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At Carl's Jr., A Cheeseburger Made Of Ice Cream
By Laura Northrup on May 24, 2012 11:35 AM
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Not to be outdone by the Choco Taco, the fast food geniuses at Carl's Jr. are testing a new product that busts right through the line between dinner and dessert: the Ice Cream Brrrger. It is exactly what it sounds like. A chocolate ice cream "patty" inside a sugar cookie bun, with red, yellow, and green icing meant to simulate cheese, ketchup, and lettuce. More »
Pizza Chain Offers Free Pies If You Order In Spanish
By Chris Morran on May 23, 2012 12:18 PM
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In a move that is both savvy publicity stunt and topical button-pushing, Dallas-based pizza chain Pizza Patrón says it will be handing out free large pies to customers who place their order in Spanish. More »
Popeyes Apologizes To Customer With Service Dog
By Chris Morran on May 22, 2012 11:15 AM
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Yesterday we brought you the story of a Georgia man who said he was wrongly kicked out of a Popeyes restaurant because of his service dog. And while the restaurant chain is sticking by its side of the story, it has released an official apology to the customer. More »
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Texas Farm Bureau Applauds Domino's For Keeping Pigs In Small Cages
By Mary Beth Quirk on May 16, 2012 2:30 PM
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Just how much room pigs need to root around and snuffle is a hotly debated topic. And while some fast food chains have moved to phase out confining gestation crates for pigs, Domino's recently decided to continue using the controversial devices — and is receiving some love from the Texas Farm Bureau for doing so. More »
Congratulations, America: We've Got The Saltiest Fast Food
By Mary Beth Quirk on April 19, 2012 11:00 AM
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You are so salty, America. Salty enough to snag the title of the world's saltiest fast food nation! Congratulations, U.S. pizza, burgers, fried chicken, fries, tacos and more — you're loaded up more than anywhere else on this little green and blue ball we call home. More »
McDonald's Staffer Learns That Spitting In The Tea Will Get You Arrested
By Chris Morran on April 19, 2012 7:45 AM
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The history of spit-in-food goes back approximately 2,700 years, with the first known instance often attributed to a disgruntled fry cook at a lamb burger joint in a suburb of Babylon. That storied tradition continues to this day, with an employee at a South Carolina McDonald's arrested for allegedly leaving behind his phlegm in two customers' teas. More »
Lawsuit: KFC Franchisee Fired Employees For Refusing To Serve Expired Chicken
By Chris Morran on April 18, 2012 12:15 PM
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A former manager at a KFC eatery in Oregon alleges that the owner of his franchise not only ordered employees to serve expired chicken, but also that employees who refused to do so were fired. More »
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Wendy's Unseats The Burger King In Fast Food Rankings
By Chris Morran on March 19, 2012 3:45 PM
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Both Burger King and Wendy's have been attempting to revamp their look and their menus in recent years, but it looks like whatever Wendy's is doing is working slightly better as the fast food company edged out Burger King to become the second-largest burger chain — and the #3 overall fast food joint — in the country. More »
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McDonald's Customer Can't Sue Golden Arches For Attack By Spatula-Wielding Cashier
By Chris Morran on March 1, 2012 4:15 PM
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After 12 years of legal wrangling over an altercation between a customer and a McDonald's employee, the Mississippi Court of Appeals has confirmed that the restaurant chain can not be sued over the fast food fisticuffs. More »
What In Holy Heck Is The McRibster And Why Can't We Get One Here?
By Chris Morran on February 28, 2012 3:30 PM
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Every time McDonald's trots out its McRib sandwich, fans clamor for the saucy, vaguely pork-y delicacy. But will they be wiling to go to Austria for the McRibster? More »
Fast Food Workers Are Pretty Sure They're Making The World A Terrible Place
By Mary Beth Quirk on February 21, 2012 11:00 AM
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If you had a sneaking suspicion while working as a burger-slinger behind the counter at McDonald's/Burger King/Wendy's etc. that you were degrading the world you live in by doing so, you aren't alone. A survey of 30,000 workers asking whether or not they make the world a better place found that fast food workers are pretty aware of the wide swath of destruction they're connected to. More »
Jack In The Box's Mad Food Scientists Pair Bacon With Milkshakes
By Phil Villarreal on February 8, 2012 8:15 AM
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There are few food frontiers bacon had yet to conquer, but dessert beverages may have been one of the last. That is until Jack in the Box decided to pair the two in a bacon milkshake. If the fast food chain isn't the first to dream up the stomach-turning concept, it's certainly the one to do so in the most proudly public manner. More »
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There's More Sodium In Your Bread Than In Your Chips... Well, Maybe
By Chris Morran on February 7, 2012 3:15 PM
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It's American Heart Month (some sort of Valentine's-related synergy, we suppose) so the Centers for Disease Control has issued its latest report on how much sodium — a big contributor to high blood pressure — we're eating and where we're getting it from. More »
KFC Becomes First U.S. Fast Food Chain To Enter Palestinian Territories
By Chris Morran on February 6, 2012 12:30 PM
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After nearly two decades of attempts by U.S. fast food titans like McDonald's to open up outlets in the Palestinian territories, it was Colonel Sanders from Kentucky who finally was able to be the first when a KFC opened up in the city of Ramallah over the weekend. More »
Wendy's To Re-Interview And "Reboot" Employees
By Chris Morran on February 2, 2012 12:15 PM
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While Wendy's has done an awful lot in the last few years to revamp its menu — new burgers, better fries, fresher ingredients — it hasn't done much to update its staff. But that may change soon, with the announcement that the fast food chain plans to start re-interviewing its employees in an effort to only retain the best folks behind the counter. More »
Do All Retail/Restaurant Workers Have To Deal With Poo-Related Vandalism?
By Chris Morran on January 25, 2012 3:15 PM
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As I've mentioned in previous posts, I spent many a high school and college summer toiling behind the counter at Dairy Queen. But my particular DQ was a walk-up stand which meant no public restroom. And for this, so many years later, I am now very, very glad. More »
966-Calorie BK Burger Called "Height Of Irresponsibility" In UK
By Chris Morran on January 25, 2012 1:30 PM
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Health advocates in England, where every meal comes with a grayish sausage and a pint of warm beer, are up in arms about Burger King's new Smoked Bacon & Cheddar Double Angus burger and its 966 calories, and 58g of fat. These people have apparently never looked at the BK menu here in the former colonies. More »
Ex-McDonald's Employee Records Mouse Stuck In Burger Buns
By Phil Villarreal on January 17, 2012 8:15 AM
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A fired employee of a Philadelphia McDonald's gave a news station a cell phone video of a mouse stuck in hamburger buns and says he shot it while he was on the job. He says it was common to find mouse droppings on bread in the three months he worked there, and that management knew about the problem, telling employees to brush off the droppings before they served customers. More »
Wendy's Set To Dethrone Burger King As #2 Fast Food Destination
By Chris Morran on December 21, 2011 11:30 AM
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In the over 40 years since Wendy's began slinging burgers, the fast food chain has never been able to slip past competitor Burger King, which seemed to have a permanent lock on the runner-up slot behind McDonald's. But the newest numbers indicate that while the Ohio-based burger joint is set to leap-frog BK into the number two spot in total sales, even though it has almost 1,400 fewer stores in the U.S. More »
