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

• Andy Puzder, CEO of CKE Restaurants, the parent company of Carl's Jr. and Hardee's, announced his support for the Donald Trump presidency. Business Insider reports that Puzder published an article titled "Why Trump" in Real Clear Politics on Monday, presenting a case for the election of Donald Trump. READ MORE HERE

• Fox News Magazine reports that Arby's new Venison Sandwich has outperformed expectations. The brand ran out of the Venison Sandwich at the four Minnesota stores it was being offered in, with some of the outlets selling out in just 15 minutes. READ MORE HERE

• According to an article by Bloomberg, fast-food chains are realizing that even as they shell out millions to purge preservatives and artificial ingredients from their menus, health-conscious customers are still not buying their products. READ MORE HERE

• In an article by news.com.au, anonymous employees from fast food restaurants revealed kitchen secrets and warned what foods to steer clear of when ordering fast food. READ MORE HERE

• McDonald's announced that it is preparing to sue Florence after the city banned it from opening a restaurant in a historic square there, according to an article by The Sun. The fast food giant revealed that it was demanding more than £16million in damages after authorities rejected an application to open an outlet in the Piazza del Duomo. READ MORE HERE

• According to an article by Metro, in Italy, McDonald's introduced the ‘Sweety con Nutella’, essentially a signature McDonald's burger spread with bountiful amounts of Nutella. READ MORE HERE

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• One in six South Korean teenagers eat fast food more than three times a week, according to research covered by the Korea Herald. According to a survey by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 16.7 percent of students aged 13-18 regularly consume fast food such as hamburgers, pizzas and chicken. READ MORE HERE

• Science Daily reported on a new study that suggests that an ability to delay immediate gratification is associated with less frequent consumption of fast food. The study, which appears early online in Preventive Medicine has public health significance since away-from-home eating, and fast food consumption in particular, contribute to obesity in the United States. READ MORE HERE

• McDonald's is finally gearing up to launch mobile order-and-pay technology, meaning customers will be able to order and pay for their food from their smartphones, the fast food company told Business Insider. READ MORE HERE

• According to an article by BBC, fast-food chains and restaurants are experiencing a surge in sales as Brits spend more than ever on restaurant food. A new survey tracking spending on cards showed that consumer spending across the board has remained relatively firm since the UK voted to leave the EU, but the amount spent on dining is rising faster than other categories. READ MORE HERE

• Business Insider reported that Chipotle opened the first location of its new burger concept, Tasty Made. The new eatery launched in Lancaster, Ohio, serving four items: burgers, fries, shakes, and sodas. READ MORE HERE

• Russian chef Igor Panteleyev has created a hot wrap recipe in honor of each U.S. presidential candidate, putting them on the menu at Roll's Race Kafe, a small chain of fast-food eateries in Moscow where he is chief cook, the Washington Post reported. READ MORE HERE

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• The Daily Mail wrote an article about the surprising foods vegans can order at McDonald's and Burger King. McDonald's hash brown doesn't contain any animal products, such as egg, and apple pies at McDonald's and Burger King are technically safe for vegans but they both could be fried in oil that has touched chicken or fish. READ MORE HERE

• The Wall Street Journal interviewed Yum CEO Greg Creed and talks about how KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell try to stay relevant as consumer tastes shift. READ MORE HERE

• Atlanta-based Arby's Restaurant Group Inc. has begun serving venison at one location in Atlanta, according to a report by The Atlanta Business Chronicle. The Venison Sandwich will soon be offered at 17 Arby's restaurants across America, in the states of Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and Georgia. READ MORE HERE

• Fast food companies are stepping up for its employees despite Senate Republicans' refusal to give America's lowest-wage earners a raise, taking it upon themselves to boost pay, according to a report by Business Insider. READ MORE HERE

• According to a report by the Sydney Morning Herald, McDonald's successful turnaround has not paved the way for more customers to visit its restaurants. READ MORE HERE

