incident in Philadelphia where two black men were arrested at a store while waiting for a friend because they did not order.

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The global chicken brand will also test a new vegetarian option this year. Looking to improve consumer choice, KFC UK and Ireland has announced its ambition to reduce 20% of calories in their offerings by the year 2025. KFC says that calorie reduction commitment is also the latest phase of their long-term nutrition strategy, focusing on creating “new, lighter” meals, crafting new recipes to improve existing dishes, and making it easier for consumer to choose such options. Later this year, the brand is set to launch a new vegetarian option, which will be tested with customers. They also intend to make changes to their sides by 2019, which will then by followed by more lunch and dinner dishes under 600 calories.

The ice cream equipment company was previously lauded by the global food giant in 2015. McDonald’s has given its Global Reliability Award to the Carpigiani Group for efforts in maintaining reliability of equipment components and manufacturing capabilities as one of their suppliers. “This company has a reputation for strongly recognizing the importance of reliability to McDonald’s and their customers. They have maintained their reliability scores under McDonald’s required threshold consistently for more than 7 years. Among all the complex pieces of equipment in the McDonald’s system, they are the only supplier to achieve such results,” McDonald’s Corporate Vice President of Restaurant Solutions Jim Fox said. Founded in 1946, Carpigiani was previously given McDonald’s Innovation Award in 2015 and is known for their artisan gelato programme.

10% of those interactions resulted in an order. Aiming to illustrate the potential of augmented reality (AR) in customer engagement and sales, Just Eat announced that its recent campaign that featured the said technology saw a total of 102,000 unique interactions, 10% of which resulted in an order.

The tax bands were implemented in response to rising number of overweight children in the UK.

The modern RSS site based its criteria on Google search rankings, content quality, and social media influence.

The purchased sandwich and coffee brand currently operates 530 stores worldwide.

This is in response to a growing list of such proposals by companies.

To what extent is traditional coffee being outperformed? Data from The NPD Group shows that in the year ending February 2018, the total out-of-home servings for specialty coffee are at a high 83% - indicating a huge opportunity for such in the coffee market despite flat coffee performance in the foodservice market.

The company will team up with entrepreneur Sarah Willingham for the programme.

Traditional grocery spend, meanwhile, decreased.

This is now the coffee brand’s seventh site in England.