Tag: fast food

Fitch Ratings has downgraded Arcos Dorados Holdings Inc.'s, McDonald’s largest franchisee in the world in terms of systemwide sales and number of restaurants, Long-Term Foreign Currency Issuer Default Rating (IDR) and senior unsecured notes to 'BB' from 'BB+'. The Rating Outlook has been revised...

Fast food chains in Costa Rica have solid expansion plans inside and outside the Greater Metropolitan Area (GAM) for 2020 despite the many challenges of operating in the country. The national market is characterized by competition that is increasingly fueled by the emergence of delivery...

The growing tendency to order food through apps  for delivery is causing a decrease in profits, as restaurants must assume the cost of delivery commissions and sometimes those of additional promotions offered by the digital platforms, such as Uber Eats, Hugo App, Go Pato,...

Perhaps it was the squared patty of fresh, never frozen meat or the focus on baked potato rather than sliced, oil-slicked fries that did in Wendy's in Costa Rica after eight years in the country. We will never know. But despite the Costa Rica closing...

QSR Magazine just released its annual ranking of the top fast-food chains in the US, ranked by US systemwide sales in 2016. Of the top 50 ranked by QSR, 12 have operations in Costa Rica. Papa John's Papa John's arrived in Costa Rica in 2000 and currently...

Pollo Campero, with 20 years of operating in Costa Rica, will close its 11 restaurants. The announcement was made by the Corporación Multi Inversiones (CMI), on Tuesday, May 30, 2017. But the company is not leaving Costa Rica, it is shifting its focus to the...

Q BUSINESS - Popeyes and Dairy Queen plans to open four new locations in 2017, the first two in the first half of the year. In the case of Popeyes, one of the new locations will be in Cartago, the second location is still in...

TICO BULL – Waiting an appointment around Cariari, around lunch time and time to kill, decided to have a burger at Carl’s Jr.  This was my second time visiting a Carl’s,  the first when it first opened in downtown San Jose years ago. I am...

QCOSTARICA - Following rumours that Burger King would be back in Costa Rica, it is now a reality. The U.S. hamburger restaurant chain is back. The first restaurants (located in the San Jose area) will open next Tuesday, June 14. "El secreto ya no es secreto"...

QCOSTARICA - With Costa Rica the second "international market", Pizza Hut recently celebrated the opening of restaurant in the 100th country. And to celebrate the event Pizza Hut employees and several professional guides, hiked for six days to the top of Mt. Kilimanjaro to set...

QCOSTARICA - Fast food restaurants are being targeted by robbers, the proof of this is the number of robberies of fast food restaurants in the past five weeks: three. The most recent was on Sunday when two men hit at gunpoint the Papa John's in...

(QCOSTARICA) Popeye's restaurants has become a big hit with Costa Ricans, the franchisee opening this week its seventh location, in Santo Domingo de Heredia, with two more coming later this year. Virya Navarro, Popeye's marketing manager, said construction is underway at the Radial de Heredia...

QCOSTARICA - The McDonald's franchise that operates in Costa Rica,  Arcos Dorados, says it will not be affected by the global restructuring announced headquarters in the United States. The company told La Republica that it continues to grow in the country. "In Costa Rica this...