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Miami Herald
a day ago
- Business
- Miami Herald
Taco Bell reveals new menu item with dream partner
Tacos are Taco Bell's best-selling products, but the chain's latest menu launch could soon claim that sweet spot. Despite a challenging economic climate marked by a slowdown in consumer spending and increased competition in the food industry, Taco Bell continues to outperform its rivals. Don't miss the move: Subscribe to TheStreet's free daily newsletter The fast-food chain has defied all odds by prioritizing innovation and consistently delivering value to its customers. This approach helped its U.S. sales grow 11% during the first quarter of fiscal 2025. Related: Taco Bell reveals 30 new menu items launching in 2025 To continue banking on this strategy, Taco Bell has been actively developing new menu items that keep it relevant among consumers, generate buzz, and drive traffic to its restaurants. Early last year, Yum! Brands' (YUM) Taco Bell hosted the Live Más Live Event in Las Vegas to celebrate the launch of over 30 new menu items and brand partnerships coming to its U.S. restaurants in 2025. The upcoming menu additions include food, beverages, sauces, and desserts, as well as exciting collaborations. While Taco Bell is best known for its crunchy tacos and grilled burritos, it has responded to evolving consumer trends by expanding into new categories, particularly beverages and sweet treats. Related: Taco Bell's new menu bets big on value, lower prices And despite those categories not being its primary focus, the fast-food chain has never ignored them. Taco Bell and Cinnabon have had a longstanding partnership since 2013, when they introduced the Cinnabon Delights. These are warm donut holes filled with Cinnabon's cream cheese frosting and covered in cinnamon sugar. Now, Taco Bell is ready to step up its dessert game by unveiling another option many fans might consider a delightful upgrade to a beloved favorite. Taco Bell is finally releasing the new Dulce de Leche Cinnabon Delights for a limited time. This new menu addition is very similar to the original Cinnabon Delights, but upgraded with a Dulce de Leche filling and coating of salted caramel sugar. More Food News: Popular Mexican restaurant chain expands to new marketBurger King menu adds wild kids' meal toys parents will want tooPopular chicken chain is begging customers to give it another chance The new Dulce de Leche Cinnabon Delights will be available at all participating Taco Bell locations nationwide starting July 31. They can be ordered in-store, via the Taco Bell app, or online, and come in packs of two and 12. To encourage people to try this latest sweet menu addition, customers can get a two-pack of Dulce de Leche Cinnabon Delights for $1 when ordering on the Uber Eats app from July 31 through August 6. Related: Veteran fund manager unveils eye-popping S&P 500 forecast The Arena Media Brands, LLC THESTREET is a registered trademark of TheStreet, Inc.
Eater
15-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Eater
I Tried the Brand New Fast Food Dessert Chain That Puts Ice Cream on Cinnabons
is a Portland, Oregon-based writer from Los Angeles. She has been writing about food (with a heavy focus on beverages) since 2016, and has previously served as an online editor at Barista Magazine and the associate editor at Imbibe Magazine. One of the world's first Cinnabon Swirls is deep in the Portland suburb of Hillsboro, wedged between a Jamba Juice and a Shake Shack in a sparkly new shopping center in a new housing development called Reed's Crossing. Cinnabon Swirl is a corporate chimera dreamed up by Carvel and Cinnabon's parent company, GoTo Foods, which owns other '90s shopping mall staples like the aforementioned Jamba Juice, plus Auntie Anne's. According to Food & Wine, Carvel plans to open 30 Cinnabon Swirls in the U.S. by year's end. Cinnabon's