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New Menu Items At Your Favorite Restaurant Chains Coming This Spring
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Restaurant chains are forever revising their menus, adding new offerings either seasonally or for good, phasing out slow sellers (sometimes brought back after fans protest), or rolling out different new items in just a few markets at first to gauge customer reaction. (Some chains also offer “secret menus” – which are usually not all that secret. For example, here are some secret off-the-menu items to order at your favorite chains.)
Now that spring is here, some of America’s favorite chains are acknowledging the season with a variety of new items. To compile a list of some of these, 24/7 Tempo reviewed several editions of the Menu Tracker column published regularly by Nation’s Restaurant News, a leading national restaurant trade publication. The column, compiled by Bret Thorn, NRN’s senior food and beverage editor, details new additions to menus at a wide range of chain restaurants around the U.S.
Click here to see how chain restaurants are heading into spring with new menu items
Perhaps because warmer weather often encourages lighter eating, seafood is prominent on this list – including four different presentations of shrimp. Chicken is always popular, too, and there are four examples here, and turkey is represented with two variations on the club sandwich. (Here are some of the most successful restaurant chains in America.)
Many of these items will disappear some time between mid-April and the end of May, while others are permanent offerings – at least for now.
Bonanza & Ponderosa steakhouses
> Menu item: All You Can Eat Fish Fry
> When available: Through April 14
> Where available: Participating locations
> Price (may vary): $9.99
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Carl’s Jr. & Hardee’s
> Menu item: Chili cheese fries
> When available: Unspecified limited time
> Where available: El Paso, TX, and Los Angeles (Carl’s Jr.); select locations in North and South Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Washington, D.C. (Hardee’s)
> Price (may vary): $2.79 (Carl’s Jr.), $2.49 (Hardee’s)
Checkers & Rally’s
> Menu item: Fry-seasoned chicken tenders
> When available: Permanent
> Where available: All locations
> Price (may vary): $4.29
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Chick-fil-A
> Menu item: Smokehouse BBQ bacon sandwich
> When available: Through April 23 or while supplies last
> Where available: All locations
> Price (may vary): $6.95
Chopt Creative Salad Company
> Menu item: Omsom Lemongrass chicken salad
> When available: Through mid-May
> Where available: All locations
> Price (may vary): $11.99
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Cracker Barrel Old Country Store
> Menu item: Jack Daniel’s Country Cocktails Lynchburg Lemonade
> When available: Through May 15
> Where available: All locations
> Price (may vary): $4.99
Dave & Buster’s
> Menu item: Spicy mango shrimp street tacos
> When available: Through May 1
> Where available: All locations
> Price (may vary): $10.95
Del Taco
> Menu item: Crispy jumbo shrimp-stuffed quesadilla taco
> When available: Unspecified limited time
> Where available: All locations
> Price (may vary): $6.50 for two
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Jimmy John’s
> Menu item: Zesty Garden Turkey Club
> When available: Through April 17
> Where available: All locations
> Price (may vary): $8.50
McDonald’s
> Menu item: Oreo Shamrock McFlurry
> When available: Unspecified limited time
> Where available: All locations
> Price (may vary): Varies by location
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Red Lobster
> Menu item: Lobster-topped stuffed flounder
> When available: Unspecified limited time
> Where available: All locations
> Price (may vary): $18.99 (including two sides)
Roy Rogers
> Menu item: Beer batter fish sandwich
> When available: Through April 25
> Where available: All locations
> Price (may vary): $5.99
Rubio’s Coastal Grill
> Menu item: Chipotle honey Argentinian shrimp bowl
> When available: Unspecified limited time
> Where available: All locations
> Price (may vary): $11.49-$11.99
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Schlotzsky’s
> Menu item: The BBQ Chicken Calzone
> When available: Through May
> Where available: All locations
> Price (may vary): $10.29
Scooter’s Coffee
> Menu item: Pot O’ Gold Latte (espresso, steamed milk, caramel, and butterscotch)
> When available: Through early May
> Where available: All locations
> Price (may vary): $5.25 (medium)
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Sonic Drive-In
> Menu item: Bacon on Bacon Quarter Pound Double Cheeseburger
> When available: Through May 1 while supplies last
> Where available: All locations
> Price (may vary): $4.99
Taco Bell
> Menu item: Klondike Choco Taco
> When available: Unspecified limited time
> Where available: 10 locations each in Milwaukee and Los Angeles
> Price (may vary): $2.99
Wendy’s
> Menu item: Hot honey chicken sandwich
> When available: Indefinite
> Where available: All locations
> Price (may vary): $5.99
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White Castle
> Menu item: Shrimp Nibblers
> When available: Through April 17
> Where available: All locations
> Price (may vary): $3.99 (small)
Zaxby’s
> Menu item: Signature Club Sandwich
> When available: Permanent
> Where available: All locations
> Price (may vary): $8.69
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