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Executive Q&A: Yum Brands' Wants More Menu Labeling

August 11, 2009

IN THIS ISSUE: Executive Q&A: Yum Brands Wants More Menu Labeling...Domino's Customers Can Follow Their Pizza's Progress... Baskin-Robbins to Introduce Two New Concepts... More from Chain Leader and R&I

Executive Q&A: Yum Brands Wants More Menu Labeling

Yum Brands’ Jonathan Blum is among a group of restaurant executives who gripe that menu-labeling language in the health-care reform bill in the House is unfair to large players. The group doesn’t ask to lighten up on the chains but to include more operators.

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Domino's Customers Can Follow Their Pizza's Progress

Domino's Pizza employees better beware. Screw up an order and your name is mud--digitally speaking, that is. The Ann Arbor, Mich.-based restaurant chain unveiled a graphic-heavy online ordering system dubbed Pizza Tracker. Its highly customized software can identify by name the person making a customer's pizza.

DATA POINT

40%

Percent of Gen Y consumers who say they have used online ordering for delivery or pickup--9% higher than for the general population, according to R&I’s 2009 New American Diner Study.

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Baskin-Robbins to Introduce Two New Concepts

Ice-cream chain Baskin-Robbins announced plans to introduce two new store concepts this year in the United States: Cafe BR, to target a more-upscale demographic, and BR Express, for on-the-go consumers.

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