Restaurant innovations boast bright colors and celebratory themes.
A new trio of Teavana beverages is coming to Starbucks, boasting bright colors and fruity flavors. The three tea lemonades are all sweetened with liquid cane sugar and shaken with ice.
The Teavana Peach Green Tea Lemonade features Teavana green iced tea combined with a peach-flavored fruit juice blend and lemonade.
The Teavana Guava White Tea Lemonade blends Teavana white iced tea with a guava-flavored fruit juice blend and lemonade.
The Teavana Blueberry Black Tea Lemonade mixes Teavana black iced tea with a blueberry-flavored fruit juice blend and lemonade.
Krispy Kreme Doughnuts is introducing a collection of patriotic donuts to celebrate the Fourth of July. The three new “Let Freedom Ring” donuts display symbols of the holiday in red, white and blue icing and sprinkles.
The Freedom Ring Doughnut, inspired by the American flag, is decorated with red, white and blue icing and is topped with red, white and blue sprinkles.
The Sprinkled Ring Doughnut is an Original Glazed donut dipped in white icing and topped with red, white and blue sprinkles.
The Firework Ring Doughnut is dipped in blue icing and decorated with red and white stripes.
Dairy Queen is debuting the Zero Gravity Blizzard Treat to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first lunar landing. The colorful dessert features Oreo cookie pieces, sparkly cosmic swirls and a sweet cotton candy topping blended with vanilla soft serve and finished with multi-colored galaxy sprinkles.
Activated charcoal lends its smoky hue to the new ice cream flavor at Marble Slab Creamery: Chocolate Mocha Ice Cream. Featuring notes of chocolate mocha and activated charcoal, the flavor stars in a new over-the-top shake and may be paired with the new charcoal-infused Black Hole Waffle Cone.
The Moondust Majestic Shake is a Charcoal Mocha shake served in a jar rimmed with vanilla frosting and Oreo crumbles that is piled with whipped topping, more Oreos, marshmallows, cotton candy, a black cherry rock candy lollipop and Milky Way by Sprinkle Pop sprinkles.
Johnny Rockets is celebrating summer and the grilling season with new barbecue-themed menu items and milkshakes.
The Honey BBQ Burger features a certified Angus beef patty topped with a stack of beer-battered onion rings, lettuce, tomato, American cheese, bacon and honey barbecue sauce.
The Honey BBQ Chicken Sandwich includes grilled chicken topped with a stack of beer-battered onion rings, lettuce, tomato, American cheese, bacon and honey barbecue sauce.
The A1 Burger boasts a certified Angus beef patty with provolone cheese, applewood smoked bacon, caramelized onions, grilled mushrooms, A1 Steak Sauce, lettuce, tomato and mayonnaise.
The BBQ Bacon Cheese Tots are tater tots topped with cheese sauce, bacon pieces and barbecue sauce.
The Honey BBQ Chicken Salad combines crispy chicken tenders dipped in barbecue sauce with applewood smoked bacon, diced tomatoes, avocado, corn, black beans, grilled red onions, Monterey jack cheese, cheddar cheese, jalapeño cornbread croutons served on a bed of seasonal greens with dill ranch dressing.
The Orange Dreamsicle Shake is made with vanilla ice cream blended with orange flavoring and is topped with whipped cream.
The S’mores Shake blends vanilla ice cream with chocolate syrup, marshmallow syrup and graham cracker crumbles and is finished with whipped cream and a drizzle of chocolate syrup.
Dunkin’ has teamed up with the Hershey Co. to create three new beverages and a new donut featuring Hershey’s candy flavors.
The Kit Kat Coolatta is a vanilla bean flavored frozen beverage mixed with pieces of Kit Kat candy bar.
The Heath Flavored Coffee mixes milk chocolate and English toffee flavors with Dunkin’ coffee and may be ordered in hot coffee, iced coffee, espresso drinks, frozen coffee and frozen chocolate.
The Hershey’s Cookies ‘N’ Crème Flavored Coffee delivers notes of white chocolate and cookie pieces and may be ordered in hot coffee, iced coffee, espresso drinks, frozen coffee and frozen chocolate formats.
The new Hershey’s Cookies ‘N’ Crème Donut is a square-shaped pastry filled with vanilla flavored buttercream and topped with white icing and Hershey’s Cookies ‘N’ Crème bar crumbles.
Ciabatta bread is the star of Subway’s new sandwich lineup, the Ciabatta Collection.
The Italian with Fresh Mozzarella Ciabatta Sandwich features Genoa salami, mozzarella cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, onions and basil pesto sauce served on ciabatta bread.
The Chicken Pesto with Fresh Mozzarella Ciabatta Sandwich meshes mozzarella cheese with rotisserie-style chicken topped with lettuce, tomatoes, onions and basil pesto sauce served on ciabatta bread.
The Garlic Steak & Provolone Ciabatta Sandwich features layers of shaved steak topped with a Sub Spice Seasoning plus provolone cheese, tomatoes, onion, green peppers and creamy garlic aioli on ciabatta bread.
Baskin-Robbins is offering new treats that pay homage to Scoops Ahoy, an ice cream shop featured in the upcoming third season of Netflix’s Stranger Things.
The new USS Butterscotch Ice Cream is a butterscotch-flavored ice cream with butterscotch pieces and a toffee-flavored ribbon.
The USS Butterscotch Sundae features three scoops of ice cream topped with corresponding flavored syrups, whipped cream and cherries and separate with waffle cone pieces that mimic sails.
Boston Market is aiming to compete in the sandwich segment with the launch of four new sandwiches.
The Southwest Chicken BLT features Cholula bacon, avocado, Tillamook pepper jack cheese, lettuce, tomato, red onion and a smoky chipotle aioli layered on ciabatta bread.
The Chicken Avocado Club includes bacon, avocado, Tillamook cheddar cheese, lettuce, red onion and herbed mayo on ciabatta bread.
The Chicken or Turkey on Ciabatta features smoked cheddar, lettuce, tomato, red onion and herbed mayo with a choice of rotisserie chicken or carved turkey.
The Chicken Salad Sandwich has rotisserie chicken with sliced tomato, lettuce and mayo on a multi-grain hoagie roll.
IHOP is introducing three burgers made with 100% U.S.D.A. choice Black Angus beef.
The Big IHOP Burger features a buttermilk pancake griddled with cheddar cheese that is layered between two steakburger patties and topped with American cheese, hickory-smoked bacon and IHOP sauce.
The Garlic Butter Steakburger is topped with savory Gilroy garlic butter, hickory-smoked bacon, white cheddar cheese, lettuce, tomato, onion and mayo.
The Loaded Philly Steakburger is piled with sautéed onions and peppers and smothered with melted white cheddar cheese and cheddar cheese sauce.
Jun
2024
Spring has sprung—with new sandwiches.
Category innovation is focusing on health, occasions and functional ingredients.