• In a study covered by Lifehacker Australia, researchers found that more than 40% of menu items being marketed using 'healthy' claims may not have complied with the requirements of the Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code. These foods did not meet the qualifying criteria set out in the code, meaning consumers could believe these foods are healthier than they actually are. READ MORE HERE

• Nutritionist Rhiannon Lambert in an article covered by the Daily Mail, analysed menus at six fast food restaurants and found the burger that is one of the healthiest options at McDonald's and Five Guys. At KFC, she says diners can still enjoy popcorn chicken if they're on a diet and there are plenty of healthy options at Nando's, including butterfly chicken. READ MORE HERE

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• According to the Chicago Tribune, Domino's Pizza posted a jump in sales in the last quarter, even as other fast-food companies in the US blamed weaker-than-expected growth on cheaper groceries, political uncertainty and other factors. READ MORE HERE

• Dunkin' Brands Group, after placing significant focus on rolling out and marketing innovative new coffees and other beverages, clarified that it will not stop selling fast food, as reported by The Street. READ MORE HERE

• According to a report by iNews, one large fast food chain has become so popular among children in Scotland that it provided more than a third of meals served to under-12s in Scotland last year as found by recent research. READ MORE HERE

• Calorie labels on fast food menus will do nothing to improve diets, a new study covered by the Daily Mail showed. Only eight per cent of people will make healthy choices as a result of the scheme, scientists claim. READ MORE HERE

• Fast-food chains like KFC and Arby's are following in Chik-Fil-A's footsteps in customer service, and it's paying off in a big way, reports Business Insider Australia. READ MORE HERE

• Yum Brands Inc said it can triple the number of restaurants in its China division, according to an article by Reuters, even as it is being spun off into a separate business. READ MORE HERE

• Business Insider made a timeline below to highlight some of the most crucial moments in the history of McDonald's, covering the good, the bad, and the burgers from the rise of the Golden Arches to the triumph of all-day breakfast. READ MORE HERE

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• Domino's is testing out a novel way to deliver its pizza. Residents along the River Loose in the UK will be able to have their pizzas by canoe, delivered to their doors with delivery ‘buoys’, according to an article by the Sun. READ MORE HERE

• A story by CTV News reported that passengers travelling on India's railways can now improve their trip by having fast food delivered to them using various food delivery mobile apps. READ MORE HERE

• In a survey by Hart Research, covered by Business Insider, data showed that forty percent of women working in the fast-food industry have been sexually harassed at work. READ MORE HERE

• An article on the NASDAQ website covered a recent study of fast food drive-thrus. The research found that Starbucks, the world's largest coffee retailer, takes the longest time to serve a customer. READ MORE HERE

• As "creepy clown" sightings continue to scare US locals, McDonald's announced that it will be hiding away its mascot Ronald McDonald, according to an article by CNBC. READ MORE HERE

• Children who order a combination meal at fast-food restaurants are more likely to get a sugary drink that ups the meal's total calories, according to a new study covered by Reuters. READ MORE HERE

• Business Insider Nordic reported on a new survey by Piper Jaffray ranking the most popular restaurants among upper-income teens. READ MORE HERE

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• The Sydney Morning Herald reports that fast-food giants are forgoing CBD leases in favor of seeking out larger premises in the suburbs to entice patrons to linger longer. READ MORE HERE

• Fast food chains could soon offer veggie burgers that are indistinguishable from beef, according to a story by Business Insider. Startups like Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods are coming out with plant-based burgers that taste so similar to beef that fast food chains may soon offer virtually indistinguishable vegetarian versions of their beef burgers. READ MORE HERE

• According to BBC News, Yum Brands saw a disappointing quarterly results in its China business just before it is split into a separate company. Sales in the country slipped were seen as partly due to protests against western restaurant brands. READ MORE HERE

• CNBC reports that studies have found that fast food drive thrus are slowing down, as the average service speed has slowed to 226.3 seconds, up from 221.9 seconds a year ago and 203.3 seconds two years ago as restaurants serve more complicated dishes. READ MORE HERE

