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10 notable c-store foodservice launches this past month

3 days ago | restaurantdive.com | Brett Dworski

This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Convenience retailers are launching new food products regularly as the industry continues to seek ways to compete with QSRs. Week by week, c-store operators seem to debut fresh takes on sandwiches, fried proteins, desserts and more. Here are some notable c-store food and beverage launches from the past month. Value meals have increasingly become a linchpin for convenience retailers looking to boost their foodservice programs.
Taco Bell Nuggets return, teasing more Crispy Chicken menu items

1 week ago | restaurantdive.com | Aneurin Canham-Clyne

This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Taco Bell is adding its Crispy Chicken Nuggets back to menus for a limited time starting April 24, and will add menu items with Crispy Chicken to its permanent menu next year, according to an emailed press release. The nuggets will be available while supplies last.
7-Eleven to open 1,300 new stores through 2030

1 week ago | restaurantdive.com | Jessica Loder

7-Eleven plans to open 1,300 new stores in North America through 2030, according to its parent company Seven & i Holdings’ fiscal fourth-quarter earnings presentation last week. The retailer also expects to roughly double the number of stores with QSRs from 1,080 to 2,100, incoming CEO Stephen Dacus said during the fiscal Q4 earnings call.
Scooter’s Coffee switches to points-based loyalty

1 week ago | restaurantdive.com | Aneurin Canham-Clyne

This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Scooter’s Coffee has redesigned its loyalty program as a points-based system in its app. Consumers now earn five points, called Smiles, for every dollar spent on orders placed in the app. Diners who scan their app at Scooter’s but don’t use it to pay for an order get three points per dollar, according to a press release emailed to Restaurant Dive.
Chili’s pop-up finances fast food meals in latest dig at rising prices

1 week ago | restaurantdive.com | Peter Adams

This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Chili’s Grill & Bar unveiled a new pop-up shop that extends its attacks on rising fast food prices while touting a new Big QP burger, according to a press release. Open April 16-17 in New York, the Chili's Fast Food Financing experience emulates a low-rent payday loan retailer, where “approved” visitors receive a gift card to help cover the price of fast food combo meals.
Here’s what 7 major restaurants pay their CEOs - and their store-level workers

1 week ago | restaurantdive.com | Aneurin Canham-Clyne

This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. The fast food industry has long been criticized for low pay, but brands like Starbucks and Chipotle have sought to convince the public, and prospective employees, of the benefits that come with making cappuccinos and burritos. Trade associations have argued that fast food, and restaurants in general, are better employers than critics claim.
One Fair Wage: DC’s tip credit elimination is a ‘success story’

1 week ago | restaurantdive.com | Aneurin Canham-Clyne

This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. One Fair Wage said it wants to use Washington, D.C., as a model for the gradual elimination of the tipped wage in other jurisdictions, according to a report issued last week. The District’s full-service restaurant employment has remained steady since the passage of Initiative 82 in 2022, according to seasonally adjusted Bureau of Labor Statistics data cited by OFW.
Blaze Pizza remakes loyalty program

1 week ago | restaurantdive.com | Aneurin Canham-Clyne

This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Blaze Pizza launched a new app and reworked loyalty program in partnership with Thanx, the companies said in an emailed press release Monday. Thanx and Blaze have already transitioned the brand’s existing 5 million rewards members to the new program. Blaze said the rewards program will feature more personalized rewards and that it will add features like in-app exclusives, secret menus and, potentially, brand merchandise.
Noble Gas bringing Capriotti’s sandwiches to East Coast c-stores

1 week ago | restaurantdive.com | Brett Dworski

Noble Gas, which operates about a dozen c-stores in the Northeast, has partnered to open Capriotti's Sandwich Shops inside three of its Connecticut gas stations, the companies announced this week. The deal marks Capriotti’s debut in Connecticut. The QSR chain — which has about 175 locations around the U.S. — will open in Noble's newest gas station in Enfield on April 25, with locations in Windsor and Hamden to come at a later date, according to the announcement.
Will restaurants be hit hard by tariffs? 6 experts weigh in

1 week ago | restaurantdive.com | Julie Littman |Aneurin Canham-Clyne |Emma Liem Beckett

This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Despite pausing so-called reciprocal tariffs for 90-days as of April 9, the U.S. is still maintaining a 10% baseline tariff. That level of taxation on imports across the board will be a significant cost driver for businesses, but less immediately threatening than the country-specific duties floated in early April.