EL POLLO LOCO CLOSES UP 43% (LOCO, CMG)
El Pollo Loco, which soared more than 50% on its market debut Friday, again surged Monday.Shares in the Costa Mesa-based fire-roasted chicken specialists ended up 43% to $34.48. BI's Hayley Peterson...
View ArticleDENNIS GARTMAN: Exploding Chicken Chain Shares Stink Of A Stock Market Top...
Shares in fire-roasted chicken chain El Pollo Loco have climbed 43% since its market debut Friday.BI's Hayley Peterson has explained why some investors believe Loco, based out of Costa Mesa,...
View ArticleChicken Scare Is Testing Chinese Loyalty To American Fast Food
(Reuters) - A food safety scare in China is testing local consumers' loyalty to foreign fast-food brands, including McDonald's Corp and Yum Brands Inc, which owns the KFC and Pizza Hut chains.Yum said...
View ArticlePeople Are Paying Twice As Much For Meat Processed By This Mobile Slaughterhouse
People are willing to pay twice as much for meat processed by a tiny slaughterhouse that fits onto the back of a truck, as opposed to a large commercial meat processor. That's the case at least in...
View ArticleChicken Stocks Are Getting Whacked (TSN, PPC)
Shares of U.S. poultry producers are down today after Russia announced sanctions targeting Western meat products including chicken from the U.S.Arkansas-based Tyson Foods is down 2.3% and...
View ArticleA Bar In Wisconsin Is Now Selling A Bloody Mary Garnished With An Entire...
A bar in Milwaukee, Wisc., is now selling a Bloody Mary drink garnished with an entire fried chicken, according to local news Fox 6 Now.Now that's what we call brunch.Dubbed "The Chicken Fried Bloody...
View ArticleChinese Food Scare Is A Boon To The Thai Chicken Industry
Charoen Pokphand Foods Pcl, Thailand's largest meat and animal feed producer, said on Monday its business was booming, especially after it was approached by McDonald's Holding Co (Japan) to supply...
View ArticleMorgan Stanley Presents Its 'Pollo Muertos' Case, And Now El Pollo Loco...
Southern California-based El Pollo Loco, which went public just three weeks ago, has already seen its shares climb as much as 71%. Before Tuesday, the stock was trading around $33.Today shares were...
View ArticleI Found Something Gross On My McDonald's Chicken Sandwich And I'm Never...
I recently got a firsthand reminder of how quickly a company can destroy its brand and future business with an individual customer.With a restaurant, especially, all it takes is one bad — and badly...
View ArticleFoster Farms Recalls Nearly 40,000 Pounds Of Chicken
SEATTLE (Reuters) - California-based poultry giant Foster Farms is recalling nearly 40,000 pounds of frozen grilled chicken due to Listeria contamination, the Department of Agriculture said on...
View ArticleChickens Today Are Shockingly Bigger Than They Used To Be
Researchers in Canada sought to raise three breeds of broiler chickens common in 1957, 1978, and 2005 without the influence of disparate feeds or hormones to see how they’d changed genetically.This...
View ArticleSee How McDonald's Really Makes Its Chicken McNuggets
McDonald's is offering up a degree of transparency with their new “Our Food, Your Questions" campaign. The restaurant is inviting consumers to ask questions about their food on social-media platforms...
View ArticleHow To Make One Chicken Into An Entire Week Of Meals
It's not uncommon for my weekly grocery list to feature a smattering of protein odds and ends. With one ribeye here, one pork chop there, it can resemble a catalogue of butcher's cuts — plus, it makes...
View ArticleWhistleblowing Perdue Chicken Farmer Had The Perfect Response For People Who...
Early in December, North Carolina chicken farmer J. Craig Watts blew the whistle on the poultry industry, revealing what it looks like inside the chicken breeding houses for Perdue Farms, the third...
View ArticleYou don't need an outdoor grill to make these droolworthy chicken wings
A Super Bowl party is nothing without wings, and grilled wings are even better.Even if you live in a small apartment with no outdoor space or safe grilling area to speak of, you can still enjoy that...
View ArticleAmerica's hunger for antibiotic-free chicken is becoming a costly headache...
CHICAGO/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - McDonald's Corp's decision last week to phase out human antibiotics from its U.S. chicken supply will add to costs of production in a tight-margin business that are...
View ArticleKFC might be pressured into changing how its chicken is raised after...
LOS ANGELES/CHICAGO (Reuters) - KFC, the world's largest chain of fried chicken restaurants, may face pressure from consumer and environmental groups to change how its poultry are raised after...
View ArticleI just ate at a McDonald’s in Spain, and it was so much better than in America
McDonald's restaurants outside of the US serve a bunch of unique dishes that you can't get Stateside. So when I was in Barcelona, Spain, earlier this month for MWC, I made it a mission to try...
View ArticleChina wants to overcome its poor food safety reputation
China will no longer chase bumper grain harvests and instead make safer foods a priority and boost imports as it bids to tackle its rural environmental problems, government officials said.The shift in...
View ArticleOur superbug problem is about to get much worse
The possibility that superbugs — bacteria that can't be killed by our best antimicrobials — might become widespread is a terrifying doomsday scenario. In such a future, driven by our extreme overuse of...
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