• Business Insider found a new drive-thru salad bar gaining popularity in the US for its affordable, healthy, and fast food. READ MORE HERE

• According to a report by TIME, McDonald’s employees from multiple locations across the US have filed 15 federal complaints against the fast food giant with the Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), alleging incidents of sexual harassment. READ MORE HERE

• A new survey of children's and teenagers' eating habits at fast-food restaurants reported by Science Daily suggests that consumption levels of sugary drinks are closely tied to their automatic inclusion in "combo meal" packages. READ MORE HERE

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• Fast food chains like Subway to McDonald's are cutting down on preservatives and artificial ingredients to conform to the US Food and Drug Administration's redefinition of the term "healthy" on food packaging, according to a story by Business Insider. READ MORE HERE

• A new survey concerned with the eating habits of young people found that one in six young people eat fast food twice a day, as covered by an article by BBC. READ MORE HERE

• According to an article by Bloomberg, Panera Bread Co. is ratcheting up the restaurant industry’s race to purify ingredients, aiming to become the first chain to serve "clean bacon". The company is working with suppliers to remove artificial nitrates and preservatives from the bacon it uses on sandwiches and salads at its roughly 2,000 cafes. READ MORE HERE

• A fast food chain is introducing "brunchfast", a new meal that combines fast-food breakfast with brunch. According to a story by Yahoo! News, Jack In The Box is rolling out a new brunchfast menu in a bid to "push the envelope" regarding breakfast in the fast food space. READ MORE HERE

• Adweek published an article analysing the new trend of fast food chains getting makeovers. With the rise of fast-casual competitors like Shake Shack and Panera Bread, legacy fast-food chains like KFC, Arby's and Taco Bell are now sprucing up their decor. READ MORE HERE

• The Washington Post attempted to get to the bottom of the sudden prominence of "headline-grabbing" fast food items. Fast-food chains are making ‘increasingly outrageous’ creations in an effort to get more customers through the door. READ MORE HERE

• Shares of the fast food chain Sonic fell after the brand issued profit expectations that were short of Wall Street projections, according to an article by FOX News. READ MORE HERE

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• The founder and co-CEO of the troubled Mexican food chain Chipotle stepped in front of a camera to offer an unusual mea culpa on camera, according to an article by Fortune. Steve Ells admitted that his fast-casual restaurant chain “failed to live up to our own food safety standards” last year. READ MORE HERE

• According to the Evening Standard, hundreds of Londoners queued for hours to get their hands on an In-N-Out burger on the 21st September. The American chain hosted a four-hour pop-up at a Brazilian restaurant in Swiss Cottage, and quickly attracted a crowd despite news of the venture only being advertised through a small, black and white advert in a local paper. READ MORE HERE

• Restaurants are now testing a broader array of flavors and quality ingredients. In a research note Monday covered by CNBC, a handful of chains, including McDonald’s and Wendy’s, have been testing more upscale items. READ MORE HERE

• Burger King announced a creative, new menu item with the introduction of Cheetos Chicken Fries, according to an article by USA Today. On Wednesday, Sept. 14, Cheetos Chicken Fries will be available to the masses at participating Burger King restaurants. READ MORE HERE

• Some of the most popular fast food chains in America have yet to seriously address antibiotic use, according to a new report covered by Fortune. A consortium of consumer and food safety groups compiled the analysis and found that major chains like Burger King, Dunkin’ Donuts, KFC, and Starbucks failed to meet industry standards when it comes to their current antibiotic practices for poultry, beef, and pork. READ MORE HERE

• Vegetables are now the hottest trend in the fast-food industry, according to an article by Business Insider. Vegetables are exploding in popularity among the menus of fast-food and fast-casual chains, from Taco Bell to new vegan concepts like By Chloe. READ MORE HERE

