He believes the problem is a stigma about frozen food in the UK, although we have the upmarket Cook frozen ready-meals chain here.
And for those consumers, many of whom are already flocking to build-a-meal chains like Chipotle, Panera's foray into customization could take some of the stress out of ordering a salad-dressing-on-the-side-no croutons.
He's remixed everyone, played everywhere, and put out more great records than you've had disappointing hot meals in chain restaurants overseen by TV chefs.
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But KCBS-TV in Los Angeles found carbohydrate levels higher than listed in meals at three chain restaurants, including T.G.I. Friday's New York strip with blue cheese.
Both years, about two million customers crowded into the restaurant for the free meals, but the chain will neither advertise during the Super Bowl this year nor offer the giveaway.
This model is particularly appealing to millennials, he adds, who tend to care less about price - the average "fast-casual" meal is $7.50, compared to $5 for a meal at a chain like Wendy's - than about ethics.
We need to learn how to cook, really cook, not just buy pre-prepared meals from supermarket chains.
These vouchers would entitle the holder to a 2-for-1 meal across the chain's 15 mid-market restaurants.
As with similar apps, Mr. Gramckow can search for foods by name or meals from restaurant chains and the app calculates and stores all of the nutritional information.
Lynda Adams wasn't upset to receive such a pitch, even though she didn't have neuropathy, a diabetes-related nerve disorder, and even though the meal, at a chain restaurant in Costa Mesa, didn't look particularly gourmet.
