EXCLUSIVE: Social Media Wrap Up: GBK in Huge Burger Giveaway; Chipotle's City Opening; Uniqlo and Starbucks Team Up;

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

NEW ON THE MENU

- AngelBerry added watermelon sorbet to their menu
- Costa added a mint choc chip cooler to their drinks menu
- Snog launched a new chocolate and coffee blended snoguccino
- Abokado added mango pots and thai chicken bento to their lineup
- Pure launched a new Greek yoghurt, strawberry, cacao nibs and honey pot
- Subway launched a new Inside Out Kids’ Pak in association with Disney Pixar
- Krispy Kreme announced that Reese’s peanut butter doughnuts would be making a comeback
- Pita Pit revamped their coffee offering
- Little Chef launched a new range of smoothies and frappes
- Greggs added a new range of juices to their range

PROMOTIONS

- Byron ran a ‘British Summer in a Tin Cup’ competition, giving away £30 vouchers for the best suggestion
- Papa John’s offered a 2 for Tuesday deal on their pizzas and large pizzas for £9.99 and gave away two free desserts with XXL pizza orders
- McDonald’s gave away 150 date packs for entrants showing their most memorable date via the medium of emojis and gave away tickets to Ibiza in conjunction with MTV. They also began offering fruit bags for 49p with Happy Meal purchases
- Pho held an anti-sandwich picnic in conjunction with Bunnychow and offered 20% off at their St Paul’s branch after 5pm
- Subway ran a competition giving away signed Liverpool FC shirts
- Ping Pong offered 2 for 1 on cocktails at their Bows Bells branch
- Yo! Sushi gave away free miso soups during the London tube strike
- Esquires Coffee gave away free coffees in an Instagram Baristagram competition
- Pizza Hut ran a cocktail competition, delivering free cocktails to an office that came up with the best pizza cocktail recipe
- Little Chef ran a Pixels Movie competition giving away a family trip to New York and offered customers spending more than £30 a voucher book of deals at summer attractions
- Nando’s gave away tickets to Lovebox
- Krispy Kreme gave away a year worth of free doughnuts at the Grillstock festival
- Uniqlo put a UT vending machine in Starbucks Conduit St branch
- Pod offered 15% off first orders placed for their delivery service
- West Cornwall Pasty Company offered a £3.99 cheese and bacon pasty and drink meal deal
- Pret a Manger gave away free smoothies in collaboration with Stylist magazine
- Domino’s held a Chick ‘n’ mix box competition and offered a ‘buy one, get one slice for £1’ one pizzas
- Lola’s gave away cheesecake, mini cupcakes and brownies at their new Bicester Village store
- Hummingbird Cafe offered BOGOF deals on their cupcakes
- GBK gave away 400 free cheeseburgers to celebrate the opening of their Canterbury branch
- Wok and Go announced they’d be replacing their 2-4-1 Tuesday’s with daily deal

- Zing Zing gave away bubble teas with orders over £20

BRAND AND STORE UPDATES

- Tossed promoted their Seedrs fundraising campaign offering various levels of discount for investment as their 5th Services store opened in Cobham
- Papa John’s opened at Cobham Services
- Chipotle’s London Wall branch opened and gave away free burritos
- Boost Juice Bars announced they’d be opening at Reading
- Nando’s Hempsted Valley opened
- Papa John’s gave away free pizzas
- Itsu announced their Cambridge shop is due to open on July 17th
- Tossed offered 20% off for a year for those investing £200 in their crowd funding campaign, 50% off for investments of £2,500 and 50% off for life for investments over £5,000
- Southern Fried Chicken announced master franchises for Martinique, Guadeloupe and Kenya
- Chop’d are now available in select Costa stores
- Roosters Piri Piri promoted their recently refurbished Ilford store
- Shakeaway Windsor re-opened giving away 50 free milkshakes
- Costa launched their Grounds for Grounds project
- Chunky Chicken announced they’d be opening a flagship store in Rochdale
- Yo! Sushi at Intu Bromely had its official opening
- GBK launched a new order and collect feature on their website

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