• McDonald’s will begin testing a breakfast Happy Meal, allowing for the possibility of the all-day breakfast offering to be rolled out by next year, USA Today reported. READ MORE HERE

• Rapidly growing multinational fast food chains in India are the largest contributors to hydrofluorocarbons (HFC) emissions and could add the equivalent of nearly one million tonnes of carbon emissions by 2020, according to a new international study covered by India Today. READ MORE HERE
   

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• Chipotle is setting aside its problems and going on a hiring spree. The company, which has struggled in recent months with an E. coli outbreak and a lawsuit accusing it of mistreating workers, plans to offer jobs to 5,000 people across the country on Sept. 28, according to CNNMoney. READ MORE HERE.
   
• After building a successful coffee business in China, Starbucks is entering the country’s tea market to attract more Chinese consumers. The company announced on Monday that it will introduce the Teavana brand to more than 6,200 Starbucks stores across Asia Pacific, including China, with the goal of increasing its tea business to $3 billion over the next five years. READ MORE HERE.
   
• Fast-food giant McDonald's Corp has received final bids from at least three groups for its China and Hong Kong outlets, with global private equity firms Carlyle Group and TPG Capital separately teaming up with Chinese partners for the business worth up to $3 billion, sources told Reuters. READ MORE HERE.
   
• McDonald’s could face an order to pay nearly $500m in back taxes to Luxembourg, according to a Financial Times analysis of an investigation by Brussels into state-supported tax avoidance. READ MORE HERE.
   
• The lives of New York’s 65,000 fast food employees may soon be a little less hectic. Crain’s reports that Mayor Bill de Blasio plans to introduce a law that will force fast food restaurants to schedule shifts in advance, Eater reveals in a report. READ MORE HERE.
   
• According to VentureBeat, Domino’s is now letting hungry Americans order their favorite pie through Facebook Messenger—without conversing with a human. The pizza giant has launched a Facebook Messenger bot that promises “conversational” ordering through the messaging app. READ MORE HERE.
   
• When visiting a fast-food restaurant, “healthy options” was only the sixth-most important factor for fast-food consumers, according to Technomic’s 2015 Future of Limited Service Restaurants Consumer Trend Report. Customers place a far larger importance on other attributes, including variety, portability and portion sizes, when frequenting fast-food chains, shares Forbes. READ MORE HERE.
   
• CNBC reveals that Burger King has once again partnered with Cheetos to create a limited-time menu item. This time, Burger King is dusting its famous chicken fries with the orange cheese snack. READ MORE HERE.

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• McDonald’s is looking to revive its operations in China after its reputation took a beating in the region on the back of an expired meat scandal in 2014. The company is looking at the franchising model to grow in China; however, experts believe that partnering with players who understand the evolving Chinese market better might be the right way forward, according to Fortune. READ MORE HERE.
   
• Business Insider reveals that Starbucks will go down in history books as the brand that made it OK to charge more than $2 for a cup of coffee. But its reputation as a higher end coffee shop has faded—and that has the company worried. READ MORE HERE.
   
• KFC has unveiled yet another colonel, according to Fortune. This time the part is being played by Rob Riggle, the first person to take on the role who is actually a real-life colonel. Now he plays the “owner, head coach, and marketing director” of the Kentucky Buckets, a fake NFL team created by Yum Brands-owned KFC to promote the chain’s $20 Fill Ups. READ MORE HERE.
   
• Chipotle Mexican Grill has agreed to financial settlements with more than 100 customers who fell ill after eating at its restaurants last year, lawyers for the consumers said, as it attempts to move on from a string of food-safety problems, shares Reuters in a report. READ MORE HERE.
   
• Better-known for low-paid jobs than generous incentive packages, McDonald’s Corp. is facing a labor shortage so dire in Hungary that it’s offering free rooms to out-of-town burger flippers, according to Bloomberg. READ MORE HERE.
   
