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4 hrs ago | International Business Times

KFC Takeaway Meals Smuggled into Gaza Via Tunnels [VIDEO]

Gazans craving the colonel's secret recipe for Kentucky Fried Chicken can now order their fix from a group of smugglers who transport KFC deliveries from "Last chance to order for the Thursday 6pm delivery is Wednesday night," says the Yamama delivery firm on its Facebook page .

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Related Topix: World News, Travel, Gaza Travel, Gaza City, Palestinian Territory Travel, Middle East Travel, Egypt, Sudan Travel, Sudan Travel, Africa Travel, Life, Food

Sat May 18, 2013

Psychology Today

Calorie Counts on Menus -- Good or Bad Psychology?

My husband and I were having dinner with friends from out of state the other night.

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Related Topix: Psychology, Science, Life, Food, Dining, Medicine, Preventive Medicine, Nutrition

The Orlando Sentinel

Park Avenue fast food makes Winter Park officials fret over 'fine dining' image

Fast food has begun creeping on to Park Avenue, alarming Winter Park officials who want to preserve the street's reputation for "fine dining." A BurgerFi opened last year, and a Firehouse Subs is expected soon.

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Related Topix: Life, Food, Winter Park, FL, Beef, Meat, Rollins College

OurFuture.org

Rally For Good Jobs in Washington, DC

For weeks, I've been writing that the movement to increase the minimum wage near you.

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Related Topix: Life, Food, Agriculture, Science, US News, Liberal Political News

KMPH-TV Fresno

Robber At Large: Police Search For Jack In The Box Crook

Fresno police are searching for a man who robbed a local fast-food restaurant over the weekend and got away with an undisclosed amount of cash.

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Related Topix: Fresno, CA, Life, Food

Fri May 17, 2013

Forward

Mixing Bowl: Kosher Slaughter in Poland, Gaza's KFC Craving

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

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Related Topix: Life, Food, Recipes

Wimbledon Guardian

A fast food restaurant has withdrawn its application for a 24-hour drive-thru licence.

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.

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Milwaukee Courier Online

Nationwide movement for a living wage strikes Milwaukee

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.

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Related Topix: Milwaukee, WI, Life, Food

Reuters

KFC smugglers deliver fast food the hard way

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.

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Related Topix: Life, Food, World News,

Trinadad Express

Bandit killed in hold-up

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.

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Related Topix: Life, Food

Iol.co.za

'Boycott Burger King'

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.

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Related Topix: Life, Food, World News, South Africa,

The Pitch

The Humdinger: Stand in line to get in, baby

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.

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Related Topix: Life, Food, Kansas City, MO, Hamburger

Thu May 16, 2013

Milwaukee Journal-Sentinal

'Fight for $15' protest only fights the future

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.

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Related Topix: Dining, Life, Food, Milwaukee, WI

OC Weekly

Long Beach Lunch: Wa Wa

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.

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Related Topix: Life, Food, Dining, Meat, Chicken

Skanner Seattle

NY Attorney General Investigating Fast Food Wage Theft

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

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Related Topix: Life, Food, New York, North Yorkshire County, England, World News, East Riding of Yorkshire County, England, United Kingdom, New York Government

WATE-TV Knoxville

8 lbs. of food thrown out at Turkey Creek restaurant

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

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Examiner.com

Is fast food too cheap?

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.

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The Indianapolis Star

McDonald's robber cuts in line at drive-thru

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

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The Island Packet

Gatsby and the McJobs Rebellion

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.

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CNN

Buckets of KFC smuggled under border

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.

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