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This week, international chain Domino’s added the meatless Unthinkable Pizza to its menu at locations in Mumbai, Delhi, and Bangalore. The new pizza is topped with plant-based chicken, making Domino’s the first quick-service restaurant to add plant-based protein to its menu in India. “We are delighted to launch India’s first plant protein based product, The Unthinkable Pizza,” Pratik Pota, CEO of Jubilant FoodWorks Ltd which operates Domino’s in the region said. “This innovative and 100 percent vegetarian product will allow Indian consumers to experience the plant-protein wave sweeping across the world. Domino’s has always brought pioneering innovations to the Indian market, and we are happy to once again be the first to bring this trend to India.”
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This month, 150-year-old French pâtisserie chain Ladurée is selling its vegan pastries, macarons, and hot teas out of vegan eatery Plant Food + Wine in Venice, CA. The eatery, owned by vegan chef and entrepreneur Matthew Kenney, opened its doors as a pop-up retail shop as a way to continue to serve the community during the COVID-19 pandemic. There, patrons can shop for the Ladurée desserts Kenney helped create, along with home scents, key rings and bags, and a limited-edition Ladurée Christmas box.
Ladurée goes vegan
Last year, Ladurée partnered with Kenney to revamp its Beverly Hills location to be fully vegan. The bakery now serves vegan macarons in a variety of flavors, including Vanilla, Pistachio, Chocolate, Rose, Salted Caramel, and Lemon, along with croissants, palmiers, meringue-topped tartlets, and other classic French pastries. It also offers a vegan menu with dishes such as whipped cream-topped French toast, egg-free omelettes, and Croque-Monsieur sandwiche
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Today, Burger King will add the Plant-Based Whopper to 325 locations in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Hangzhou across China. The new meatless burger is made with a vegan patty supplied by Dutch brand The Vegetarian Butcher which was acquired by consumer goods company Unilever in 2019. The Vegetarian Butcher CEO Hugo Verkuil told
Reuters that the brand plans to expand its plant-based patty to 1,300 additional Burger King locations in China in the first quarter of 2021.
Plant-based Whoppers go global
In August 2019, Burger King first launched the Impossible Whopper made with an Impossible Burger plant-based patty at all of its locations across the United States. Since then, different versions of meatless Whoppers have made their way onto menus across the world, including the Rebel Whopper in Brazil (which features a plant-based patty produced by Marfrig Global Foods SA the world’s largest producer of animal-based hamburgers); the Rebel Whopper in Sweden (where the pa
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Last weekend, a group of diners in Singapore were the first in the world to purchase a meal made with cell-based chicken after the country became the first to approve the sale of the food technology in November. The customers gathered at upscale restaurant 1880 in Singapore to sample a four-course meal that highlighted cell-based chicken (real meat grown from a small amount of animal cells without the need to slaughter a chicken) produced by California-based startup Eat Just. Among the first patrons to try Eat Just’s cell-based (also known as “cultured”) chicken were teens and pre-teens, an age group that has shown the biggest concern for creating a better planet.
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New vegan fried chicken brand VFC recently launched across the United Kingdom. The new brand was created by businessman Matthew Glover who founded vegan campaign Veganuary with his wife Jane Land in 2014 alongside Source restaurant owner Adam Lyons as a form of protest of the animal agriculture industry. Initially, the duo is launching VFC with three seitan-based and soy-free products (available in original or spicy flavors) through the brand’s website: Bites & Fries, with a tangy barbecue sauce, VFC Bites, and VFC Fillets. “I am a businessman turned activist and VFC is very much a marriage of the two,” Glover said. “There are many ways to dismantle unjust systems, and we intend VFC to be part of the movement that puts an end to factory farming for good.”