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		<title>Restaurants Show Growth in Soup and Salad Menu Items, Finds Technomic</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Chicago, IL  (RestaurantNews.com)  Away-from-home soup and salad purchases are on the rise, as consumers seek light, healthy and affordable fare. A variety of portion sizes featuring soup/salad options on different areas of the menu allows consumers to tailor their meal specifically to their needs. Whether it&#8217;s a cup or bowl, side or entree, 61 percent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jack in the Box Guests Catch a Great Deal with $2.99 Fish Sandwich Combo Meal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[San Diego, CA  (RestaurantNews.com)  Consumers fishing for a great meal deal need look no further. Just in time for the Lent season, Jack in the Box® restaurants are offering for a limited time a Fish Sandwich Combo for only $2.99, plus tax. Jack’s Fish Sandwich is made with two lightly battered fillets of Alaskan Pollock [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tossed Hires Real Estate Veteran A. Michael Toroyan as Chief Development Officer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Restaurant Real Estate Representative and Restaurant Managing Partner Brings Extensive Experience to Growing &#8220;Fresh &#38; Healthy Cuisine&#8221; Quick Casual Concept  Ft. Lauderdale, FL  (RestaurantNews.com)  Tossed®, home of garden fresh salads, crepe wraps, grilled panini and sandwiches, today announced the hiring of A. Michael (A.T.) Toroyan as Chief Development Officer. Toroyan, a 20-year veteran of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Dairy Queen System Opens 500th Location in China</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At Least 100 More Stores Planned for 2012 in Company&#8217;s Largest International Market Minneapolis, MN  (RestaurantNews.com)  The Dairy Queen® system, part of Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A and BRK.B), today opened its 500th location in China and has plans to open more than 100 new restaurants there by the end of 2012. China has been the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saladworks Opens in Reston, VA Saturday, Februrary 11th – $5 Salads 2/11-2/13</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Salad Franchise Location Open at Plaza America Shopping Center, 11692 Plaza America Drive Conshohocken, PA  (RestaurantNews.com)  Saladworks, the nation’s first and largest fresh-tossed salad franchise concept, is opening its second Virginia location, in the Plaza America Shopping Center, 11692 Plaza America Drive. Saladworks is celebrating the grand opening of its Reston Virginia location by offering [...]]]></description>
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		<title>McDonald&#8217;s Delivers A January Comparable Sales Increase Of 6.7%</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Oak Brook, IL  (RestaurantNews.com)  McDonald&#8217;s Corporation (NYSE: MCD) today announced global comparable sales growth of 6.7% in January. Performance by segment was as follows: U.S. up 7.8% Europe up 4.0% Asia/Pacific, Middle East and Africa up 7.3% &#8220;January marks another month of sustained sales growth, demonstrating the ongoing appeal of McDonald&#8217;s winning combination of value, menu [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leading Seattle Restaurateurs Are Fans of Great Design and Lots of Dining Room Noise</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The spare, referential dining room that&#8217;s lately taken hold in Seattle is costly and loud, but leading Seattle restaurateurs say they wouldn&#8217;t have it any other way. In a panel discussion last night hosted by the Seattle Architecture Foundation, Ethan Stowell (Ethan Stowell Restaurants); Chad Dale (Revel; The Walrus and The Carpenter); Deming Maclise and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Domino&#8217;s franchisee hits big time with cheese-dough creation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It isn&#8217;t often national restaurant chains get menu items from the kitchens of their franchisees, but Brian Edler&#8217;s idea was one Domino&#8217;s Pizza executives ate right up. Edler had been tinkering for a few years with recipes at his Main Street store in downtown Findlay, Ohio, when he started cooking up Parmesan bread bites &#8212; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>National Restaurant Association Announces 2012 Kitchen Innovations Award Recipients</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Esteemed Award Honors Industry’s Groundbreaking Foodservice Equipment In An Exclusive Pavilion at NRA Show Chicago, IL  (RestaurantNews.com)  The National Restaurant Association today announced the recipients of the 2012 Kitchen Innovations™ (KI) Award, which recognizes cutting-edge kitchen equipment in the foodservice market. An independent, expert panel of judges comprised of internationally recognized food facilities consultants, multi-unit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pizza Hut, KFC Menus Will Likely Become Pricier This Year</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yum Brands Inc., which thrives on budget diners at its Pizza Hut, KFC and Taco Bell chains, will increase menu prices this year in various parts of the world in response to rapidly rising food costs. The pricing plan, which will be implemented in varying stages, follows on the company&#8217;s strong fourth-quarter results posted Monday [...]]]></description>
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