EXCLUSIVE: SOCIAL MEDIA WRAP UP- M&S Simply Food Customers to Pick their Own Strawberries, Papa John's World Record, Fine Burger Re-brand

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

NEW ON THE MENU

- Itsu added a salmon & tuna tartare on rice dish to their menu as well as a dark chocolate drop frozen yoghurt
- Big Fernand added new desserts to their menu including apple tarte
- Esquires launched a range of tropical milkshakes
- Cruush introduced a new summer range including chargrilled cauliflower, pomegranate salad with tahini dressing
- Costa Coffee added a mint choc chip cooler to their drinks range
- McDonald’s added Aero McFlurry’s to their menu for a limited time
- Muffin Break added homemade lemonade to their line up
- Lola’s launched a range of Wimbledon themed cupcakes
- GBK added an Old Colonial burger to their menu at their Soho and Bayswater stores

PROMOTIONS

- Byron Burgers gave away free companion burgers to those who signed up to their burger club
- Boost Juice gave away free drinks at their Cambridge store
- Domino’s gave away free pizzas in a Glastonbury themed pizza spying competition
- Zing Zing gave away free wings with orders over £20
- Pizza Hut ran a competition at the Intu Centre allowing customers to sing for their supper and ran a competition gaving away PS4s and Batman: Arkham Knight games for people posting photos of themselves as Batman
- Benito’s Hat offered free guacamole to people wearing hats and gave away a meal for 4 in their Mexican Wave twitter competition
- Starbucks offered cookie dough frappes for £3 from June 26-29, and offered caramel coffee jelly and lemon vanilla frappucinos to their Starbucks Rewards members in advance of general release
- Giraffe promoted their 50p hot drinks before 10.30am
- Barburrito gave away free hot drinks at their Paddington branch
- KFC ran a competition giving away gig tickets for people posting selfies with items from their Streetwise snack range
- Zing Zing gave away 2 boxes of food in a tennis player Chinese names competition
- Giraffe promoted their ‘To Go’ lunches
- Shakeaway handed out free samples at all its branches
- Patisserie Valerie gave away £10 vouchers for people sharing their cream tea photos
- Suchef gave away free breakfasts
- Chilango ran a competition to give away a month’s worth of free meals for people taking photos with the wrestlers they sent out across London
- Chop’d gave away a free lunch
- Papa John’s gave 33% off orders and offered 2-4-1 on pizzas
- Caffe Nero gave away tickets to the Cornbury Festival
- Greggs gave away free doughnuts for rewards accounts that were topped up
- Roosters Piri Piri gave away free food from their menu and offered a whole chicken and wings for £9.99
- Humnmingbird Bakery ran a competition for people baking from their cookbooks, giving away a copy of their newest cookbook
- Wok and Go offered 2-4-1 on their noodle boxes
- Yo! Sushi gave away the newest menu item from their YOLO range
- Youmesushi gave away free meals for customers sharing meal photographs on Twitter, Facebook or Instagram
- Big Fernand offered all you can eat fries
- Pizza Hut ferried diners to their stores in Reading by rickshaw
- Wrap it Up! gave away free wraps

BRAND AND STORE UPDATES

- Hummus Bros reached 128% on their crowdfunding campaign
- Byron announced a new store would be opening in Canterbury
- Nando’s launched its music exchange and participated in Pride parades in London, Dublin and Coventry
- Barburrito announced their 12th store is due to open in Cardiff
- Baskin-Robbins new store opened in Blackburn Mall
- Leon announced they’d be opening up in Tottenham Court Walk on July 1st
- Pret a Manger opened a new store on Bethnal Green Road
- M&S announced that customers would be able to pick their own strawberries at certain branches
- Esquires staff in Coventry posted a video of themselves re-creating Thriller in-store
- Patisserie Valerie opened on Clapham High Street
- Pure’s Shaftesbury Avenue outlet extended its opening hours to 7.30pm on Fridays
- Papa John’s attained the Guiness World Record for the most people tossing a pizza simultaneously, to celebrate their 300th store opening
- Oddono’s appeared at the Gelato Festival London
- A patron launched a campaign to stop Greggs removing macaroni pies from its menu
- Fine Burger’s St Pancras outlet was re-branded as Prime Burger and gave away 100 burgers to celebrate
- Second Cup announced their Portabello store would be opening within a fortnight

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