executive chef Jennifer Holwill told the magazine the 'strategy that just made sense for the two iconic chains,' since the two brands already have spaces that house both businesses. Putting ice cream on a Cinnabon cinnamon roll is a 'no-brainer,' according to Holwill. If you're someone who gravitated towards the fumes that Cinnabon pumped out of its bakery across the hall from the Sbarros Pizza back in middle school, Cinnabon Swirl might intrigue you. Employees are baking cinnamon rolls on an hourly basis, slathering scoops of frosting onto the iconic gooey dough balls just after they leaving the commercial ovens. Baking trays full of these cinnamon rolls greet you upon entry, icing dripping down their sides, cookie sheets charred with cinnamon sugar crust. If you get a Cinnabon Swirl Sundae, you can top one of these rolls with soft serve (there are vanilla, chocolate, cold brew, and birthday cake flavors) plus a syrup of your choice. If that sounds too normal for you, there's always the 'Bonini.' That's where a cinnamon roll gets cut in half and filled with a puck of vanilla ice cream specifically manufactured for the brand's signature masterpiece. After tucking the ice cream between the two Cinnabon halves, employees stuff the sandwich into a custom-sized waffle iron and press it together to toast. (It is 1,000 calories, in case you were wondering.) In the spirit of exploration, I ordered a Bonini. While the ice cream filling stayed surprisingly intact, this goopy monstrosity was hard to look at (my brother said it looked like a brain from the photo I sent him) and harder to pick up. The waffle iron process melts the cinnamon sugar coating into a sticky syrup that coated my hands the moment I touched it. It kind of felt like picking up an overstuffed burger and worrying the condiments could fall out at any moment. And once I did find a way to pick it up, I was unsure of where to begin eating. It's so big that my mouth couldn't fit around the whole thing; I started eating the top half of the bun, trying to ration smaller and smaller portions of the ice cream with each bite, as it became clear that the ratio of Cinnabon to ice cream was 3:1. A sticky mess, the Bonini is everything I've always disliked about an American cinnamon roll: It's covered in sugary cinnamon goop, and yet somehow the dough is still dry. The ice cream itself was a little plain compared to the soft serves that are available at Cinnabon Swirl. That's a shame, because the birthday cake and cold brew soft serve flavors were actually quite delicious without sending me into a sugar-induced coma. Decadently creamy and subtly flavored, they both invoked a sense of nostalgia for flavors that other millennials may have grown up with — especially the yellow batter of a signature 2000s birthday cake topped with Duncan Hines fudge frosting. Cinnabon Swirl is emphatically not for us pastry snobs. If you're the type of person who will wait half an hour in line for the latest limited-edition Jinju croissant, under no circumstances should you drive 30 miles round trip to get a Bonini. But it fits the suburban space. During my visit, the place was stuffed with patrons — mostly young families or high school kids — ordering sundaes, soft serves, and Boninis, and grabbing ready-made Carvel ice cream cakes alongside four-pack mega cinnamon rolls from the takeaway fridges. The service was friendly and prices were under $8 for most items, a pretty good deal these days, especially on a per-calorie basis. Call it nostalgic, corporate America at its finest, recession signaling. Maybe it's all of the above. Some of us are obsessed with croissant layers; others evidently hunger for an ice cream Cinnabon sandwich. The future of dessert in America is as uncertain as this economy.
SoraNews24
25-06-2025
- Entertainment
- SoraNews24
What did our Japanese reporter think of his first visit to American cinnamon roll chain Cinnabon?
