"Theyare forced to compete for diminishing diners` dollars while maintaining highquality fare. Leaders are innovating by introducing new value-priced menu items,retooling menus to boost sales during slower dayparts and developing newprograms like catering and selling retail packaged goods to supplement thebottom line." The 2009 Top 100 Fast-Casual Restaurant Report was designed to providerestaurant operators and foodservice suppliers with extensive information andanalysis of top performers by sales and units; current trends within thesegment; and identification of potential fast-casual growth opportunities. Itincludes comprehensive appendices listing the Top 100 chains alphabetically andby rank in sales and units, and contains profiles detailing concept and menupositioning. To purchase or learn more about 2009 Top 100 Fast-Casual Restaurant Report,please visit or contact one of the individuals listed below. ContactsPress Inquiries: Darren Tristano, 312-506-3850, or Purchasing Details: Chris Urban, 312-506-3929, or Report Details: Naomi Van Til, 312-506-3844 or About Technomic, Inc.Technomic provides clients with the facts, insights and consulting support theyneed to enhance their business strategies, decisions and results.

Its servicesinclude numerous publications and digital products, as well as proprietarystudies and ongoing research on all aspects of the food industry. Press Inquiries:Darren Tristano, Purchasing Details:Chris Urban, Report Details:Naomi Van Til, Copyright Business Wire 2009. Corporate Giving Platform Aligns Social Investment with Corporate StrategyDECATUR, Ill., May 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Today, at a Washington-D.C.panel discussion on corporate social responsibility, Archer Daniels MidlandCompany (NYSE: ADM) Chairman and CEO Patricia Woertz announced ADM Cares, asocial investment program that targets up to one percent of pretax earnings toinitiatives that advance societal improvements in areas that are related tothe Company's business."Times like these put the values of private industry to the test. As weaddress short-term challenges, it is important to continue to take a longerview and invest for the future. That's why I am pleased to announce ADM Cares,our renewed and realigned commitment to the communities and issues that mattermost to us," said Woertz. "ADM has long been a generous company, giving tomany worthy causes.

Interesting insights include:* Panera Bread/Saint Louis Bread Company led the Top 100 with total sales of anestimated $2.6 billion in 2008, a 16.2 percent increase over 2007, largelydriven by unit growth of 13.5 percent. Chipotle ranked number two, achievingsales of $1.3 billion, representing sales growth of 20.7 percent Its unitgrowth was up 19.4 percent over 2007. * The Bakery Café menu category generated $4.3 billion in sales in 2008, overone-quarter of Top 100 total sales of $16.7 billion, growing its share of marketconsiderably over 2007. Mexican and Chicken categories followed with sales of$3.6 billion and $2.6 billion, respectively. * High sales-growth menu categories included Asian/Noodle (up 13.6 percent),Bakery Café (up 12.3 percent), Mexican (up 11.9 percent) and Hamburger (up 11.5percent).

Unit growth leaders were Hamburger (up 12.7 percent) and Asian/Noodle(up 12.2 percent). * Many chains have focused their expansion efforts on buildingenvironmentally-friendly stores. This trend will continue because of its costefficiencies and its positive social message."The fast-casual segment is being pushed towards higher standards by thedifficult economic environment," says Darren Tristano, EVP at Technomic. DOE had when the competition wasfounded." For additional information on the MIT Clean Energy Prize, please visit. Photos/Multimedia Gallery Available: http:// Media RelationsCaroline Allen, Copyright Business Wire 2009.