'Health' magazine rates fast-food chains

From KVUE, March 24, 2008...

Eating on the go and on a budget does not have to be a diet disaster. Health magazine surveyed the nation's 100 biggest grab-and-go chains and, with help from a panel of experts, found 10 that are surprisingly good for you. The chains were scored on such factors as the use of healthy fats and preparations, healthy sodium counts in entrees, availability of nutrition information and the use of organic produce. For the full story, visit http://www.health.com/.

Health magazine's ten healty fast food restaurants

1. Panera Bread
2. Jason's Deli
3. Au Bon Pain
4. Noodles and Company
5. Corner Bakery Café
6. Chipotle
7. Atlanta Bread
8. McDonald's
9. Einstein Bros. Bagels
10. Taco Del Mar

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News On The Fast Food Front

Pizza Hut preparing pans of pasta for delivery...

Pizza Hut wants folks to start thinking of it also as something a tad more squishy: Pasta Hut. The nation's largest pizza chain on Tuesday unveils plans to start delivering pasta on April 6 -- something no pizza chain does nationally. The move comes as sales in the $37 billion pizza business are slowing with the overall economy.

http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/food/2008-03-25-pasta-hut_N.htm

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LOUISVILLE (AP) -- What in the name of Colonel Harland Sanders is going on at KFC? The chain built by his secret recipe for fried chicken is about to give equal billing to, gulp, grilled chicken.

Kentucky Fried Chicken customers will be greeted eventually by lighted "Now Grilling" signs, starting in coming weeks in select U.S. cities. Storefront signs will be altered to promote the new product -- called Kentucky Grilled Chicken. Even the brand's ubiquitous chicken buckets will get a makeover.

Louisville-based KFC, a subsidiary of Yum Brands (YUM), hopes grilled chicken will lure back health-conscious consumers who dropped fried chicken from their diets, or cut back on indulging. KFC announced last year that fried chicken at all its U.S. restaurants had zero grams of trans fat per serving after the chain switched cooking oils.

http://www.usatoday.com/money/companies/2008-03-23-kfc_N.htm