The State of Queensland has announced plans to introduce new legislation requiring fast food outlets to display the energy content of foods and drinks on their menus – a move which has already been voluntarily pre-empted by several of Australia’s major fast food chains. Several major quick service food chains in Australia now voluntarily display energy contents on their menus, including Subway, Hungry Jacks, Domino’s, and McDonald’s. Similar to laws are already in place in NSW and the... ...Read more »

Subway has announced that, from today, its Australian stores will display the kilojoule content of food products on their menu boards. Subway is the latest of several major quick service food chains in Australia to make this move. Other include Hungry Jacks, Domino’s, and McDonald’s. From today, Subway restaurants in Australia will also display nutritional content information on napkins, counter displays and store brochures. In a statement released today, a spokesperson for Subway said the labelling... ...Read more »

Nominations are closing at the end of September for the RSPCA’s Good Egg Awards, which celebrates medium- to large-scale organisations in the food service, hospitality, manufacturing or supermarket sector who have switched, or are planning to switch, to cage-free egg products. The Good Egg Award began in the UK, with international award winners including McDonalds UK, Subway, Starbucks Coffee, Unilever’s Hellmann’s Mayonnaise, Microsoft, Google and Sainsburys supermarkets. Retailers... ...Read more »

Starbucks yesterday announced a new strategy of strategic growth and expanding coffee sales after a disastrous two years of economic downturn. The company’s new plan, announced at the company’s annual shareholder meeting involves expanding sales of Starbucks’ instant coffee brand, VIA Ready Brew, and licensing its secondary brand, Seattle’s Best Coffee, for sale at a variety of fast-food chains, including Burger King, Subway and Taco Bell. The company will also expand its... ...Read more »

Country Road, Aldi and independent retailer Allspares and Bearings were lat night announced as national winners of the 2009 ARA Australian Retail Awards. Clothing outlet Country Road took out the retail industry’s top honour as 2009 Australian Retailer of the Year, edging out Aldi (Food, drink and grocery 2009 Australian Retailer of the Year), L’Occitane (Speciality retailing 2009 Australian Retailer of the Year) and Subway (Restaurants, cafés and takeaway 2009 Australian Retailer of... ...Read more »

The Australian Retailers Association (ARA) has today announced the category winners for the industry’s top honour – Australian Retailer of the Year. Discount grocer Aldi, which has made rapid strides forward over the past year, claimed the food, drink and grocery category, while sandwich franchise Subway took out the restaurants, cafés and takeaway category. The two food industry representatives will vie for the national award with Country Road (clothing and footwear) and L’Occitane... ...Read more »

Subway, one of the world’s leading fast-food franchises, has dropped Anzac biscuits from their menu following a request to change the recipe by the Department of Veteran’s Affairs earlier this year. Federal legislation dictates that Anzac biscuits and cakes can only be sold in Australia if the product “generally conforms to the traditional recipe and shape, is not advertised in any way that would play on Australia’s military heritage, and is not used in association with the... ...Read more »