Category: Fast Food News

If you live in Columbus, Ohio; Greensboro, North Carolina; or Wichita, Kansas, you can graze on a new salad Wendy’s is testing. Their Power Mediterranean Chicken Salad features grilled chicken, feta cheese, Mediterranean hummus, light balsamic vinaigrette, and a sun-dried tomato quinoa blend on a bed of spring mix greens and iceberg and romaine lettuce.

What’s a sun-dried tomato quinoa blend? Besides being something that’s extremely foreign in many fast food kitchens, it’s a combination of red bell peppers, green zucchini, yellow squash, garbanzo beans, great northern beans, brown rice, red quinoa, white quinoa, and sun-dried tomatoes.

The salad has 430 calories, 14 grams of fat, 4 grams of saturated fat, 115 milligrams of cholesterol, 1220 milligrams of sodium, 38 grams of carbohydrates, 18 grams of sugar, 8 grams of fiber, and 39 grams of protein.

If you’ve tried it, let us know what you think of it in the comments.

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Sbarro’s latest pizza is inspired by the classic Italian sausage sub.

Available for a limited time, Sbarro’s Classic Italian Sausage & Peppers Pizza features a Sicilian sauce and an end crust sprinkled with sesame seeds to imitate the Italian sausage sub’s bread. The pizza is topped with roasted onions and peppers, sliced Italian sausage, 100% whole milk mozzarella and romano cheese.

The new pizza is available through January 4.

If you’ve tried it, let us know what you think of it in the comments.

(Image via Sbarro)

If you live in Sacramento, California; Providence, Rhode Island; or Chattanooga…um, (uses Google) Tennessee (sorry, Tennesseans, I suck at geography), you are one of the few people right now who can wrap their mouths around Wendy’s Green Chile Quesoburger.

The test item features a 100 percent beef patty, spicy poblano queso sauce, shredded cheddar cheese, salsa verde, three strips of Applewood smoked bacon, and red onion slices on a toasted premium bun. The burger has 550 calories, 32 grams of fat, 14 grams of saturated fat, 1.5 grams of trans fat, 1130 milligrams of sodium, 35 grams of carbohydrates, 2 grams of fiber, and 34 grams of protein.

Wendy’s is also offering only in those cities a Queso Baked Potato that takes the salsa verde and poblano queso sauce and puts its on a baked potato with shredded cheddar cheese. The baked potato variation has 400 calories, 10 grams of fat, 5 grams of saturated fat, 25 milligrams of cholesterol, 540 milligrams of sodium, 66 grams of carbohydrates, 7 grams of fiber, and 13 grams of protein.

If you’ve tried either one, let us know what you think of it in the comments.

(Image via Wendy’s website.)

Three new dishes, two returning ones (Build Your Own Holiday Slam and Holiday Turkey & Dressing Dinner), and one new dessert are on Denny’s limited time Tastes of the Holidays menu.

The new Rudolph Pancake Breakfast is inspired by the lovable red-nosed reindeer. It features two pancakes topped with turkey bacon antlers, whipped cream, chocolate eyes, and a chocolate nose. It’s also served with two eggs and hash browns. The entree has 940 calories, 58 grams of fat, 14 grams of saturated fat, 1760 milligrams of sodium, 71 grams of carbohydrates, 3 grams of fiber, 22 grams of sugar, and 27 grams of protein.

Next up is the new Pumpkin Pecan Pie Pancake Breakfast, which is made up of pumpkin pancakes with glazed pecans and drizzled with pecan pie sauce. It also comes with two eggs, hash browns, and your choice of two bacon strips or sausage links. The meal with bacon has 1100 calories, 54 grams of fat, 12 grams of saturated fat, 2320 milligrams of sodium, 124 grams of carbohydrates, 5 grams of fiber, 45 grams of sugar, and 28 grams of protein.

The last new dish is the Holiday Harvest Skillet. It features a gouda-apple chicken sausage on a bed of seasoned red-skinned potatoes, sautéed mushrooms, grape tomatoes, fire-roasted bell peppers, and onions that are topped with an Italian cheese blend. The entree also comes with two eggs. It has 900 calories, 64 grams of fat, 18 grams of saturated fat, 1800 milligrams of sodium, 40 grams of carbohydrates, 6 grams of fiber, 6 grams of sugar, and 42 grams of protein.

Finally, there the new Santa’s Milk & Cookies Shake, which is made up of vanilla ice cream blended with sugar cookies and topped with whipped cream and more cookie crumbles. The shake has 880 calories, 45 grams of fat, 24 grams of saturated fat, 310 milligrams of sodium, 109 grams of carbohydrates, 82 grams of sugar, and 12 grams of protein.

If you’ve tried any of them, let us know what you think of it in the comments.

(Images via Denny’s)

The Burger King A.1. Halloween Whopper was supposed to be around until, you know, Halloween, but it appears that perhaps due due…I mean, due to issues with what happened after folks ate the burger, it has been removed from their menu and replaced with the Extra Long Sriracha Cheeseburger.

BK’s latest Extra Long variation features two flame-grilled 100 percent beef patties, melted American cheese, iceberg lettuce, onions, and a spicy Sriracha-flavored sauce on a toasted hoagie bun. It’s also part of BK’s 2 for $5 menu.

The burger has 480 calories, 23 grams of fat, 11 grams of saturated fat, 1.5 grams of trans fat, 80 milligrams of cholesterol, 1210 milligrams of sodium, 45 grams of carbohydrates, 7 grams of sugar, and 26 grams of protein.

If you’ve tried it, let us know what you think of it in the comments.

(Image via Burger King’s website)