Fast Food News

Gaza residents craving KFC can order delivery, but with the meals smuggled by underground tunnel, it's not exactly fast food.

Burger King, in the Priory Retail Park in Christchurch Road, had asked Merton Council to extend its opening hours so it could serve customers via the drive-thru between the hours of 11pm and 5pm seven days a week.

Inspired by recent workplace actions in New York City , Chicago, St. Louis and Detroit, low-wage workers in Milwaukee joined the nationwide movement for a living wage Wednesday by walking off the job.

A van load of Kentucky Fried Chicken might not be an unusual sight in most cities, but here in Gaza this is something of a special delivery.

AN armed thief who attempted a robbery at the Point Lisas outlet of KFC was shot and killed by an off-duty police officer on Tuesday night.

Pagad has called on people to boycott Burger King. The People Against Gangsterism and Drugs claim the owners of the local franchise behind the fast food giant are of "questionable morality". Grand Parade Investments - which is a stakeholder of Grandwest Casino - is the parent company of Burger King SA.

This hot afternoon called for a cold milkshake. Not one of those bland boring shakes at one of the conglomerate fast-food restaurants, but something a little more eccentric.

A small percentage of Milwaukee's fast-food workforce walked off the job this week, demanding a greater than 100% increase in the minimum wage - to $15 an hour from Wisconsin's current $7.25 an hour.

Not to be confused with the East Coast convenience store chain of the same name, Long Beach's Wa Wa is a quick-n-dirty Chinese restaurant with cheap combo plates and made-to-order specialties that has dragged office zombies out of their Downtown cubicles for more than a decade.

The New York State attorney general is investigating whether fast food restaurant owners have cheated their workers out of wages.

There was trouble this week for a popular wing place and fast food restaurant when health inspectors came to check.

One of McDonald's strengths comes from its business model of franchising. McD corporation scoops a percentage of income, and local franchisees sort out the rest.

An armed robber employed brazen tactics to take money Wednesday from a Northeastside McDonalds restaurant, police said.

How ironic that while the film is recreating a past era of excess and greed, employees in the fast-food and retail industries across the country are engaging in unprecedented strikes over today's flow of wealth from working people to the rich.

A confluence of a hankering for fried chicken and hard times in the smuggling business means buckets of KFC are showing up on tables in Gaza.

MYRTLE BEACH, SC A booming restaurant concept is making a debut in the Grand Strand.

A local Egyptian delivery company has been smuggling KFC meals through the underground tunnels across the Egypt-Gaza border, the reported Wednesday.

Fast-food and other retail workers making as little as $7.25 an hour staged a one-day strike for higher wages at what organizers said were dozens of restaurants and stores around the city, but an industry spokesman said raises for workers would hurt the eateries' ability to keep providing jobs.

Lucia Gibbs, center, smiles as she is applauded by strikers, following her walk off the job at McDonalds on North 27th and West Capitol Drive, in Milwaukee, Wednesday, May 15, 2013.

That too much fondness of fast food can cause weight problems is old news. But the idea that nearly all types of restaurants dish up meals that can expand your waistline has not been as widely discussed - until now.