Popeyes strips transfat from menu

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- U.S. fast-food chain Popeyes Chicken & Biscuit annouced Tuesday it is offering biscuits that are free from transfat and one gram-per-serving french fries.

The restaurant said it began offering zero transfat biscuits and one gram trans fat fries in 2006 and has completed the project for the items to be in all restaurants.

Popeyes, a unit of AFC Enterprises (up $0.41 to $19.20, Charts), said many of its core chicken items have zero grams of transfat, while other items on the menu contain 1.5 grams or less.

The New Orleans-style restaurant also plans to review its Cajun and Creole flavor menu items and cooking procedures and said a zero transfat shortening is being tested.

Other restaurants, including Wendy's (down $0.68 to $39.16, Charts), McDonald's (down $0.61 to $50.29, Charts, Fortune 500), Starbucks (down $0.17 to $28.44, Charts, Fortune 500), and Burger King (down $0.45 to $24.20, Charts) have pledged to eliminate transfat nationwide.