Jack In The Box Restaurant

Recessionary eating isn't always healthful eating, especially when it comes to the $1 value menus pushed by fast-food chains to keep sales growing through the economic slump, according to one health watchdog. Jack in the Box's Junior Bacon Cheeseburger was ranked "the most unhealthful" value item available among the offerings of national fast-food chains, according to an analysis by dietitians with the nonprofit Cancer Project in Washington that is scheduled to be released today.

Recessionary eating isn't always healthful eating, especially when it comes to the $1 value menus pushed by fast-food chains to keep sales growing through the economic slump, according to one health watchdog. Jack in the Box's Junior Bacon Cheeseburger was ranked "the most unhealthful" value item available among the offerings of national fast-food chains, according to an analysis by dietitians with the nonprofit Cancer Project in Washington that is scheduled to be released today.

Restaurant Held Up: A motorcyclist brandishing a handgun pulled up to the drive-through window of a Jack-in-the-Box restaurant at 16311 Beach Blvd., demanded that cash be placed in a brown paper bag and drove off with about $150, Huntington Beach police said. The driver, described as in his mid-20s and wearing a dark motorcycle helmet and dark jacket, drove away southbound on Beach Boulevard, police said. No one was injured.

The vegetarian protesters had their message, and the meat-eating passersby had a message in response. "Jack rules!" shouted a youngish fellow in a battered hatchback. "Go, Jack!" hollered a teenage girl in a sport-utility vehicle.

Jack in the Box, fine. Jack in South Pasadena, no, the City Council decided Wednesday. After an evening of debate, council members voted 3 to 2 to reject a proposal for a drive-through Jack in the Box restaurant at the city's main intersection at Fair Oaks Avenue and State Street. "Jack's back. But not in South Pasadena," declared Mary Ann Parada, an opponent and city commissioner, seconds after the vote that denied the eatery its required permit.

The U.S. Supreme Court allowed the meat processing unit for Pleasanton-based Safeway Inc. to file an interstate lawsuit against a Jack-in-the-Box restaurant franchise over a deadly 1993 outbreak of food poisoning. The case stemmed from illnesses due to E. coli bacteria traced to hamburgers sold at Jack-in-the-Box restaurants in several Western states. Jack-in-the-Box is a division of San Diego-based Foodmaker Inc.

A man was shot to death early Sunday morning after an argument in the drive-through at a Jack-in-the-Box restaurant. Mario Duarte, 20, of Pacoima was killed about 1 a.m. after arguing with people in a sport utility vehicle, who were also waiting for service at the restaurant in the 300 block of Mission Boulevard, said Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputy Cruz Solis.

City Councilwoman Laura Chick's town hall meeting tonight--the first since she took office last summer--may become the scene of a protest by Chick opponents, who are upset about a planned fast-food restaurant in their neighborhood. Activists in the Quimby Park neighborhood said Tuesday that they are recruiting neighbors to picket the meeting because Chick has not supported their efforts to limit the drive-through window hours at the restaurant.

City Council members have approved plans to place a Jack-in-the-Box restaurant near a busy intersection on Imperial Highway, despite protests from nearly 100 nearby residents that the establishment would generate traffic, graffiti, trash and crime. In a unanimous vote last week, the council allowed Merrill Development to lease space to the fast-food chain at the northwest corner of Palm Street and Imperial Highway.

A local child who became ill after eating at a Jack in the Box restaurant remained hospitalized in guarded condition while health officials sought to verify infections in more than 100 Las Vegas residents who complained of sickness from tainted hamburgers. Health inspectors said they believe tests will reveal that 10 to 15 people in the Las Vegas area are victims of the E. coli outbreak linked to contaminated meat at the fast-food chain.

A man was shot to death early Sunday morning after an argument in the drive-through at a Jack-in-the-Box restaurant. Mario Duarte, 20, of Pacoima was killed about 1 a.m. after arguing with people in a sport utility vehicle, who were also waiting for service at the restaurant in the 300 block of Mission Boulevard, said Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputy Cruz Solis.

Jack is back--with relish. Six years after a fatal outbreak of food poisoning at Jack in the Box Inc. restaurants nearly sank the company, the 1,515-store chain is thriving like never before, and its stock has firmly established itself as one of the hottest in its industry. At a time when rivals such as Carl's Jr. parent CKE Restaurants Inc. are struggling to stand out in the fiercely competitive, $52-billion U.S.

If he wasn't a head of his times before now, this should certainly cement his reputation. "Jack," founder and spokes-- . . . er . . . how about head honcho, has, since his 1995 resurrection, served as Jack in the Box's wry and dapper corporate icon. After being unceremoniously blown to bits back in the '80s, ol' Jack, no longer bitter, has made a splashy comeback and will finally get the respect he's long deserved.

San Diego-based Foodmaker Inc., owner of the Jack in the Box fast-food chain, said it signed a $58.5-million settlement of lawsuits it filed against suppliers of meat that led to a deadly outbreak of illnesses caused by E. coli bacteria. Foodmaker has agreed to drop suits against Safeway Inc., among others, over meat it contends was tainted and that caused the deaths of four children in 1993.

Jack in the Box Restaurants Switch to Coca-Cola An estimated 300 Jack in the Box franchise restaurants are switching ranks when it comes to soft drinks. San Diego-based restaurant operator Foodmaker Inc. renewed its contract with Coca-Cola Co. to serve Coke at its 1,000 company-owned restaurants. Terms of the new contract call for the 300 franchise-operated restaurants to drop Pepsi and pick up Coke in March. The contract offers more evidence that the cola wars are heating up.

The U.S. Supreme Court allowed the meat processing unit for Pleasanton-based Safeway Inc. to file an interstate lawsuit against a Jack-in-the-Box restaurant franchise over a deadly 1993 outbreak of food poisoning. The case stemmed from illnesses due to E. coli bacteria traced to hamburgers sold at Jack-in-the-Box restaurants in several Western states. Jack-in-the-Box is a division of San Diego-based Foodmaker Inc.

Jack in the Box, fine. Jack in South Pasadena, no, the City Council decided Wednesday. After an evening of debate, council members voted 3 to 2 to reject a proposal for a drive-through Jack in the Box restaurant at the city's main intersection at Fair Oaks Avenue and State Street. "Jack's back. But not in South Pasadena," declared Mary Ann Parada, an opponent and city commissioner, seconds after the vote that denied the eatery its required permit.