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New Wendy’s Restaurant Design Prototype Coming To Kingston Next Month

Wendy’s has unveiled a new restaurant design prototype, and it’s coming to Kingston next month. A Wendy’s restaurant in Etobicoke is the first of the company’s four new restaurant designs that are currently being tested, and is the first Canadian concept store. The Kingston concept store is scheduled to open in December 2011, and is located at 17 Warne Crescent.

In addition to a modern, new, restaurant design and layout, the unit will also serve Redhead Roasters proprietary blend coffee and fresh baked goods including oatmeal bars, cookies, muffins and brownies. Also to be tested there are new service staff uniforms, new digital menu boards, and redesigned product packaging.

The new restaurant concept has been ‘in the works’ for the past three years, and is designed to deliver more open space, brighter dining rooms with bigger windows and a variety of seating options from booths to high tops to cozy chairs around a fireplace. The new concept is also equipped with free WiFi. Customers will be able to view baking and prep areas, reinforcing Wendy’s “food story.” The restaurant’s modern design will be complemented with natural colors, brick and wood materials and a bold use of red. A bright red center wall will celebrate Wendy’s heritage with a quote from the late founder Dave Thomas, “Quality is our recipe.”



Posted: November 15th, 2011 | Filed under: Cuisine | Tags: , , , , | No Comments »

Tim Hortons Testing Up-sized Cups In Kingston

For the next month, residents of Kingston, Ontario, will be one of a two-part Canadian test market for up-sized brews from the popular donut and coffee chain, Tim Hortons. Sudbury is the other test location.

Persons who order a ‘medium’, will find that they’re given this in a large-size cup, and persons who order a large, will be given what is normally an extra large. For persons who would normally order the extra large ( 20-oz. (591 mL)), they will now be presented with a giant-sized 24 oz. (710 mL) cup. The former small cuppa – 8 oz. (210 mL) – is no more. The cheapest hot Tim’s coffee in the two test towns is now a 10 oz. (296 mL) cup, for $1.33 (i.e. the price of what was ‘medium’ last week).

According to reports, the up-sized servings are meant “to test consumer preferences and that the trend we have seen has been to larger sizes.” There have been denials that the move is an attempt to match Canadian offerings with those at Tim Horton’s outlets in the United States (which sell coffee only in the larger sizes).



Posted: August 30th, 2011 | Filed under: Cuisine | Tags: , , , | No Comments »