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Shake Shack offering summertime merchShake Shack offering summertime merch

A new tote T-shirt and water bottle are available at the restaurant chain’s shopping web site

Bret Thorn, Senior Food Editor

June 18, 2024

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Models wearing Shake Shack's T-shirt, carrying the new tote, and drinking from the water bottleShake Shack

Shake Shack has launched a three-item merch collection for the summer now available for pre-order on its shopping web site.

The new lineup includes a $55 tote with the words “Crinkle Cuts” on it, reflecting the style of the fast-casual chain’s fries. It’s a 20-inch wide and 16-inch high thick cotton canvas bag with a small interior pocket embroidered with the words “For Your Fries Only.” It has 25-inch canvas handles.

Also available is a $45 T-shirt designed by artist Spencer Gabor, who, like Shake Shack, is based in New York City. The 100% cotton shirt has “Shake Shack” printed on the front with a screen-printed graphic on the back.

And finally the chain of some 530 locations worldwide is selling a $38 Nalgene water bottle with a  pack of four stickers to decorate it. The 32-ounce wide-mouth bottle is made from 50% waste plastic, is dishwasher safe, and free of Bisphenol A (BPA), which has been linked to a variety of health issues.

These limited-time items join Shake Shack’s existing clothing line, launched last November, of T-shirts, hoodies, sweats, hats, and a baby onesie.

This merch drop follows last summer’s very limited offering, at just 10 locations nationwide for two days, of a picnic basket filled with a variety of vegetarian items along with a blanket, sunscreen, frisbee, playing cards, Bluetooth speaker, bamboo dishware and utensils, and custom cloth napkins.

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This summer is seeing a wide range of merch from limited-service chains, including Arby’s, Sonic Drive-In, and Dunkin, all owned by Atlanta-based Inspire Brands, and KFC, which is part of Yum Brands.

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Bret Thorn

Senior Food Editor, Nation's Restaurant News

Senior Food & Beverage Editor

Bret Thorn is senior food & beverage editor of Nation’s Restaurant News and Restaurant Hospitality.

Hi is responsible for spotting and reporting on F&B trends across the country for both publications. 

He is the co-host of a podcast, Menu Talk with Pat and Bret, which features interviews with chefs, food & beverage authorities, and other experts in foodservice operations.

From 2005 to 2008 he also wrote the Kitchen Dish column for The New York Sun, covering restaurant openings and chefs’ career moves in New York City.

He joined Nation’s Restaurant News in 1999 after spending about five years in Thailand, where he wrote articles about business, banking and finance as well as restaurant reviews and food columns for Manager magazine and Asia Times newspaper. He joined Restaurant Hospitality’s staff in 2016 while retaining his position at NRN. 

A magna cum laude graduate of Tufts University in Medford, Mass., with a bachelor’s degree in history, and a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Thorn also studied traditional French cooking at Le Cordon Bleu Ecole de Cuisine in Paris. He spent his junior year of college in China, studying Chinese language, history and culture for a semester each at Nanjing University and Beijing University. While in Beijing, he also worked for ABC News during the protests and ultimate crackdown in and around Tiananmen Square in 1989.

Thorn’s monthly column in Nation’s Restaurant News won the 2006 Jesse H. Neal National Business Journalism Award for best staff-written editorial or opinion column.

He served as president of the International Foodservice Editorial Council, or IFEC, in 2005.

Thorn wrote the entry on comfort food in the Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America, 2nd edition, published in 2012. He also wrote a history of plated desserts for the Oxford Companion to Sugar and Sweets, published in 2015.

He was inducted into the Disciples d’Escoffier in 2014.

A Colorado native originally from Denver, Thorn lives in Brooklyn, N.Y.

Bret Thorn’s areas of expertise include food and beverage trends in restaurants, French cuisine, the cuisines of Asia in general and Thailand in particular, restaurant operations and service trends. 

Bret Thorn’s Experience: 

Nation’s Restaurant News, food & beverage editor, 1999-Present
New York Sun, columnist, 2005-2008 
Asia Times, sub editor, 1995-1997
Manager magazine, senior editor and restaurant critic, 1992-1997
ABC News, runner, May-July, 1989

Education:
Tufts University, BA in history, 1990
Peking University, studied Chinese language, spring, 1989
Nanjing University, studied Chinese language and culture, fall, 1988 
Le Cordon Bleu Ecole de Cuisine, Cértificat Elémentaire, 1986

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