Weekly Global News Wrap Up: Why going gourmet may be a mistake for coffee chains; Dunkin' Donuts target Starbucks-loving Millennials; KFC unveils fried chicken sunscreen

Here is a summary of the most interesting QSR news stories of the week from around the world.

The biggest trend in the coffee industry is going gourmet — but a new investigation reveals that may not be what most customers want. READ MORE HERE.
The coffee wars are heating up. Well, actually cooling down, to be technical, as Dunkin' Donuts looks to iced coffee to up it's cool factor among millennials who tend to gravitate to Starbucks. READ MORE HERE.
KFC is launching an unexpected new product: fried-chicken scented sunscreen. Starting Monday, the chicken chain is giving away 3,000 free bottles of Col. Sanders' Extra Crispy Sunscreen. US residents can receive the SPF 30 by visiting ExtraCrispySunscreen.com. READ MORE HERE.
Even "Pokemon" trainers have to eat, it seems. Down N' Out, a restaurant in Sydney, Australia, run by a group called Hashtag Burgers, has created three burgers inspired by the Nintendo game. READ MORE HERE.
As the app stores grow by thousands of apps each day and consumers' choices expand, many Fortune 1000 technology companies are turning to mobile performance campaigns in order to gain coveted space on consumers' smartphones and tablets, Opera Mediaworks observes today in its quarterly mobile marketing report. READ MORE HERE.
David Rubenstein may soon be the Big Mac, at least in China. His firm the Carlyle Group is one of the final bidders in an auction to buy McDonald’s Corp. restaurants in China for a price likely to be more than $2 billion, two sources said. READ MORE HERE.
It seems that Starbucks can put as much ice as it wants in your beverage. A judge in California dismissed a case that accused the coffee chain of under-filling its iced drinks, saying the plaintiff had "not alleged any viable claims" against the company. READ MORE HERE.
Domino’s Pizza Enterprises—an international franchiser of the Domino’s Pizza brand—conducted a demonstration of pizza delivery by drone in Auckland, New Zealand as it stated its intent to be the world’s first company to launch regular drone delivery. READ MORE HERE.

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