Is cranberry-orange the new holiday flavor? Starbucks seems to think so given its latest seasonal lineup, and it’s pretty smart about those sorts of things. Then again the Oleato olive-oil-and-coffee drinks it rolled out last year are being phased out this month.
Nobody’s perfect.
Peet’s Coffee is betting on blood orange, as is Carl’s Jr., though not in coffee.
Other coffeehouse chains have their own seasonal lineups, including Devoción Coffee, a five-unit chain based in New York City that is combining rosemary and cinnamon with coffee.
There are also new options from Bad Ass Coffee of Hawaii, Caribou Coffee, Dunkin’, Dutch Bros., HTeaO, Philz Coffee, Scooter’s Coffee, Tim Hortons, and Ziggi’s Coffee
There are new shakes from Next Level Burger, Veggie Grill by Next Level, Shake Shack, Shipley Do-Nuts, Slim Chickens, Whataburger, and Sonic Drive-In, which also has some new dirty soda options.
Bonefish Grill has new cocktails tied to the release in movie theaters this month of Wicked.
There are big new seasonal menus at Emmy Squared Pizza and North Italia, and Fogo de Chão has two new entrées that guests can buy on top of its all-you-can-eat “Churrasco Experience.”
Salt & Straw has a hole lineup of ice creams meant to replicate Thanksgiving dinner, but all in ice cream form, and there are also new frozen options from Cold Stone Creamery.
Smaller seasonal selections are on offer from Cinnaholic, Tous Les Jours, and Yogurtland.
Hungry Howie’s has chicken & waffles pizza.
Taco Bell is offering new frozen drinks nationally as well as a bunch of regional specials, California Pizza Kitchen has a flight of miniature butter cakes, Charleys Cheesesteak & Wings has a new rub for its rings and a summery sounding lemonade, and Tropical Smoothie Cafe has some Hawaiian-themed specials.
Just Salad has a new collab with influencer Justine Doiron.
Miguel’s Jr. is offering tamales, as it generally does at this time of year, and Jersey Mike’s Subs is offering pastrami, which is unusual for it.
IHOP’s pancake of the month is maple bacon, and Velvet Taco’s Weekly Taco Feature is inspired by chicken Parmigiana.
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