Food & Drink

Sandwich chain Jimmy John's is celebrating the biggest day on the cannabis calendar, 4/20, with a new sandwich item called the "Munchie Crusher," and is pairing the menu item with for some special branded items like rolling papers, matches, and other promotional products available at its Long Beach, CA, location.

Ice cream and cake brand Carvel is opening more stores throughout the U.S., and using co-branded restaurant concepts to introduce itself to new markets. It's a good lesson for promotional products distributors about how brands can work together to create a complementary experience.

What makes a good co-branded promotion? Whataburger and Magellan Outdoors just showed what it looks like by incentivizing business at each others' stores, while creating a merchandise line that equally celebrates both brand aesthetics.

Chips Ahoy is joining other food brands by creating limited merchandise for the NTWRK platform, but doing things a little differently by piecing together a branded kit for its birthday celebration. The Chips Ahoy! Happiest Party Kit container products like branded birthday candles, cookie-shaped confetti, a disposable camera, a wireless Bluetooth speaker with power bank…

Here in the Northeast, the beginning of spring means more than just better weather and later sunsets. It means free Rita's Italian ice (at least on that first day of spring). Rita's is a staple of spring and summer, and Philadelphia-area brewery Nashaminy Creek Brewing Co. is doing a collaborative line of beers inspired by…

B.J. Novak's Chain restaurant concept is a parody of sorts, taking pieces of America's fast food culture and turning it into an elevated dining experience using incredibly detailed branding. But where fast food is so accessible, this feels like a patronizingly exclusive endeavor, even down to the promotional items.

Building upon the success of its very popular snack boxes, Maple Ridge Farms announced the release of eight new snack boxes this week. Maple Ridge Farms, Mosinee, Wisconsin, now offers eleven unique snack boxes with prices ranging from $20 (c) to $50 (c). These exciting new options can be viewed at MapleRidge.com/Snack-Boxes. Each snack box…

Millennials waxed nostalgic about the modest Dunkaroos. A snack time favorite that disappeared for years until, suddenly, they were back. And boy are they ever back, now embracing the modern world with an appetite for branded products like fully customized sneakers that you can only get on certain online platforms. The hand-painted Reebok sneakers (called…

With the return of the NCAA Tournament, Pizza Hut is also bringing back a beloved promotional item that fans haven't seen since the 1990s: mini basketball and special pizza boxes that transform into a basketball hoop.

When Tesla hosted its "Cyber Rodeo" event to commemorate the company's new Austin headquarters, we reported that there were Tesla-branded branding irons available to attendees because, at this point, why not? They were exclusive to the Austin event, but Tesla recently put them up on the company's store.