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9 years ago

EXCLUSIVE: SOCIAL MEDIA WRAP UP - Costa's Baby Royal Tribute, Celebrity Spottings at Chipotle and Esquires and Starbuck's Trials Cold Brew Coffee

Here's what the QSRs have been up to on social media this week.

NEW ON THE MENU

Papa John’s brought back American Hot pizzas

Benito’s Hat began selling a ½ pound lamb barbacoa burrito

Costa Coffee launched their newest limited roast- Paradise Street no. 7

Tossed added a strawberry, kiwi fruit and apple juice to their menu

Boston Tea Party launched a new menu

Itsu announced they’d be adding baby maki rolls to their menu and launched a new quinoa salad

Lola’s Cupcakes added a vegan wheat free chocolate cake to their menu

Hummingbird Bakery added chocolate orange cupcakes to their menu for May, trialled mini-pies and announced their salted caramel cupcakes would become a permanent addition to their menu

Starbucks added cold brew coffee to their menu in a limited number of London outlets

Shakeaway launched a new spring menu of shakes made with fat free frozen yoghurt

Vital Ingredient added breakfast platters to their offering

Tortilla added nachos and chicken burritos to their evening menu

Baskin-Robbins announced ‘candy carnivale’ as their flavour of the month

Domino’s launched extra larger dipper pots

McDonald’s launched their Tastes of America menu

PROMOTIONS

Costa Coffee gave away free babyccinos to celebrate the royal birth

Vital Ingredient gave away 400 salads to mark the opening of their new store in Victoria Station, London, and gave away 5 flatbreads to 10 winners

Wrap it Up! gave 20% off orders

Chop and Wok gave away 2 meals

Ekachai gave away a meal for 2

Chop & Wok ran a competition to give away two free meals for customers who posted tripadvisor reviews

Pure ran a bike naming competition to give away a lunch delivery worth £50

Costa Coffee ran a competition giving away a night at a boutique hotel

Shakeaway gave away shake samples in Ipswich

Boost Juice gave away strawberry squeezes to celebrate the royal birth

Costa Coffee gave away pillows

Subway gave away tickets to a Liverpool football match

Tortilla gave away a meal for 2

Snog have away pink commemorative spoons to celebrate the new royal baby

Youmesushi gave away spicy tuna uramaki with orders over £20

Yoomoo Frozen Yoghurt ran a competition to give away a trip to New York

Yo! Sushi gave away dishes from their new menu

Pho offered 2-4-1 on kids meals at their Brighton store

Big Fernand gave groups of four a free bottle of wine with their dinner

Tossed gave away a variety of goodies to celebrate their 10th birthday including passionista smoothies and Portlebay popcorn

Pizza Hut launched a £15 Spring saver menu

Wrap it Up! offered delivery on orders for more than 8 wraps

McDonald’s gave away apple and fruit bags with happy meal purchases

Papa John’s offered 50% off for twitter users who posted their ‘Campaign for Better Pizza’ hashtag on their feeds and included national pizza chains in their quality pledge in Oxford

Muffin Break gave away free coffee

Itsu offered free food to celebrate the imminent opening of their Fleet Street store

GBK asked for volunteers to test out their new Leamington Spa branch prior to its opening

BRAND AND STORE UPDATES

Wrap it Up! announced they’d be opening stores in Green Park, Victoria and Holborn on May 5th

Five Guys announced their latest store would be opening on Villiers St

Jeremy Renner was spotted in a Chipotle and Boris Johnson in an Esquires Coffee

Lola’s Cupcakes gave away free cupcakes between 11-2pm to celebrate the opening of their new store at Canary Wharf

Taco Bell announced their sixth store would be opening in Chelmsford

Hummingbird Bakery celebrated its 11th birthday

Nando’s Aintree opened

Pret a Manger announced they’d raised £1.5 mill and donated 3 mill sandwiches to homeless charities in the past year

Boost Juice announced their newest stores would be opening in Arndale, Manchester and West Quay, Southampton

Five Guys opened in Villiers St, London

Krispy Kreme re-launched their website while launching a ‘click and collect’ service

Pizza Pilgrims opened in Peckham

Benito’s Hat announced a new site in Liverpool St, London

Caffe Nero announced their Barista of the Year 2015 winner

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