• According to Bloomberg, in what’s sure to be a college student’s dream come true, drones will soon be delivering burritos on the campus of Virginia Tech. The experimental service, to begin this month and last just a few weeks, is a test by Project Wing, a unit of Google’s parent company Alphabet Inc. Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. and the Blacksburg, Virginia, university have agreed to participate. READ MORE HERE.

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• CNN Money unveils in a report that Chipotle is being rocked by a class action lawsuit regarding "wage theft." Leah Turner, a former employee, claims she worked hundreds—maybe even thousands—of hours at Chipotle without getting paid. Her manager would tell her to "clock out" but continue working until all of her tasks were done, Turner says. So she would keep going, knowing that the extra hour—or two or even three—was free labor. READ MORE HERE.
   
• Salon reveals in a report that nearly 31 percent of millennials said that the reason they use the drive­thru isn’t speed or convenience, but because doing so requires the least amount of actual human interaction. READ MORE HERE.
   
• McDonald’s has long been famous for its small-owner-focused franchise system, in which entrepreneurs with only a store or two would sweat the details of their restaurants, yielding better customer service, according to Bloomberg. Lately, however, the fast-food giant has begun shedding mom and pop owners in favor of bigger operators. READ MORE HERE.

• The amount Australians spend on food from cafes, restaurants and takeaway shops hit a new record in July — $3.5 billion. That has doubled since just 2003. In that same time, the amount spent at supermarkets has less than doubled. What it means is Australia is eating fewer home-cooked meals, and more meals everywhere else, according to News.com.au. READ MORE HERE.

• Fast food, along with shipping warehouses, has become a hotbed for robots and other automated technology, according to Business Insider. McDonald’s has been testing ordering kiosks, Domino’s has numerous ways to place an order that do not involve talking with a human being, and Starbucks has used technology to shift employees away from order taking to put them into production. READ MORE HERE.
   
• CNBC reveals that American rapper Kanye West's apparently random Twitter proclamation that his favorite brand is McDonald's could be a great marketing moment for the fast food chain, whether they knew about the artist's passion for their burgers and fries or not. READ MORE HERE.
   
• Quartz shares that one of the most closely ­guarded food secrets in the world may have accidentally slipped to the public. Executives at Kentucky Fried Chicken insist the company’s signature 11­spice “Original Recipe” is still safely a secret, but there’s reason to believe that may not be the case. READ MORE HERE.
   
• It's the moment that all pumpkin spice fans have been waiting for: Starbucks has officially relaunched its famous Pumpkin Spice Latte. For the 13th year, the affectionately dubbed PSL has entered stores just ahead of the fall season, according to CNBC. READ MORE HERE.
   
• Chick­fil­A is testing a host of new menu items featuring ingredients like quinoa, farro, roasted butternut squash, and chia seeds in hopes of attracting more health-­conscious eaters. The chain is testing two grain bowls starting Tuesday: the Harvest Kale & Grain Bowl and the Egg White Grill Grain Bowl. It's also rolling out some new breakfast bowls featuring chicken, eggs, hash browns, and cheese, according to Yahoo! Finance. READ MORE HERE.

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• 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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• Business Insider reports that the fast-food industry has a growing threat: grocery stores. Grocery prices are dropping due to lower commodity costs, and people are eating at home more often as a result. READ MORE HERE.
   
• According to CNBC, America's fast-food and fast-casual burger chains number more than 45,000, so new entrants to the burger wars better stand out. Some are relying on a surprising recipe for success. It's not a secret ingredient so much as it is a key ingredient they are leaving out. READ MORE HERE.
   
• Burger King’s latest new item is taking a stab at Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc., which is still reeling from a string of foodborne illness outbreaks, Bloomberg reveals. READ MORE HERE.
   
• Time reveals in a report that McDonald’s is officially bringing its McCafe Pumpkin Spice Latte back on Aug. 31, giving PSL enthusiasts the chance to satisfy their fall coffee cravings earlier than ever. The fast food giant will be offering the cinnamon-y sweet beverage in stores nationwide for the first time in three years starting later this month. READ MORE HERE.
   
