EXCLUSIVE: SOCIAL MEDIA WRAP UP- Chop'd, pod Launch New Summer Menus, Wasabi Offers Free Sushi for a Year and Pho Giveaways to Mark 10th Birthday
Here's what the QSR's have been up to on social media this week.
NEW ON THE MENU
- Papa John’s added a Mediterranean Vegetable pizza to their menu
- Vital Ingredient added ice to their smoothies
- Hummingbird Bakery and Lola’s Cupcakes were amongst the brands to sell Father’s Day themed goods
- Starbucks added cinnamon swirl, cupcake, cookie dough and summer pie flavoured frappucinos to their menu
- Sblended added natural, mixed berry and mango & passion fruit flavoured frozen yoghurts to their summer line up
- Pod launched a new summer menu including Lebanese soups, Chicken Caesar salads, super Salmon salads, - Sunshine Beef, Smooth Berry Blitzes and Peruvian Vegetable hot pods to their menu
- Abokado added California Crab & Kale Bento and Veggie Dumplings on Rice to their menu
- Greggs added a green thai chicken lattice to their line up
- GBK began selling Tunnocks milkshakes at all their stores
- Costa brought back their Caramel Crisp
- Chop’d launched a new summer menu
- Caffe Nero added a falafel and tabbouleh salad to their offering
- Pret a Manger launched a new menu at their Strand store
PROMOTIONS
- Papa John’s gave away free pizzas
- Krispy Kreme ran a competition giving away a doughnut hamper, and sold hot drinks for £1.50 at their High Wycombe store
- Pho is giving away tickets for 2 to Vietnam in celebration of its 10th birthday
- Snog Frozen Yoghurt gave out free pots at the BST Hyde Park Film Festival
- Shake Shack gave away frozen custard to Dad’s to celebrate Father’s Day
- Shakeaway ran a Father’s Day joke competition to give away shakes
- Tortilla ran a Father’s Day beer and burrito promotion offering the combination for £5 at their Watford and Lakeside branches
- Chop’d gave away free salads for sharing lunch selfies on Instagram
- Nando’s gave away bottles of their mango and lime peri-peri sauce in 30 of their stores
- McDonald’s sold fruit bags for 49p with Happy Meal purchases, began selling Minions Happy Meals, and ran competitions to give away an outfit worth £250 and a holiday to Ibiza
- Yo! Sushi gave away a £50 Yo! Sushi voucher to customers who filled in a survey on their website
- Apostrophe gave away free juice with toastie purchases at their Canary Wharf branch and ran a competition to give away a £100 voucher for Instagram uploads
- Wok and Go offered 10% discounts for business orders, increasing to 25% for orders of more than 15 boxes
- Joe Delucci’s gave 20% off their fruit and nut nutella gelato
- Wimpy gave away a pot of tea or an Americano with every brown derby purchase
- Wasabi gave the first 25 diners at its new Cambridge restaurant free sushi for a year and ran a competition giving away £50 of vouchers in celebration of International Sushi Day
- The Frying Squad offered buy one, buy one for £1 on their meals
- Pizza Hut gave away free meals for those telling the funniest jokes, as judged by Paddy McGuiness
- Papa John’s offered a summer meal deal of large pizza, jalapeno bites, potato wedges and garlic pizza sticks for £19.99
- Dad’s were given half price meals at Little Chef for Father’s Day
- Subway ran a competition to give away a signed Liverpool FC jersey
- Starbucks is having a pop-up party with Uniqlo at their Regent St store and began running a poll asking for people’s favourite frappe flavour
- Square Pie gave away pies and mash to Dad’s on Fathers Day
BRAND AND STORE UPDATES
- Pod began selling their food at Starbucks Russell St
- A number of chains including Bubbledogs and Wahaca appeared at the Taste of London festival
- Five Guys announced they’d be opening a new store in Leicester
- Krispy Kreme set up a stall at the BST Hyde Park festival and donated doughnuts to Boundless 2015
