Menu Tracker: New items from Pizza Hut, Panera, and Subway

Plus innovation at &Pizza, Bad Daddy’s Burger Bar, Better Buzz Coffee Roasters, Buffalo’s Café, Crisp & Green, Gong Cha, Häagen-Dazs, Honeygrow, Insomnia Cookies, Juice it Up!, Main Event, Marble Slab Creamery , Marco’s Pizza, Native Grill & Wings, Nick the Greek, Ninety Nine Restaurant & Pub, Potbelly, Qdoba, Red Robin Gourmet Burgers & Brews, 16 Handles, Sunny Street Cafe, Taco Cabana, Taziki’s Mediterranean Cafe, Topgolf, and Velvet Taco Pizza Hut is returning to its thin-crust roots with a somewhat trending pie type: Chicago tavern-style. Perhaps not as well-known as that city’s deep-dish pizza, tavern-style is more widely consumed there, because you just can’t eat deep-dish that often.  Marco’s Pizza has new spicy pizza, among other chile-spiked items. Subway has new lightish, less expansive savory snacks that it’s calling Dippers, and Panera has a new beverage line. Better Buzz Coffee Roasters, a smallish chain (24 units) out of San Diego, has a new line of energy drinks, and there are also new beverages at Bad Daddy’s Burger Bar, Buffalo’s Café, Gong Cha, Häagen-Dazs, Juice it Up!, Main Event, Native Grill & Wings, Ninety Nine Restaurant & Pub, Potbelly, Taco Cabana, and Topgolf. Summer just started with a bang, so the lineup of new beverages shouldn’t be much of a shocker, but keep an eye out in the mocktail space. There’s a lot going on in the world of soft drinks dressed up as cocktails: Put sugar on the rim, charge $3 more. What else? &Pizza has a new dessert, Insomnia Cookies has a new ice cream (and also cookies), Marble Slab Creamery is swirling existing flavors together for a colorful treat, Nick the Greek is enrobing its tart yogurt in chocolate, and 16 Handles is making fun of the fact that McDonald’s soft-serve machines are so frequently broken by offering a frozen yogurt it says tastes like French fries. Crisp & Green has wraps, Qdoba has a spicy new steak, Red Robin has a giant Olympics-themed burger, Taziki’s has a lamb burger, Honeygrow is reprising its summertime crab stir-fry, Sunny Street Café has a bunch of new pancakes, and Velvet Taco’s Weekly Taco Feature is made with mushrooms and asparagus.   Contact Bret Thorn at bret.thorn@informa.com  &-pizza-cinna-knots.jpg Type Image Caption Credits Gating level anonymous user DataTable subpages Media Image Gallery Slide description: &Pizza Cinna-Knots: Dough balls baked with cinnamon sugar, drizzled with vanilla icing and dusted with powdered sugar, $5 Availability: Currently in the Washington, D.C., area with plans to roll them out systemwide Image Alt Text: &-pizza-cinna-knots.jpgGallery Slide Headline: Published:  bad-daddys-burger-bar-burgers-1.jpg Type Image Caption Credits Gating level anonymous user DataTable subpages Media Image Gallery Slide description: Bad Daddy’s Burger Bar Classic Smashburger: Seasoned smashed beef patty, American cheese, red onion, and “Sidekick Slaw” (iceberg lettuce in burger sauce) on a toasted brioche bun, $8.50; extra patties available for $3 each Steakhouse Smashburger: Seasoned smashed beef patty, cheddar cheese, shredded lettuce, and two onion rings marinated in A.1. steak sauce on a toasted brioche bun, $8.95 Tiki Torch Mocktail: Pineapple and lime juices, strawberry habanero syrup, Peach Reál syrup, and soda, $7 Island Dream: Cazadores reposado tequila, RumHaven coconut rum, Strawberry and  Pineapple Reál syrups, pineapple, and lime soda, $12 Castaway Punch: Bulleit bourbon, Sailor Jerry spiced rum, Pineapple Reál syrup, pineapple sour mix, and bitters, $13 Strawberry Shortcake Shake: Ice cream spun with sweetened strawberries and shortcake and topped with whipped cream, $6.95 Availability: Through Aug. 16 Image Alt Text: bad-daddys-burger-bar-burgers-1.jpgGallery Slide Headline: Published:  better-buzz-energy-drinks.jpg Type Image Caption Credits Gating level anonymous user DataTable subpages Media Image Gallery Slide description: Better Buzz Coffee Roasters Original Buzz Energy Drink: The chain’s first energy drink, containing 110mg of caffeine, slightly more than the average cup of coffee, sold in a can, $3.99 Berry Pomegranate Buzz Energy Drink: A canned energy drink with ripe berry and pomegranate flavors, $3.99 Fruit Blast Buzz Energy Drink: A canned energy drink with tropical and citrus flavors, $3.99 Burstin’ Blue Raspberry: Original Buzz Energy Drink with blue raspberry, coconut, and lime topped with popping can

Menu Tracker: New items from Pizza Hut, Panera, and Subway

Plus innovation at &Pizza, Bad Daddy’s Burger Bar, Better Buzz Coffee Roasters, Buffalo’s Café, Crisp & Green, Gong Cha, Häagen-Dazs, Honeygrow, Insomnia Cookies, Juice it Up!, Main Event, Marble Slab Creamery , Marco’s Pizza, Native Grill & Wings, Nick the Greek, Ninety Nine Restaurant & Pub, Potbelly, Qdoba, Red Robin Gourmet Burgers & Brews, 16 Handles, Sunny Street Cafe, Taco Cabana, Taziki’s Mediterranean Cafe, Topgolf, and Velvet Taco

Pizza Hut is returning to its thin-crust roots with a somewhat trending pie type: Chicago tavern-style. Perhaps not as well-known as that city’s deep-dish pizza, tavern-style is more widely consumed there, because you just can’t eat deep-dish that often. 

Marco’s Pizza has new spicy pizza, among other chile-spiked items.

Subway has new lightish, less expansive savory snacks that it’s calling Dippers, and Panera has a new beverage line.

Better Buzz Coffee Roasters, a smallish chain (24 units) out of San Diego, has a new line of energy drinks, and there are also new beverages at Bad Daddy’s Burger Bar, Buffalo’s Café, Gong Cha, Häagen-Dazs, Juice it Up!, Main Event, Native Grill & Wings, Ninety Nine Restaurant & Pub, Potbelly, Taco Cabana, and Topgolf.

Summer just started with a bang, so the lineup of new beverages shouldn’t be much of a shocker, but keep an eye out in the mocktail space. There’s a lot going on in the world of soft drinks dressed up as cocktails: Put sugar on the rim, charge $3 more.

What else? &Pizza has a new dessert, Insomnia Cookies has a new ice cream (and also cookies), Marble Slab Creamery is swirling existing flavors together for a colorful treat, Nick the Greek is enrobing its tart yogurt in chocolate, and 16 Handles is making fun of the fact that McDonald’s soft-serve machines are so frequently broken by offering a frozen yogurt it says tastes like French fries.

Crisp & Green has wraps, Qdoba has a spicy new steak, Red Robin has a giant Olympics-themed burger, Taziki’s has a lamb burger, Honeygrow is reprising its summertime crab stir-fry, Sunny Street Café has a bunch of new pancakes, and Velvet Taco’s Weekly Taco Feature is made with mushrooms and asparagus.

 

Contact Bret Thorn at bret.thorn@informa.com