• As local appetites for bigger and better burgers grow, McDonald's is heeding the call by bringing its "premium" range of burgers in Singapore, according to Mashable. Three new burgers will start becoming available islandwide: classic cheese with Angus beef, spicy tortilla with angus beef, and spicy chicken with apple slaw. READ MORE HERE.
   
• According to Sydney Morning Herald, the percentage of Australians dining in the 5-6pm timeslot has jumped by 35 per cent in the past two years, according to a new industry analysis by restaurant reservation website Dimmi. READ MORE HERE.
   
• According to Investopedia, fast food chains are struggling in 2016 with company after company releasing worse-than-expected earnings each quarter and increasingly bizarre food options being introduced to woo customers. READ MORE HERE.

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• In other words, fast-food giants such as McDonald's, KFC, and Taco Bell have figured out how to offer the best of both worlds, drawing from fast-casuals' upscale aesthetics while undercutting their competitors' prices, shares Business Insider. READ MORE HERE.
   
• Deliveroo, a London-based maker of an app for ordering take out, announced Friday it has raised $275 million to fuel growth and take on well-funded competitors, according to Bloomberg. READ MORE HERE.
   
• Chick-fil-A gives its franchisees a huge perk if they meet sales goals: a new car. Franchisees who meet the goals get to select any Ford model to drive for free for one year, according to Business Insider. READ MORE HERE.
   
• Bloomberg reveals that Restaurant Brands International Inc., the owner of Burger King and Tim Hortons, reported second-quarter sales for both chains that trailed analysts’ estimates, lending credence to speculation that the fast-food industry is entering a slump. READ MORE HERE.
   
• It’s beginning to feel a lot like Christmas at Starbucks, according to a report by Fortune. The coffee chain’s Starbucks For Life promotion has been offered during the holiday season for the past two years, and this year it has decided to do a summer edition, bringing it back four months earlier than expected. READ MORE HERE.
   
• Domino's, for example, is the only chain in the Bloomberg Intelligence restaurant index, of those that have reported so far, to say sales growth accelerated in the second quarter, according to a report by Bloomberg. READ MORE HERE.
   

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•  Bloomberg reveals that McDonald’s Corp. is planning a sale of 20-year franchise rights in Malaysia and Singapore that could collectively fetch at least $400 million, people with knowledge of the matter said. Suitors for the fast-food operations in the two Southeast Asian markets have begun sounding out banks for financing, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the information is private. READ MORE HERE.

• Taco Bell is launching a test of a Cheetos burrito. The fast-food chain is adding the wild mashup to the menu in Cincinnati in mid-August, Taco Bell told Business Insider. READ MORE HERE.

• According to Business Insider, Starbucks baristas say that the company is cutting hours—and consumers are paying the price. Workers around the country are complaining that the chain's streamlined scheduling system is giving them fewer hours than they would normally receive, reports Venessa Wong at BuzzFeed Business. READ MORE HERE.

• Two years after Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) announced that it will sell more vegetarian burgers in India, it is looking back at chicken in a big way, according to Quartz. As competition in India’s burger market heats up, fast-food chains are returning to what they know best—in KFC’s case, tubs of fried chicken—leaving the vegetarian menu as it is, for now. READ MORE HERE.
   
• BBC shares that every day hundreds of thousands of Britons put their coffee cup into a recycling bin. They're wrong - those cups aren't recyclable, and the UK throws away 2.5bn of them a year. It must stop, writes Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall. READ MORE HERE.
   
• The Sydney Morning Herald reports that even at its peak, the customers of Eagle Boys Pizza were among the least loyal in the fast food game and ready to permanently abandon the chain, new data shows. In the year to March, nearly 5 million Australians over 14 years of age visited or ordered from a pizza chain in the past month, up very slightly on the figure five years ago, according to research firm Roy Morgan. READ MORE HERE.
   
