Buying a Franchise Fast-Food Breakfast Buzz Boosts Egg Whites’ Prices The growing breakfast market and competition for health-conscious customers combine to create an explosion in demand for egg whites. By Kate Taylor
Building a Business With Burger King’s Slogan Swap, You Can’t ‘Have It Your Way’ Anymore By Kate Taylor
Buying a Franchise How a Smaller Franchise Partnered With a Billion-Dollar Brand on the Flamin’ Hot Cheetos Burrito Taco John's is hardly as big as Taco Bell, but it landed a big-name partner in burrito making. By Kate Taylor
Online Presence Midlife Crisis? Ronald McDonald Gets a Makeover, Joins Twitter On the heels of a disappointing earnings report, McDonald's announced its mascot is getting a new look and joining social media. By Kate Taylor
Buying a Franchise McDonald’s Profit Slips in Chilly First Quarter. Will Yum Brands Fare Better? In a quarter that saw fast-food breakfast wars and the polar vortex, here's how McDonald's is measuring up to the competition. By Kate Taylor
Buying a Franchise 8 Totally Weird Fast-Food Items That Everyone Is Talking About Fast-food chains have been trying to one-up each other with wacky offerings like the Waffle Taco and Chicken Corsage. Here are some of the weirdest items on the menu. By Kate Taylor
Buying a Franchise Like It or Not, ‘Pizza Cake’ Could Soon Be a Thing Boston Pizza customers can now vote on whether the chain should begin selling a Pizza Cake, a gas-powered pizza cutter or a pizza air freshener. By Kate Taylor
Buying a Franchise KFC’s Drumstick Corsages Are the Latest Quirky, Millennial-Targeted Fast-Food Experiment In the ongoing battle to prove which fast-food chain 'gets' millennials the most, KFC is now selling corsages for prom By Kate Taylor
Building a Business The Real Reason Taco Bell Made the Waffle Taco Taco Bell aims to charm millennials by being just the right amount of edgy as it rolls out breakfast nationwide. By Kate Taylor
Buying a Franchise Looking to Steal Taco Bell’s Thunder, McDonald’s Offers Free Coffee The day after Taco Bell began its breakfast sales, McDonald's announced plans to offer free McCafe coffee for two weeks during breakfast hours. By Kate Taylor
Buying a Franchise Fast-Food Chains Are Suddenly Going Bananas Over Breakfast From Taco Bell's new Waffle Tacos to McDonald's potential extended breakfast hours, chains are giving breakfast lovers something to talk about. By Kate Taylor
Buying a Franchise Why Are These Franchisees Ganging Up Against the Biofuel Industry? Pizza Hut, KFC and Taco Bell franchisees are joining together on an unlikely issue: our nation's fuel supply. By Kate Taylor
Building a Business A Racist Sign at Sonic and 5 Other Franchise PR Disasters From YouTube gross-outs to hashtag horror stories, check out these six PR nightmares at U.S. franchises. By Kate Taylor
Buying a Franchise Potential Franchisees, Take Note: Taco Bell Hopes to Open 2,000 U.S. Restaurants by 2023 Looking to own a franchise? Taco Bell is engaging in its most aggressive franchisee recruitment push in 15 years. By Kate Taylor
Building a Business Thousands of Fast-Food Workers Strike to Raise Wages Restaurant workers in seven cities around the U.S. strike for the right to unionize and $15 an hour wages.
Buying a Franchise Taco Bell Avoids Childhood-Obesity Debate by Axing Kids’ Meals The Mexican-style fast-food chain said it was discontinuing menu items and toys geared toward children, as the national debate on obesity intensifies. By Ray Hennessey
Buying a Franchise Truffle Fries With That? Fast-Food Franchises Spice Up Their Menus Quick-serve restaurants are beefing up their menus with gourmet offerings in an effort to compete with their fast-casual counterparts. By Jason Daley
Buying a Franchise New President, More Overseas Investment on Yum’s Menu The parent of KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell plans new growth in emerging markets like India and China with the management change. By Dinah Wisenberg Brin
Building a Business Is Multi-Concept Franchising for You? Not every franchisee has what it takes to juggle more than one brand, but those who do can reap big rewards By Jason Daley