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Fast Food Industry

McDonald's Fined For Marketing To Children

The Huffington Post | Caroline Fairchild | Posted 04.26.2013 | Business

Brazil has a simple message for McDonald's: Stop luring our kids to the golden arches with shiny toys, just to hit them with fatty foods once they arr...

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Fast Food, Retail Strikes Expected In Chicago

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 04.24.2013 | Business

Labor groups are predicting that hundreds of Chicago-area fast-food and retail workers will walk off the job for a one-day strike on Wednesday, just w...

What's Lurking In Your Fast Food?

Posted 04.22.2013 | Healthy Living

By Sunny Sea Gold for YouBeauty.com Millions of Americans eat burgers, sodas and fries every day, so you'd assume that any ingredients and chemical...

CEOs Get HUGE Raises, Despite Falling Sales

AP | CANDICE CHOI | Posted 04.12.2013 | Business

NEW YORK — McDonald's Corp. more than tripled the pay packages last year for its new CEO Don Thompson and the man he replaced, Jim Skinner. The...

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Fast Food Workers Strike In New York City

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 04.04.2013 | Business

Stephen Warner works part-time at a McDonald's in New York City, earning the legal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour. He hasn't seen a pay bump since he ...

Which Is Worse: Drive-Throughs Or Drive-Bys? The 'Gangster Gardner' Weighs In

Posted 03.20.2013 | Black Voices

Just in case you thought you had a little street cred, Los Angeles native Ron Finley is here to set the record straight. "You ain't gangsta unless you...

Fast Food CEO: Health Food Craze 'Not Our Personality'

The Huffington Post | Posted 03.16.2013 | Business

Fast food can have a lot of calories and one CEO isn't afraid to keep in that way. Andy Puzder, the CEO of CKE Restaurants which owns Carl's Jr. a...

WATCH: The "Gangster Gardener" Links Gardening And Community Health

Posted 03.08.2013 | Healthy Living

Ron Finley is a successful clothing designer and artist from Los Angeles whose life got a little dirtier when he realized something strange about ...

Addicted to Food?

Paul Spector, M.D. | Posted 05.04.2013 | Healthy Living
Paul Spector, M.D.

If you look at our culture's eating behavior, it certainly looks like addiction. Any situation is an opportunity to eat. Once we've started eating we don't seem to know when to stop, even when we want to, even when we know we're hurting ourselves.

Food Industry Expert Reveals The Key To Winning The Junk Food Battle

The Huffington Post | Jillian Berman | Posted 03.01.2013 | Business

First lady Michelle Obama is taking the right approach to encouraging kids and parents to choose healthier food, but she faces an uphill battle, accor...

My Conversation With Michael Moss: Bullies, Bodies, and the Body Politic

David Katz, M.D. | Posted 05.01.2013 | Healthy Living
David Katz, M.D.

The food industry brings in serious muscle to bully us into eating too much of all the wrong things, while someone counts the cash. Any conversation about personal responsibility or public policy that fails to acknowledge this reality is either disingenuous, or uninformed.

What Michelle Obama Didn't Say About The Business Of Being Healthy

The Huffington Post | Jillian Berman | Posted 02.28.2013 | Business

Selling healthier food is just good business, according to First Lady Michelle Obama. We're not sure the food industry would agree. In an op-ed in ...

Why Is the Restaurant Lobby Making Us Sick?

Michele Simon | Posted 04.22.2013 | Business
Michele Simon

Remember all the times that as a full-time salaried worker, you stayed home with a cold or to take care of a sick child? It's a perk many of us take for granted, but for workers who handle our food, in jobs where spreading germs is among the most risky, calling in sick not even an option.

Taco Bell Pulls Controversial Ad

AP | Posted 01.28.2013 | Business

NEW YORK -- Taco Bell is pulling a TV ad after receiving complaints that it discouraged people from eating vegetables. The ad by the fast-food chain ...

Subway's Inch-Short Footlong Causes Facebook Fury

The Huffington Post | Ron Dicker | Posted 01.18.2013 | Home

He got it made at Subway -- and it didn't measure up. Australian Subway customer Matt Corby took a tape measure to the sandwich chain's vaunted Foo...

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Merry Christmas! Now Clock In

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 12.20.2012 | Business

Aristides Burgos works at a McDonald's restaurant in Manhattan making $7.50 an hour, a quarter above minimum wage. The part-timer gets 20 hours on the...

LOOK: 10 Things The Fast Food Industry Doesn't Want You To Know

The Huffington Post | Damon Scheleur and Jillian Berman | Posted 12.01.2012 | Business

Think your Big Mac was flipped by a teenager just looking for some pocket change? That's less and less the case these days. Find out the averag...

McDonald's Announces Special Holiday Menu

Posted 10.26.2012 | Home

The McRib isn't the only holiday gift McDonald's has up its sleeve this year. BrandEating just uncovered the fast food chain's full slate of special h...

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How Big Business May Dodge Obamacare

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 10.11.2012 | Business

Working as a server at a Capital Grille in Tampa, Fla., Kevin Kearney typically picks up more than 30 hours per week, bringing home just enough money ...

WATCH: Scumbag Frankenstein Promotes Chipotle $2 'Boorito'

The Huffington Post | Rebecca Orchant | Posted 10.05.2012 | Home

On Halloween, Chipotle will host Boorito 2012, its annual fundraiser, which benefits the Chipotle Cultivate Foundation this year. All you have to do i...

LOOK: Amazing Retro Photos Of The First-Ever McDonald's

The Huffington Post | Drew Guarini | Posted 10.08.2012 | Small Business

Sometimes we at HuffPost Small Business feel a little stigmatized as, well, "tiny." It helps to remember, on those days, that you have to start somewh...

Fast Food Study Participants Packed On Weight, Health Problems

Posted 10.05.2012 | Home

We're going to go ahead and put this in the, "No, really?" column. Participants in a Washington University School of Medicine fast food study packed o...

McDonald's Getting Serious About Its Coffee

Posted 10.03.2012 | Home

Do you like the taste of McDonald's coffee, but dislike how convenient it is to buy coffee already-brewed? You may be in luck. BurgerBusiness reports ...

McDonald's Proves Its Burgers Are 100% Beef

Posted 10.02.2012 | Home

McDonald's Canada continues its bizarre transparency quest with a video that shows us how the chain's burgers get made. This video appears to be a dir...

Study Finds Fast Food Logos 'Imprinted' On Kids' Brains

Posted 09.24.2012 | Home

A recent study out of University of Missouri-Kansas City and the University of Kansas Medical Center suggests that children's brains may be imprinted ...