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...China, fast-food giants KFC and McDonald's are competing in a new area: nutrition. Given that health experts are blaming Western food for an obesity surge, China's consumers are getting more cautious about food safety and nutritional value. In April the Chinese Ministry of Health claimed that fried food is carcinogenic and suggested that people avoid eating it, putting KFC and McDonald's at the center of the dispute...
...icon-and-bar-chart format. McDonald's already makes some information available. On a recent visit, customer Kangwei Wu saw some brochures on nutritional content at a McDonald's in Guangzhou, but, she said, "they were placed in the back corner of the restaurant where people barely noticed them." KFC, with 1,200 restaurants, began rebuilding its image in China last summer. On its Chinese website, KFC presented a 1950s revolutionary-style picture of a fist (a symbol of the proletariat). The headline reads: KFC CHANGES FOR CHINA. Owner Yum Brands' Chinese CEO Su Jingshi says KFC is determined...
...Burger King seems in no particular hurry to address the issue. Spokeswoman Lauren Hammann maintains that trans fats have "never been an issue" with customers but adds that the company is looking into the question. Yum! Brands has been testing oil blends for Taco Bell and KFC (Pizza Hut has always been trans fat free), but Yum! senior vice president Jonathan Blum says the scarcity of alternative oils has hampered efforts...
...neighborhoods longer than Berlin was divided by its wall. Their guide, Bren-dan McKernan, laced fact with a heavy dose of blarney. He recited the alphabet soup of Irish paramilitary groups just as the bus passed a fast food restaurant. To the i.r.a., i.n.l.a., u.d.a. and u.v.f., he added kfc. "Their leader was known as the Colonel," he deadpanned. "They were responsible for a lot of stomach injuries." Another guide eases nerves by repeating that passengers have nothing to fear, then asks them to pick up their bulletproof vests at the back of bus. He always gets a laugh. Real...
...Hardee's took the low road, heavily promoting gut-busting sandwiches like the Enormous Omelet and the Monster Thickburger--names that only hint at the fat and calorie content between their buttered buns. Burger King also upgraded its chicken sandwich, a move McDonald's will make this summer. KFC has added a 99¢ chicken sandwich. The situation got so bad that Wendy's had to launch its latest innovation, an entrée-size fruit salad, in February--not exactly when most people are yearning for a slice of cantaloupe--because it knew that McDonald's was launching an apple...