Quiz: On manifestos, hot dogs, and activist investors

It’s time for another Friday restaurant quiz.  If you remained abreast of the important restaurant issues this week, you’ll undoubtedly do well. If not, you can start kissing that director-level position adios. As always, right choices link directly to the answer. Wrong ones link to the plight of a Burger King cashier who’s scorned by co-workers for a high mystery-shop score. Meantime, good luck!

1. Activist investor Sardar Biglari is clamoring for changes at which chain?

Sardar Biglari

a. Brinker International

b. California Pizza Kitchen

c. Texas Roadhouse

a. Del Frisco’s

c. Morton’s

d. The Palm

 

3. Which company, winning praise from Michelle Obama, “has committed to reducing calories and sodium in its meals by 10 percent in the next five years and by 20 percent in the next 10″?

a. California Pizza Kitchen

b. Subway

c. Darden Restaurants

d. Yum! Brands

 

4. Nine fine-dining chefs met in Lima, Peru last weekend and came up with a manifesto. What does the document spell out?

a.  That chefs should be socially engaged and dedicated to a just and sustainable society.

b. That chefs should not be swayed by trends like sustainability and instead focus on their own creative nature.

c. That chefs are committed to helping improve front-of-the-house service.

d.  That chefs should lobby to lower prices in light of the global recession.

 

5. True or false: The dish below is Weinerschnitzel’s new Asian Slaw Dog.

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