Seems like every restaurant brand is trying to extend their reach by putting labeled products in the grocery aisles; if my memory is correct, seems like Taco Bell was first. Now there is hardly a fast casual brand that you don’t see in the grocery, whether it’s Boston Market, Fridays, Marie Callenders, Fatburger, Burger King,… Continue reading Steak N Shake Frozen Burgers Review
Category: Food Business
Spoiler Alert: The World’s Worst “Steak”
If you’ve read my posts in the past, you know I seldom write a “bad” review. While I may be dissatisfied with some aspect of a visit to a restaurant or with a product I try at home, I almost always try and find something redeeming about the experience. Although many people would dispute what… Continue reading Spoiler Alert: The World’s Worst “Steak”
Tyson Buffalo Chicken Strips Review
I have often written on the subject of my bewilderment that after frozen, fried foods being around for over fifty years, they haven’t figured out how to make it truly crispy yet. Pre-cooked/fried at the factory, no matter how you screw around with it at home (following the manufacturer’s instructions), you can’t get that crisp… Continue reading Tyson Buffalo Chicken Strips Review
Bridgford Thick Sliced Pepperoni
Bridgford Thick Sliced Pepperoni was on sale this week, and I try and stock up when those little delightful discs of processed pork are discounted. Bridgford started about 80 years ago in Southern California; its still a family business and headquartered in Anaheim. They were primarily in the bread dough for consumers business (dough, heat… Continue reading Bridgford Thick Sliced Pepperoni
Mutti Pizza Sauce Review
Imported from Italy from a company that for the last hundred years has focused on processing tomato products and only tomato products, you can’t get much more straightforward than these ingredients: tomatoes (99%), salt, basil, oregano, onion. Mutti is located in Parma. In addition to pizza sauce, they make peeled tomatoes, puree, pulp and concentrate. I… Continue reading Mutti Pizza Sauce Review
Odoms Tennessee Pride Sausage Gravy
Picked this frozen packet up on a whim. Now part of the food giant ConAgra, which was started in Nebraska in 1919 by four farmers who merged a few small town grain elevators. Today ConAgra does $14 billion a year, with oh so familiar brands: Hebrew National, Hunts, PAM, Jiffy Pop, Peter Pan, Banquet, Bertolli, Parkay,… Continue reading Odoms Tennessee Pride Sausage Gravy
Jack Links Smoked Sausage Review
I’ve previously puked out a lot of words on the Jack Link company, which went from a teeny tiny country butcher shop in a teeny tiny Wisconsin town to a global powerhouse manufacturers and distributor of meat snacks. I even stopped by their outlet store, near their original factory in Minong, Wisconsin last year.… Continue reading Jack Links Smoked Sausage Review
The Wisdom (?) of Very Young Top Officers at Multinationals
So Burger King has a 32 year old CEO, Daniel Schwartz, who has no previous industry experience. Fresh from his grueling undergrad education, Schwartz went to Wall Street as an M&A analyst, made a couple of other stops before joining 3G (Burger King’s private equity owner) as an analyst in 2005. A few years later,… Continue reading The Wisdom (?) of Very Young Top Officers at Multinationals
Parkview Cocktail Sausages Review
I love cocktail sausages; not if they are swimming in barbecue sauce in a chafing dish mind you, but as a breakfast meat, or an anytime, low carb snack. Most brands are generally smoked, so if you’re inclined, you could eat them right out of the package. For me, I prefer them a little crispy,… Continue reading Parkview Cocktail Sausages Review
AM/PM Mini Mart – Ready to Eat Double Cheeseburger
They’ve been doing this a long time, those AM/PM folks. I remember getting two burgers or two dogs at Los Angeles area AM/PM in the mid 80s for next to no $. AM/PM were an afterthought to ARCO gas stations in the West in the mid 70s, to bring in more customers, but… Continue reading AM/PM Mini Mart – Ready to Eat Double Cheeseburger