Last Call is The Takeout’s online watering hole where you can chat, share recipes, and use the comment section as an open thread. Here’s what we’ve been reading/watching/listening around the office today.
It’s something I hadn’t even really thought about until this Business Insider video pointed it out: The vast majority of fast-food logos are red-based. The educational (yet under-four-minute) video also outlines that there are reasons for that that go back thousands of years.
Millennials, your day may be done. Lest we forget, there’s a whole new burgeoning generation for marketers to freak out over: Generation Z. So twice a year, CNBC offers Piper Jaffray’s Taking Stock With Teens study. The most recent version, which just came out this week, contains some surprising factoids about the…
A few years ago, Chick-fil-A was a p.r. manager’s nightmare, battling boycotts after its Christian COO Dan T. Cathy made statements in opposition to same-sex marriage. But today, Forbes and BuzzFeedNews point to a new Technomic report that says “Chick-fil-A could leapfrog Wendy’s, Burger King and Taco Bell by as early…
America is fast food. In those two words we have synthesized our collective dietary philosophy to the core: Food, fast. Nevertheless, we seem to resist admitting that much of it is delicious—or at the least, animalistically pleasurable. Put in front of us a bowl of spring onion vichyssoise or a plate of Jack In The…
