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Food Court Quiz

Posted Sep 1st 2009 3:37PM by Slashfood Editor
Filed under: Fast Food, Quizzes

This Food Court Quiz will test your knowledge of mall food like Orange Julius, Sbarro, Auntie Anne's and much more.

Food Court Fare

After early trials showed that 20% of mall customers didn't like this ingredient, Cinnabon dropped it from their bun recipe:

Walnuts
Raisins
Peanuts
Oats

Four out of ten customers who walk into this food court stalwart include Orange Chicken in their order:

Great Wall
Wok 'N Roll
Panda Express
Asian Too

Which chain began as a stand-alone Brooklyn, NY deli?

Famous Original Ray's
Pizza Hut
Sbarro
Papa John's

Though the founders of Auntie Anne's experimented with various offerings, the menu was eventually pared down to lemonade, and which signature item?

Popcorn
Corn dogs
Soft pretzels
Soft-serve ice cream

Hungry for waffle fries? You're out of luck if you want 'em from this chain on a Sunday:

Chick-Fil-A
Popeye's
Friendly's
Jersey Mike's

In the early days of the Food Network, which chain's founder hosted a show named

No patent for Dippin' Dots

Posted May 28th 2008 11:01AM by Shayna Glick
Filed under: Dessert, Business, On the Blogs

A bowl of Dippin Dots with a spoon in it.

As a good friend of mine would say: well, see what happened was...

That's what the owners of the patent for cryogenically probably wanted to say when a court ruling invalidated their patent. Turns out that to get a patent, you have to disclose prior sales, which is part of the reason that they lost it. The makers of Dippin' Dots sold a similar product to over 800 customers a year before they applied for the patent.

Dippin' Dots lost its patent in 2007, and it has two main rivals (even though I've never heard of wither one): MiniMelts and MolliCoolz.

[Via Franchise Pundit]

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Food Court Quiz

Food Court Fare

After early trials showed that 20% of mall customers didn't like this ingredient, Cinnabon dropped it from their bun recipe:

Four out of ten customers who walk into this food court stalwart include Orange Chicken in their order:

Which chain began as a stand-alone Brooklyn, NY deli?

Though the founders of Auntie Anne's experimented with various offerings, the menu was eventually pared down to lemonade, and which signature item?

Hungry for waffle fries? You're out of luck if you want 'em from this chain on a Sunday:

In the early days of the Food Network, which chain's founder hosted a show named

No patent for Dippin' Dots

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