News on QSR, Restaurant and Food Service Trends from Canada

The province Alberta has put an end to Calgary's trans fat initiative. In January 2008, the Calgary Health Region began limiting the amount of trans fats restaurants could use to less than two percent. It was the first part of a multi-phase initia...

Yum! Brands, Inc.  the world's largest restaurant company and parent of Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, KFC, today released its first Corporate Responsibility Report titled: 'Serving the World.' The printed version of this document, in limited quantity, is on 10...

Richard Ellis has returned to McDonald's Restaurants of Canada, after three years as the VP of communications for McDonald's USA. Ellis is now senior VP, communications and public affairs for McDonald's Restaurants of Canada, where he led PR from 2002 ...

McDonald's fast-food outlets in Canada have temporarily removed tomatoes from their menu options, after news south of the border that salmonella food poisoning first linked to uncooked tomatoes has spread to 16 U.S. states. McDonald's said in a lette...

The foodservice industry’s share of the total food dollar dipped to 39.4% in 2007 from 39.7% in 2006 due to weakness in Central and Atlantic Canada.   Since 2000, the foodservice industry’s market share has slowly eroded from 40.5% – the result of slo...

More than seven million kilos of high-stability canola oil has been used in Canadian KFC restaurants since the company ditched its vegetable shortening frying methods last year in favour of the healthier alternative. Demand from the restaurant chain, ...

Calgary may be making history this week as the first Canadian city to ban trans fats in restaurants, but that doesn't mean eating out will soon become much healthier. Some nutrition experts are concerned the massive push to eliminate trans fats in Ca...

Local diets will be nearly trans fat-free by July 2009, the Calgary Health Region confirmed yesterday. The region's board unanimously endorsed a plan that, according to its medical officer of health, Dr. Brent Friesen, will put the city in the natio...

Canadians might like to think they are different from Americans. But when it comes to eating out, Canadians are members of a fast-food nation just like their neighbor to the south.And amid a host of quick-service chains operating in Canada, native play...

In an effort to save lives and reduce disability from stroke and heart disease, 17 of Canada’s leading health groups and professional associations today urged comprehensive action to reduce sodium levels in food.“Increased blood pressure is the leading...

Despite rising incomes and the lowest unemployment rate in 33 years, Canada’s commercial foodservice industry grew by just 3.0% in the first seven months of 2007 compared to a solid 5.1% sales increase in the first seven months of 2006. Unfavourable we...