• Chicken giant Nando's allegedly used private security guards to take over a restaurant as part of a war against its largest franchisee over expensive upgrades. The ugly fight has now landed in court, throwing the company into turmoil, with Nando's franchisees around the country refusing to bow to head office's authority and renovate their stores until the dispute is resolved, according to The Sydney Morning Herald. READ MORE HERE.
   
• Cockroaches, locusts and crickets were released into two Byron Hamburger restaurants in the UK as part of a protest against the chain’s role in an immigration swoop which saw dozens of its workers rounded up. READ MORE HERE.

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• McDonald's business model is under threat, Business Insider reveals in a report. Chains like McDonald's, Burger King, and Wendy's have long relied on cheap labor to keep menu prices low while still driving a healthy profit. But the days of cheap labor could soon be over, turning the entire business model on its head, according to Deutsche Bank analyst Brett Levy. READ MORE HERE.

• Business Insider reveals four secrets that’s put Domino's on track to have the best sales this quarter of any major restaurant chain in the US, after an incredible second quarter. READ MORE HERE.

• Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. posted second-quarter profit and sales that missed analysts’ estimates, a sign the burrito chain is still reeling from a food-safety crisis that drove away customers and tarnished its reputation. READ MORE HERE.

• According to the Financial Times, restaurants from Starbucks to KFC are struggling with America’s waning appetite for eating out. READ MORE HERE.

• CNBC reports that all-day breakfast isn't the only popular menu item at McDonald's. The Golden Arches, which amped up its french fries in four locations in San Francisco in late April, will now offer "Gilroy Garlic Fries" at 240 McDonald's restaurants in California. READ MORE HERE.

• Last fall, the parent of KFC, Pizza Hut, and Taco Bell announced plans to spin off its China business after a series of food safety scandals had dampened results in the company's biggest market. Oddly, a rebound in the China division has been a major reason for the stock's growth this year, recovering after a double-digit drop in comparable sales in 2015, according to the Motley Fool. READ MORE HERE.

• Papa John's has completed a major transition toward building a cleaner menu. As of July 1, the pizza chain has completed its transition to poultry raised without antibiotics and fed a vegetarian diet for grilled-chicken pizza toppings and chicken poppers, the company told Business Insider. READ MORE HERE.

• According to Bloomberg, McDonald’s Japanese business said it’s working with the developers of Pokemon Go as they bring the hit Nintendo Co. game to the country. The unit’s shares rose as much as 10 percent Thursday. READ MORE HERE.

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• According to CNBC, shares of Yum Brand rose as much as 5 percent on Thursday after improved results in China helped the company outpace earnings expectations and boost its forecast. READ MORE HERE.
   
• CNBC reveals that Chipotle Mexican Grill may need to rethink how it tries to woo back customers after a string of foodborne illnesses were linked to the restaurant. READ MORE HERE.
   
• Chick-fil-A is coming out with its first new breakfast entrée in six years, according to Business Insider. READ MORE HERE.
   
• According to Fortune, the list of restaurant chains jumping on the social media-ordering bandwagon continues to grow. Pizza Hut is the latest high-profile brand to enlist a “chatbot” to launch a social ordering platform that will allow the restaurants customers to place orders for pizza and other products using their Twitter accounts on Facebook Messenger. READ MORE HERE.
   
• Starbucks Corp on Wednesday announced a financial investment and global licensing deal with Princi, an artisanal bakery based in Milan, Italy. As part of its investment, Starbucks and Milan-based Angel Lab and Pekepan Investments, will open standalone Princi cafes around the world, reveals Reuters. READ MORE HERE.
   
• Forbes share why brand-building from the inside should be Colin Mitchell’s priority in his new role as global VP-McDonald’s Brand. READ MORE HERE.
   
• Taco Bell is launching a Triple Double Crunchwrap. The new dish contains double layers of seasoned beef, nacho sauce, and tostada shell, shares Business Insider. READ MORE HERE.