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American Lorain, an international packaged foods company, has won a bid to enter into a two-year contract with Yum! Restaurants Consulting, to distribute a variety of food products for Yum! China Division's subsidiaries Kentucky Fried Chicken and Pizza Hut in China. According to the company, the potential distribution contract will enhance the existing relationship between American Lorain and Yum! China Division. The potential contract, which is intended to cover the period from September...

By Dawn House, The Salt Lake Tribune Jul. 8--There's not much time to prepare a home-cooked meal for Jennifer Herbert, who juggles a full-time real estate career and five children. Herbert regularly eats out, often with her husband and then as a family each week. She also meets clients at restaurants, and during the afternoon when she's driving her children to soccer games or music lessons, she stops at a fast-food drive-through for snacks. "My husband and I aren't big travelers and we...

MORE than 200 locals have signed an internet petition to bring a KFC restaurant to a sleepy Midland town. The fast food enthusiasts have created a group on social networking website Facebook to get a branch of the US chicken chain opened in Evesham, Worcestershire. The group's creator, Carl Thomas, said: "If this works I should get the key to Evesham, or free chicken for a year." (c) 2008 Sunday Mercury; Birmingham (UK). Provided by ProQuest Information and Learning. All rights Reserved.

By David B Caruso NEW YORK - Making cannoli is serious business in New York. It's a dessert so tempting that even a hit man in the "Godfather" couldn't leave a box behind. But even the most respected chefs of this and other pastries are being ordered to make changes by Tuesday - the day New York's trans fat ban takes full effect. New York is the first American city to adopt such a stringent rule. Starting this week, the ban extends to almost all prepared food in restaurants, bakeries,...

By Joseph Chaney With the stock market debut this month of the hot-pot restaurant chain Little Sheep, brokers are promoting a new theme for investors hungry for a slice of China's consumer boom: home-grown fast food. Chinese appetite for on-the-go burgers, fried chicken, pizza and noodles is expected to make fast food a $66 billion industry in China by 2009, up from $51.7 billion last year, according to the research firm Euromonitor. The Chinese chains Little Sheep, Cafe de Coral and...

NEW YORK - A dozen rats were caught on video scurrying around the floor of a New York City KFC/Taco Bell restaurant early Friday, running between counters and tables and climbing on children's high chairs. News crews flocked to the windows of the Greenwich Village neighborhood restaurant, which hadn't opened for the day. By midmorning, the footage was all over the Internet and television news shows, with onlookers giving a play-by-play from the sidewalk as the rodents moved about. "He's...

NEW YORK - KFC Corp. said Monday it will start using zero trans fat soybean oil for its Original Recipe and Extra Crispy fried chicken, Potato Wedges and other menu items. The news preceded the Board of Health's first public hearing Monday on a plan to make New York the first U.S. city to ban restaurants from serving food containing artificial trans fats.KFC's systemwide rollout is to be completed by April 2007, but the company said many of its approximately 5,500 restaurants already have...

By Lisa Richwine WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. consumer group sued the operator of the KFC fried chicken restaurant chain on Tuesday to try and force it to stop frying foods in an artery- clogging fat. The Center for Science in the Public Interest, in a suit filed against Yum Brands Inc., said some KFC meals were "startlingly" high in harmful trans fat from the partially hydrogenated oils used for frying. CSPI Executive Director Michael Jacobson said it was harder to avoid trans fat...

By Lisa Richwine WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. consumer group sued the operator of the KFC fried chicken restaurant chain on Tuesday to try and force it to stop frying foods in an artery- clogging fat. The Center for Science in the Public Interest, in a suit filed against Yum Brands Inc., said some KFC meals were "startlingly" high in harmful trans fat from the partially hydrogenated oils used for frying. CSPI Executive Director Michael Jacobson said it was harder to avoid trans fat...

By Lisa RichwineWASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. consumer group sued the operator of the KFC fried chicken restaurant chain on Tuesday to try and force it to stop frying foods in an artery- clogging fat.The Center for Science in the Public Interest, in a suit filed against Yum Brands Inc., said some KFC meals were "startlingly" high in harmful trans fat from the partially hydrogenated oils used for frying.CSPI Executive Director Michael Jacobson said it was harder to avoid trans fat at...