Welcome to First Bite, a Nation’s Restaurant News podcast, your daily source of news from NRN hosted by Holly Petre.
Today, we’re talking about Burger King’s latest plant-based menu item.
There’s a new plant-based player in the game: Burger King. The quick-service restaurant chain has added a new chicken sandwich to its lineup, this time made of an Impossible patty. Adding to the chain’s line of Impossible products that already includes the Impossible Whopper and nuggets, this new chicken sandwich also joins the chicken sandwich wars that chains have been waging for the last few years since the release of the Popeyes chicken sandwich. But now we also have the plant-based wars with dozens of chains competing to be the first national plant-based chain. Will the big QSR players overtake the market with their own plant-based offerings?
Senior editor Ron Ruggless has more on the story.
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