Australia

To celebrate, High Tech Burrito is holding a Burrito Eating Contest.

Nathan Trebbin from Gloria Jean’s Coffees Castletown, Queensland is the Australian Barista Champion for 2012.

Australia’s largest kebab franchise has pledged support for the junior league’s player development programmes.

KFC and Holden are the major partners of the Nine Network’s reality series.

The openings will bring the total number of stores in Australia and New Zealand to 367.

The menu features McDonald's breakfast items served during the wee hours of the morning.

The Serious Lamb Burger and The Serious Lamb Taster wrap are available in restaurants nationwide from 15th August.

It’s a cloud-based platform that helps food-service businesses streamline operations.

CEO Don Meij described the new logo as cleaner, stronger, and more modern.

According to BIS Shrapnel, the minority of fast food/snack consumers consumed salad in the last two months (26%).

Skewerz is part of the Aktiv Brands portfolio, in this Q&A with Stuart Beechen their MD we find out how the brand revitalisation strategy is going.

QSR Media: How did you come up with the new range?

Co-Branding is symbiotic advertising / marketing. It allows companies the opportunity to be recognised along side other already established or upcoming businesses, products, service providers or celebrities. We are witnessing a wide variety of co-branding exercises around the world. It gives businesses an edge in comparison to their competitor, to show that they’re different. It can give the business a boost by integrating the similar values of different people or brands. It also adds a new look to a business or brand by the addition of a new face or brand to the existing values. The collaborating brands now get to combine their two customer bases and jointly market the new proposition to the entire clientele with an increased focus on what they have to offer.

QSR Media: Tell us about your extended breakfast menu?

In this interview with their founder & MD Blake Read talks about their pop-up store in the Jindabyne slope and how he is going to grow his brand.

Critical to the expansion plans was the retention of the One for the Road staff.