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Buying a Franchise

The 4 Things You Need to Know About McDonald’s Turnaround Plan

Delivery, refranchising and a new organizational structure – here are the hard facts on how McDonald's wants to fix a broken system.

By Kate Taylor

Buying a Franchise

McDonald’s Tests Another Premium Customization Option

By Kate Taylor

Building a Business

6 Things to Expect From McDonald’s Secret Turnaround Plan

By Kate Taylor

Buying a Franchise

How El Pollo Loco Churns Out New Menu Items Crazy Fast

By Kate Taylor

Buying a Franchise

Burger King Founder Predicts Wage Hike Would End the ‘Dollar Menu’ Era

The man who help found the fast-food joint 51 years ago says that prices will shoot up if workers' pay increases.

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.

By Kim Lachance Shandrow

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