Red Robin going cage-free - by Charles Redell
The chain of restaurants with more than $800 million in sales in 2008 says one-third of its eggs will be cage-free by the end of July 2009 as it moves toward all cage-free eggs by 2010. A new law in California is partly to thank for the decision.
Chickens spend their entire lives in battery cages.
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The chain of restaurants with more than $800 million in sales in 2008 says one-third of its eggs will be cage-free by the end of July 2009 as it moves toward all cage-free eggs by 2010. A new law in California is partly to thank for the decision.
