Buying a Franchise
McDonald’s Tests Another Premium Customization Option
The burger chain is testing 'Taste Crafted Burgers and Chicken' in select locations in Atlanta, Portland and Southern California.
By Kate Taylor
Fast Food | Page 10
Buying a Franchise
Burger King Founder Predicts Wage Hike Would End the ‘Dollar Menu’ Era
By Kate Taylor
Buying a Franchise
Carl’s Jr. Tests Pepperoni Pizza Fries, Which Are Exactly What They Sound Like
Fries + cheese + pepperoni = profit?
By Kate Taylor
Building a Business
Anthony Bourdain’s Tips For Eating Great When Traveling Abroad
The celebrity chef explains how you can skip the tourist traps and eat the best local fare on your next business trip.
By Jason Fell
Buying a Franchise
Why Chains Need to Pay Attention to Kids’ Changing Fast-Food Habits
A new study shows that, on any given day, children are nearly 20 percent less likely to eat fast food than they were seven years prior.
By Kate Taylor
Buying a Franchise
These Chefs Just Raised $100,000 to Make Cheap, Healthy Fast Food
A food truck legend and fine-dining restauranteur are trying to build a healthy restaurant that will truly compete with the fast-food biggies in terms of price and customers.
By Kate Taylor
Buying a Franchise
Can Fast Food Be Healthy? One Franchise Is Proving the Point and Profiting.
Freshii is fast food's new green machine.
By Jason Daley
Tech
Why Shake Shack’s Danny Meyer Says the iPhone Helped End the Fast-Food Era
The restauranteur and hospitality guru believes the future of food is in 'fine casual.'
By Kate Taylor
Buying a Franchise
McDonald’s Makeover Promises to Be Pricey for Franchisees
With a new customizable burger platform and minimum wage on the agenda, McDonald's image revamp may end up costing franchisees.
By Kate Taylor
Buying a Franchise
Can McDonald’s New CEO Bring Real Change for the Chain?
After just two years leading the fast-food giant, Don Thompson is being replaced by Steve Easterbrook, McDonald's chief brand officer with experience in the fast-casual business.
By Kate Taylor
Building a Business
McDonald’s Caps Off a Truly Terrible Year With Falling Sales, Discrimination Lawsuit
The burger chain needs a fresh start in the new year.
By Kate Taylor
Business News
McDonald’s Japan Apologizes After Tooth Found in Food
After declining sales, a french-fry shortage and this latest scandal, executives probably miss the days when their biggest concern was the Hamburglar.
By Reuters
Tech
Taco Bell Pleads: ‘America Wants a Taco Emoji. America Needs a Taco Emoji.’
The popular Tex-Mex chain is petitioning for a taco emoji on Change.org.
Business Operations & Logistics
This Unlikely Fast-Food Chain Just Became the First to Roll Out an ‘All-Natural’ Burger
Carl's Jr. is serving up burgers made from grass-fed, free-range cows.
By Kate Taylor
Buying a Franchise
McDonald’s Slashes Menu in Bid to Turn Around Sales
The fast-food chain is finally taking serious action to fix slumping sales, making menu cuts while focusing on fresher, higher-quality food.
By Kate Taylor
Buying a Franchise
What Does McDonald’s Have to Do to Stop Its Downward Spiral?
McDonald's same-store sales fell 2.2 percent in November, even worse than analysts' expectations. Here are four ways to end the slump.
By Kate Taylor
Business News
The Top 10 Most Favorite Foods of the Decade
What happened to pot roast-and toast? Details on what foods Americans are increasingly favoring (and turning their noses up at) today.
By Beth Kowitt
Buying a Franchise
Oreo Biscuits Are the Latest Food Mashup
Atlanta-based Church's Chicken is hopping onto the fast-food mashup bandwagon for the first time.
By Kate Taylor
Business Funding
Investors Toss $18.5 Million at Salad Chain Sweetgreen
Shake Shack's founder Daniel Meyer, billionaire Steve Case and other investors are sold on the healthy, seasonal fast-casual.
By Kate Taylor
Buying a Franchise
Inside Pizza Hut’s Radical Move to Double Its Menu
The pizza chain just added a boatload of new menu items and revamped its website, logo and employee uniforms. Will franchisees be able to keep up with all the change?
By Kate Taylor
Buying a Franchise
Burger King Launches the Ultimate Canadian Mashup: Poutine Topped With a Whopper
The 880-calorie 'Poutine a la Burger' features poutine topped with chopped beef patties, mustard, ketchup and pickles.
By Kate Taylor
Business Operations & Logistics
Can You Tell McDonald’s From Organic? These Foodies Couldn’t. (Video)
Thinking they were eating snacks from a new organic restaurant, these food experts couldn't stop singing McNuggets' praises. And, it was all caught on tape.
By Kate Taylor
Building a Business
NYC Papa John’s Pizza Franchisee Sued for $2 Million
This is what happens when you allegedly underpay 400 delivery workers and shave hours from their paychecks.
By Reuters
Buying a Franchise
Flat Year for Fast-Food Is Bad News for the Restaurant Business
While fine dining visits were up 3 percent from last year, quick-service restaurants fell flat.
By Kate Taylor
Building a Business
5 of the Wackiest Fast-Food Lawsuits Ever
Some of these lawsuits are hard to swallow, but justice can be sweet.
By Carly Okyle
Buying a Franchise
Starbucks Speeds Up Service at Express Stores, Ups Quality at Starbucks Reserves
Starbucks is hoping to entice both high-paying and convenience-craving customers with two new store formats.
By Kate Taylor
Business News
6 Super-Hot Food Trends You Need to Know About
Barbecue, snack mashups and the next Sriracha – here's what Technomic predicts restaurants will be serving up in the second half of 2014.
By Kate Taylor
Buying a Franchise
Survey: McDonald’s Has the Worst Burger in America
In the battle of the chain restaurants, Consumer Reports found that customers were sick of many of fast food mega-chains' specialties.
By Kate Taylor