As tempting as it is to attribute all of Mickey D's profits to people snorting Happy Meals in alleyways and selling televisions for french fry money, the food actually isn't the biggest moneymaker for the McDonald's cartel.
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Taco Bell is known for keeping things exciting with an ever evolving menu of fast food fare. Some innovations have been big winners — think Doritos Tacos Locos and the Quesarito — while others are a mere flash in the pan, like the Bell Beefer and Extreme Nachos. Remember those?
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Seattle-based coffee chain Starbucks is making headlines once again, this time for their new menu item targeted towards the company's goals of giving customers more plant-based food options and becoming more sustainable and environmentally friendly.
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McDonald's and its fans have some tough decisions to make. After spending the last few months operating with a pandemic-inspired, streamlined food menu, America's iconic fast food restaurant chain has seen surprising results.
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What happens when you mash up a hit number from Weimar Republic Germany with the world's first computer-generated TV host, and throw in a bizarre dreamscape populated by a lounge lizard man in the moon? Well, you use it to advertise one of the world's largest fast-food chains, that's what. Huh?
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Restaurants are just starting to hang up their "Open" signs, but things are far from normal in restaurantland, where the pandemic is causing closures and job losses around the country. The latest casualty to announce it is shutting down and pulling out of several states is Rubio's Coastal Grill.
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You probably already know you can customize your favorite beverages with different milk alternative options that Starbucks offers — but as it turns out, one of these ingredients is not what it seems.
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Fast food myths — we've all heard them (and maybe even believed a few). There have been fast food chains tainted by allegations that are completely without foundation, and one such accusation was the whisper campaign that linked Church's Chicken to an unsavory organization.
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When it comes to what not to order at Wendy's, we're not just talking about high calorie count here. We found the worst offenders on the Wendy's menu, from sketchy food preparation practices to gross revelations about the cleanliness of equipment.
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But, Five Guys is bypassing the debate over the perfect burger temperature all together by serving every one of its hand-formed, 100 percent pure ground beef burgers well done (via Eat This Not That). Why? The answer has to do with safety and efficiency, and we can't be mad at that.
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A few years ago, the Food Network conducted an anonymous survey of professional chefs, asking them to spill the tea on all the things that happen in restaurants (that you may never have wanted to know). Flay joined Today to share his thoughts on what the survey revealed.
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Bourdain, who spent over four decades in the food industry, hated brunch because he saw how the sausage was made, figuratively and, well, literally. Brunch, Bourdain alleged, is a "horrible, cynical way of unloading leftovers and charging three times as much as you ordinarily charge for breakfast."
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McDonald's has found a silver lining in the COVID-19 cloud. Customers and franchise owners seem to be happy with their experiences after the fast-food chain took items off the menu. The McDonald's website says the menu was streamlined to ensure "a contactless pickup experience."
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Basically, secret menu items are so named because the baristas have often never heard of them. So how to you go about ordering this gorgeous and delicious firecracker drink at your local Starbucks?
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For vegetarians out there, the pain is real when we want to eat out at restaurants, and are navigating an omnivore's world. Most of the struggle vegetarians encounter when eating at a restaurant involves explaining what they can and cannot eat.
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Near the end of Colonel Sanders' life, he frequently made cutting remarks about what he considered the declining quality of KFC's food.
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If you're looking for something thick, cold, smooth, and sweet to drink and you happen to be close to McDonald's — may we suggest you don't drop by and order a milkshake, because there are none to be had. Instead, the thick, ice-cream based drinks served at McDonald's are simply known as "shakes."
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If you are a Burger King fan, then you might have noticed that the fast-food chain has been holding some interesting interactive promotions. There's a new promotion in place that sounds like a lot more fun while getting customers active, and Burger King has even partnered with TikTok for this one.
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Even though it might seem like the main price pitfall at Pizza hut would be toppings, the most overpriced item doesn't have any toppings at all.
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Though many of the country's famous fast food restaurants have expanded to become multinational corporations with locations in all corners of the globe, they almost all had humble beginnings. Taco Bell is no different, but you can no longer dine there.
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Thanks to the pandemic, things won't be the same as far as our favorite restaurants are concerned, and that includes IHOP.
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In fact, fans of Shake Shack have been known to wait up to three hours just to snag some of their gourmet items, according to Gothamist. So where can you attempt to get this coveted brand's breakfast options, which will likely be just as covet-worthy as the flat-top hotdogs and crinkle-cut fries?
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The internet is where everybody's opinions are constantly aired on every subject under the sun. Case in point — an Australian woman posted a photo on Facebook of her KFC order, which included some controversial french fries.
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In the 1980s iconic Wendy's television commercial, two little old ladies, apparently in some sort of market research interview conducted by an unnamed competitor of Wendy's, comment diplomatically that the hamburger they're inspecting has a "nice fluffy bun." "Where's the beef?" she demands.
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While fast-casual food can get old when you go through the drive-thru too often, the beauty of these take-home dinners is that you can assemble them yourself with Chick-fil-A chicken and just a few extra ingredients. The nuggets sheet pan dinner introduced a new level of simplicity that we love.
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When the pandemic forced many restaurants and bars to close down their dining rooms and focus on delivery and takeout instead, selling alcohol for delivery and to-go cocktails became a lifeline for these businesses amid all the disruption to their daily sales. This might become permanent.
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When you think of Starbucks and branding, green is the color that immediately comes to mind, as it is on both their logo and the aprons worn by baristas in every store. However, Starbucks also has other apron colors that actually have secret meanings.
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