Tag: food chain

  • Punjab Food Authority burns 200 kg dead meat in Lahore

    Punjab Food Authority burns 200 kg dead meat in Lahore

    Following a seizure during an operation in the provincial metropolis on Thursday, the Punjab Food Authority (PFA) has burned 200 kilogrammes of dead animal meat at PAMCO Furnace in accordance with environmental policy.

    As the Provincial Food Act was violated, the PFA reported the offender, Salik Ali (supplier), to the local police station.

    According to PFA Director General Shoaib Khan Jadoon, a raid was conducted against the supplier in Bakar Mandi after receiving a tipoff, and a man was caught in the act. He claimed that five maunds of ill and subpar chicken had been transported into the city on a vehicle (SAB-1493) for distribution to various neighbourhood fast food joints and eateries.

    According to PFA DG, using dead meat is unhealthy and unfit for human consumption. He issued a warning to butchers and meat suppliers, telling them to only sell the meat of healthy animals.

    In other news, the PFA ceased a well-known confectionery group’s production in Lahore on Friday due to the use of expired ingredients in the making of sweets.

    When PFA agents raided a factory that made sweets and pastries, they caught the employees in the act of making candies using semolina that had been infested with insects and expired, inferior food colours. During the raid, the team also noticed the lack of cleanliness.

  • McDonald’s re-opens in Russia with a different name

    McDonald’s re-opens in Russia with a different name

    McDonald’s restaurants in Russia have reopened under a new identity. The name of the restaurant is now Vkusno & tochka (“Tasty and that’s it”). The first 15 locations of the new Russian fast-food business that bought out McDonald’s opened in Moscow on Sunday.

    “Our goal is that our guests do not notice a difference either in quality or ambience,” said Oleg Paroev, chief executive of Vkusno & tochka.

    “We had to remove some products from the menu because they refer directly to McDonald’s, such as the McFlurry and Big Mac,” Paroyev said.

    Prices have risen “slightly” due to the inflation that has hit Russia hard after Western countries imposed sanctions, but they remain “reasonable”, he added.

    The menu items are similar to what McDonald’s sells – including chicken nuggets, fish burgers, and fruit pies, but with different packaging.

    McDonald’s in May announced that after more than 30 years of operations in the country, it will exit the Russian market. The decision was taken due to the humanitarian crisis caused by the war in Ukraine.

  • KFC suspends its ‘Finger Lickin’ Good’ slogan due to COVID-19

    KFC suspends its ‘Finger Lickin’ Good’ slogan due to COVID-19

    KFC has announced it will be suspending its slogan “It’s Finger Lickin’ Good” due to coronavirus. The food chain has used the slogan for more than six decades but is now skipping it because of the pandemic.

    The fastfood chain, in a statement, on Monday said that it would not be using the slogan for the first time in 64 years because it “doesn’t quite feel right”.

    “We find ourselves in a unique situation – having an iconic slogan that doesn’t quite fit in the current environment,” Catherine Tan-Gillespie, global chief marketing officer at KFC said.

    The menu isn’t changing and the company said the slogan will return when the “time is right.”

    The decision comes after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) advised people not to touch their eyes, nose and mouth amid the pandemic.

    In a YouTube video posted on the company’s UK and Ireland account, KFC blurred ‘finger lickin’ on old billboards and buckets of chicken after the announcement.

    “That thing we always say? Ignore it. For now,” the video reads.