Florida shoppers have a new reason to slow down before grabbing dinner from the freezer or snacks from the pantry. As grocery prices keep families watching every dollar, several recent food recalls are now hitting products sold in Florida or distributed nationwide, including frozen cheese bread, chips, mushrooms, sunflower seeds and chocolate snacks. Recalled frozen foods The biggest one to check first may be in the [...]

Pennsylvania has watched plenty of familiar food names disappear from its dining map, and the nostalgia hits even harder as classic restaurants keep disappearing at a furious pace. Some were mall staples. Some were road-trip stops. Others were the kind of places families went after church, Little League or a long day at the mall. Here are seven chains many Pennsylvanians still remember fondly. Chi-Chi's For many [...]

A well-known premium meat company known as the "King's butcher" has been saved, but the factory where it built its name is closing. For anyone following major food companies cutting jobs, this is the kind of story that shows how a brand can survive while a local workplace disappears. Donald Russell, a premium butcher founded near Balmoral in Aberdeenshire, Scotland in 1974, has closed its factory in Inverurie with 90 jobs [...]

Florida’s restaurant industry is continuing to feel the pressure of rising costs and weaker consumer spending, and now another major fast-food chain is quietly shutting down locations across the state. The closures are tied to the bankruptcy of one of the brand’s largest franchise operators, which oversees more than 100 restaurants throughout the Southeast. Multiple Florida locations have already gone dark as the company [...]

Florida is losing more than just another restaurant chain. It’s losing one of the few major dining brands that actually started there. Bahama Breeze, the Caribbean-themed casual dining chain founded in Orlando in 1996, has officially begun a full exit from Florida as parent company Darden Restaurants closes and converts the brand’s remaining locations. A Florida original disappears For years, Bahama Breeze felt [...]

Another major fast-food chain is quietly shrinking its footprint, and one state is feeling the impact more than most. As Wendy's moves forward with a plan to close 300+ underperforming restaurants nationwide this year, Texas has emerged as one of the biggest hotspots for location losses. Wendy’s closures nationwide The fast-food chain has announced plans to close hundreds of lower-performing locations across the United [...]