As consumer spending continues to tighten this holiday season, Dunkin’ Donuts, America’s all-day everyday stop for coffee and baked goods, today introduced a new limited-time value menu designed to offer quality products at low prices throughout the Chicago market.

The new menu will be available at the nearly 500 participating Chicago-area Dunkin’ Donuts locations, featuring six items all priced at 99 cents.

Chicago is the only market in the country that will offer the new Dunkin’ Donuts value menu, which includes:

• Sausage Egg & Cheese Wrap (new item, only available in Chicago)
• Bacon Egg & Cheese Wrap
• Egg & Cheese Wrap
• Raspberry Danish
• Hash Browns
• Package of Five Munchkins

To launch the new menu, Dunkin’ Donuts will distribute 20,000 rechargeable Dunkin’ Donuts Cards at commuter stations, downtown plazas and other major pedestrian areas throughout Chicago and its suburbs, beginning at 7am on Nov. 9.

Each rechargeable card is pre-loaded with $2.00, has no expiration date and can be used at any Chicagoland Dunkin’ Donuts location.

Additionally, Dunkin’ Donuts will present a $10,000 check to Uncle Shack’s Food Pantry, an organization that provides weekly food service to underprivileged families in Chicago and is run by Chicago Bulls star Derrick Rose’s family.

Rose and Joakim Noah will accept the check and meet fans at the Deerfield Dunkin’ Donuts located at 499 Lake-Cook Rd. at 4pm. They also will pass out 500 gift cards, thanking fans for their support.

About Dunkin’ Donuts

Founded in 1950, Dunkin’ Donuts is America’s favorite every day, all-day stop for coffee and baked goods. Dunkin’ Donuts is a market leader in the regular/decaf coffee, iced coffee, hot flavored coffee, donut, bagel and muffin categories, and the largest coffee and baked goods chain in the world.

Dunkin’ Donuts has earned the No. 1 ranking for customer loyalty in the coffee category by Brand Keys for three years running.

The company has more than 8,800 restaurants in 31 countries worldwide. In 2008, Dunkin’ Donuts’ global system-wide sales were $5.5 billion.

Based in Canton, Massachusetts, Dunkin’ Donuts is a subsidiary of Dunkin’ Brands, Inc. For more information, visit DunkinDonuts.com.

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UNO® Executive Chef Chris Gatto highlights five particularly tasty menu options for those who focus on health and nutrition:

Try starting with UNO’s signature dish, pizza, in a healthy new version: an All-Natural, Five-Grain Crust, Harvest Vegetable Flatbread which provides 15 grams of fiber, thanks mostly to its whole wheat, toasted wheat germ, oat bran, sesame seed and ground flax seed crust. Make no mistake; this new addition is just as delicious as our other pizzas.

Pasta lovers can also rejoice! UNO has expanded its relationship with Barilla® Pasta and now offers Barilla Whole Grain Penne as a substitute for any of the traditional pastas on its menu.

Made with 51 percent whole wheat, Barilla Whole Grain Penne is all natural and an excellent source of fiber, delivering three times the fiber of regular pasta. As a result, it is the ideal pasta for anyone who wants to add more fiber and whole grains to their diet, but does not want to sacrifice taste.

“We continually look for ways to offer healthy, delicious choices to our guests,” said Chef Gatto. “Barilla products have proven to be a popular choice with diners, and we’re delighted to include their whole grain pastas in our selection.”

If you’re looking for something lighter but with a huge explosion of taste, try the Power Salad with Goji Mix and Ocean Spray® Sweetened Dried Cranberries. This healthy, 420-calorie dish is high in fiber (8 grams) and low in saturated fat (2 grams).

It combines a colorful mix of spinach, sliced chicken breast, plum tomatoes, carrots, feta cheese, red grapes, and a ‘power mix’ of Thompson raisins, soy nuts, almonds, pepitas, Ocean Spray Sweetened Dried cranberries and the exceptionally healthy goji berry. Now that’s healthy flavor!

You can also try UNO’s Asian Chicken Salad. At just 560 calories, it is low in fat and high in fiber (3g saturated fat, 8g fiber). It features a delicious medley of field greens, carrots, cucumber, tortilla strips, honey lime dressing, grilled chicken, Asian sauce, snow peas, red peppers, carrot curls and cilantro.

If you prefer to bite into something a bit more substantial, try our Roasted Vegetables & Feta Wrap. This whole-wheat and flaxseed tortilla is filled with roasted vegetables, caramelized onions, tomato, feta, lettuce and balsamic vinaigrette. These 435 calories pack a protein punch with 22g and all nine essential amino acids, plus 15g fiber!

The company that was the first to develop deep-dish pizza in 1943 is way deeper than pizza. Uno boasts a number of nutritious firsts, including being the first casual-dining chain to eliminate artificial trans fats in their restaurants.

The chain was one of the first to offer a gluten-free menu, which has over 30 items ranging from entrees, salads, soups, drinks and desserts. It was also the first national casual-dining chain to offer a gluten-free pizza.

For guest convenience and safety, Uno was among the first to offer nutritional transparency for its menu and clearly identify – via its nutritional kiosks in restaurant lobbies – menu items with ingredients that are linked to the most common food allergies, such as fish/shellfish, soy, tree nuts/peanuts, egg, milk and wheat/gluten.

Diners can also preview the menu and nutritional information online via the company’s Web site at unos.com.

About UNO Chicago Grill

Based in Boston, Uno Restaurant Holdings Corporation includes 200 company-owned and franchised full-service Uno Chicago Grill units located in 28 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, South Korea, the United Arab Emirates, Honduras, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.

The company also operates a fast casual concept called Uno Due Go®, a quick serve concept called Uno Express®, and a consumer foods division which supplies airlines, movie theaters, hotels, airports, travel plazas, schools and supermarkets with both frozen and refrigerated private-label foods and branded Uno products.

For more information, visit unos.com.

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