
Smoothie chain
Jamba Juice is teaming up with
Organic To Go to
test out a new line of organic food products. In an effort to boost sales, Jamba Juice is considering adding Organic To Go branded items — grab and go salads, sandwiches, wraps, cookies, and yogurt parfaits — to their already existing menu of classic fruit smoothies. The testing will take place in three West Coast stores in Los Angeles and Orange County, CA, and Bellevue, WA.

Move over, Jared.
Subway's got a new guy in town, and his name is
Michael Phelps. The mega-medal Olympian continues to score endorsements faster than his swimming records.

Number two fast food chain
Burger King has been testing
a new line of premium items. This includes ribs and thicker burgers, made with grills, batch broilers, and other costly new kitchen equipment.
The fast food chain's decision to move in the direction of higher-price items comes at a time when the
casual restaurant industry is struggling.

Last Thursday, frozen yogurt chain
Red Mango announced that it would be partnering with pomegranate juice pioneer,
POM Wonderful, to debut its first
new flavor, Pomegranate by POM Wonderful.
But someone else had the same idea: Red Mango's biggest rival, cult favorite
Pinkberry.
New York magazine's food blog first reported that the rival chain's pomegranate flavor is slated to hit stores Nov.

A recent UK poll indicates that Gordon Ramsay Holdings is the
most admired restaurant brand in Great Britain. The restaurant group of the famed chef and TV personality
Gordon Ramsay topped the list of restaurant chain operators in a survey by consulting firm
Allegra Strategies, beating
McDonald's, which ranked number three, by two spots.
Ramsay
owns 11 restaurants in the UK alone, plus
three pubs, as well dining spots in New York, Los Angeles, Prague, Versailles, Dubai, and Tokyo, among others.