Takuya knew that his visit was destined to be sweet, but exactly how sweet…? Our Japanese-language writer Takuya Inaba has been enjoying the American TV show Adam Eats the 80's (2022), in which the host devours anything hot in the 1980s with a heaping side dose of nostalgia. In particular, the episode where he eats a Cinnabon cinnamon roll piqued Takuya's interest. He could almost sense the overly sweet sugar shock of the roll through his TV screen. He decided the only way to quench his curiosity was to visit Cinnabon and try one of the famous pastries for the first time. ▼ Founded in Washington State in 1985, Cinnabon is commonly found at shopping malls across the U.S., where its presence is revealed by the heavenly wafting scent of cinnamon on the air. Luckily for Takuya, Cinnabon exists in a number of locations throughout Japan, often paired with Seattle's Best Coffee. He promptly headed to the nearest Futako-Tamagawa Rise Shopping Center location in Setagaya Ward, Tokyo. His excitement intensified when he entered the store and saw rows of showy cinnamon rolls. It was as if his American '80s food dream were coming true right before his eyes. Takuya started off with the Cinnabon Classic for 540 yen (US$3.69). It was a thing of beauty, with the cream cheese frosting flowing over the sides of the pastry. It wasn't until he held it in his hand that he realized just how enormous it was. He continued to watch in amazement as the frosting dripped dangerously lower. His fingers couldn't hold it for long, though, because it was still piping hot. With premonitions of a scalded tongue, he decided the safest way to consume his prize was to cut it open to allow some steam to escape. The inside was unexpectedly pretty, with layers of the roll clearly visible in a spiraling pattern. Takuya finally took a bite and was spellbound by its delicious sweetness. If he had to describe the taste in words, he would go with 'THE American' (verbatim). Curiously, there wasn't a heavy aftertaste, and the dough was plenty springy and soft. He also appreciated the fact that the cinnamon flavor wasn't too strong, but added just the right balance of spice to stimulate his appetite. Despite its size, Takuya still had plenty of room, so he next decided to spring for a convenient cup version called Roll on the Go (480 yen). This one featured a cinnamon roll pre-cut into bite-sized pieces in a paper cup. He appreciated the fact that his fingers didn't have to get sticky while eating this one. Even that addition didn't leave Takuya fully satiated, so he peeked at the menu to see what kinds of special flavors there were. First, the Caramel Pecanbon (600 yen regular/420 yen mini size) was a done deal. It looked so pretty with its flowing caramel frosting and pecan nut topping. Once he took a bite, he could only laugh because it felt like every cell in his body had been jolted awake from the sheer sweetness of it all. People could probably get addicted to this exact taste. Second, the Red Cherrybon (620 yen regular size/450 yen mini size) as his last order was a no-brainer. He thought it looked somewhat seductive with its drizzling of deep crimson cherry sauce. It also turned out to be his personal favorite, with the sour cherry flavor causing him to lose all remaining sense of sanity until he had devoured the whole thing. Luckily, coffee paired very well with all of the sweetness and helped settle his stomach at the end of this gastronomic adventure. We haven't gotten word yet if Takuya's still recovering from his Cinnabon-induced food coma, but whenever he wakes up, he can probably raise his blood sugar again through Lawson's current double-sized food offerings. Sweet, sweet dreams, Takuya! All images © SoraNews24 ● Want to hear about SoraNews24's latest articles as soon as they're published? Follow us on Facebook and Twitter! [ Read in Japanese ]
Argaam
21-06-2025
- Business
- Argaam
Americana mulls acquisition of Five Guys, Cinnabon operator Cravia
Americana Restaurants International PLC studies the acquisition of Cravia, the Middle East operator of Five Guys, and Cinnabon, in a step that aims to enhance its franchise network in the restaurant sector. Talks are still in early stage, Bloomberg reported, citing sources with knowledge of the matter.
Arabian Business
20-06-2025
- Business
- Arabian Business
Americana in talks to acquire Five Guys in the region: reports
Americana Restaurants International, the largest out-of-home dining and quick service restaurant operator in the Middle East and North Africa and Kazakhstan with a portfolio that includes brands like KFC, Pizza Hut, Hardee's, Krispy Kreme, Wimpy and Costa Coffee, is reportedly considering adding Five Guys, Cinnabon and Seattle's Best Coffee to that list. Bloomberg has reported, with information from people familiar with the matter, that Americana is in talks to acquire Cravia Inc. from Fajr Capital, the private equity company that has owned Cravia since 2016. Talks are at an early stage, and there is no certainty a deal will be reached, the sources told Bloomberg, which could not get a response from Americana, while Fajr declined to comment. Americana eyes Five Guys acquisition Americana declared a revenue growth of 16.2 per cent for the first quarter of 2025, compared to the same period last year, with like-for-like sales improvements and the expansion of the store network. It reported an EBITDA of $121.7m, an increase of 17.4 per cent and net profit attributable to shareholders was $32.6m, a 16.5 per cent YoY increase. The company generated $33.5 million in Free Cash Flow during the quarter, while maintaining a strong balance sheet with no leverage and healthy cash reserves. Cravia has 78 outlets and more than 2,000 employees. In addition to Five Guys and Cinnabon, it operates or manages brands like Zaatar W Zeit, Seattle's Best Coffee and Carvel.
