Google may have been the first big tech company to push NFC payments, but it was Apple Pay that got the public excited about buying things with your smartphone. At a Google I/O session for Android Pay, the search giant announced that it was partnering with McDonalds and Papa John’s Pizza to launch Hands Free, … Read more
Taco Bell has announced it will give away free biscuit tacos on May 5, Tuesday, as a part of its new ad campaign called “Breakfast Defector Day.” The day also happens to fall on Mexican holiday Cinco de Mayo. Taco Bell will be giving away free biscuit tacos between breakfast hours, 7 a.m. to 11 … Read more
Opening on Wall Street is Starbucks‘ first express format store, which does away with extraneous spaces for sitting down and working or socializing, instead boiling down the Starbucks experience down to its most espresso-like form: you, the cashier, and the coffee. Only a miniscule 538 square feet, the new space was designed by the Starbucks … Read more
Readers of a certain age will remember the Starbucks scene in 1998’s You’ve Got Mail, a 38-second diatribe on the “defining sense of self” one gets from ordering from an impossible array of short-tall-dark-caf-decaf, etc. For a few buckaroos, you gain a semblance of decision-making ownership with that tall decaf cappuccino. Ah, consumerism. If only the lines were shorter, did you say? Seems like someone heard you. Earlier this week, the on-demand, … Read more
Dunkin’ Donuts loves you…and bacon. And that’s why they are rewarding our loyalty with their new “Deluxe Bacon Donut”. Shirley Leung, Business Columnist and Associate Editor at The Boston Globe, tweeted delicious proof of the glazed donuts decorated with strips of bacon. It’s currently being consumer tested in participating shops in Providence Mass. This isn’t … Read more
To attract millennials, Hooters is taking a couple of points from Buffalo Wild Wings’ playbook. Much like the hugely successful wing chain, Hooters will offer a limited-time menu during the NCAA tournament. Items on Hooters’ promotional menu include bacon-wrapped chicken wings and a chili-cheese dog called “Porky’s revenge,” according to Foodbeast. Hooters also expanded its … Read more
If you live in Philly, consider yourself the true burger king/queen, you might want to jump on a current Groupon deal that could keep you in burgers and fries every day for an entire year for only $144. That is, if your body can handle such a thing. Yes, this is real. Touting a value … Read more