ARTICLES BY CANDICE CHOI/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Going with Splenda
NEW YORK - PepsiCo said it's dropping aspartame from Diet Pepsi in response to customer worries and replacing it with sucralose, another artificial sweetener commonly known as Splenda.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 9 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO
Unwrapping a plan
NEW YORK - McDonald's plans to unwrap a plan next month that it says will help reverse sales declines around the world.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 9 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO
Crusade for better pay
NEW YORK - The Fight for $15 campaign to win higher pay and a union for fast-food workers is expanding to represent a variety of low-wage workers and become more of a social justice movement.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 9 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO
Paychecks arching upward
NEW YORK - McDonald's said it's raising pay for workers at company-owned U.S. restaurants, making it the latest employer to sweeten worker incentives in an improving economy.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 9 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO
Heinz buys Kraft
NEW YORK - Some of the most familiar names in ketchup, pickles, cheese and hot dogs are set to come under the same roof.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 9 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO
Purer poultry
NEW YORK - McDonald's said it plans to require chicken suppliers to stop using antibiotics important to human medicine within two years.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 9 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO
I'm leavin' it
NEW YORK - McDonald's CEO Don Thompson is stepping down as the world's biggest hamburger chain fights to hold onto customers and transform its image.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 9 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO
The pasta-bilities were endless
NEW YORK - The "Never Ending Pasta Pass" card from Olive Garden not only promised weeks of unlimited pasta, but a look into why the chain is fighting to hold onto customers.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 10 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO
Pizza Hut testing 'skinny slice'
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 10 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AGO
Caffeine fix more costly
NEW YORK - Starbucks is raising prices on some of its drinks by 5 cents to 20 cents starting next week, and customers can also soon expect to pay $1 more for the packaged coffee it sells in supermarkets.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 10 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO
Chain reaction
NEW YORK - Darden is setting Red Lobster adrift, but betting that it can still turn around Olive Garden's fortunes.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 10 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO
