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Fast Food Industry

Olive Garden, Pizza Hut Top Customer Satisfaction Survey Of Major Chains

Posted 08.22.2011 | Home

Pasta and pizza win again! Just days after taking the cake as the world's first- and second-favorite foods, the two Italian-cum-American dishes have l...

Burger King's New Stuffed Burger: A Word of Caution

The Stir | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
The Stir

Burger King has officially added the Jalapeno and Cheddar BK Stuffed Steakhouse Burger to its menu. Unfortunately, an unrelated article dampened my enthusiasm last week.

The Golden Arches Go Green?

The Stir | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
The Stir

While McDonald's intentions may be admirable, it's going to take a lot more than a bunch of drought-tolerant plants to convince us that we are buying a product from a company that's really interested in sustainable food production.

Why McDonald's Is Getting it Wrong

Ujwal Arkalgud | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Ujwal Arkalgud

McDonald's seems to be trying to re-position itself with changes in the menu and ads featuring what could only be imagined as cultured, urban, hip women getting together to eat a healthy meal at the restaurant. But it won't work.

Where is Your Food From? Not Even Restaurant Owners Know

Jonathan Daniel Harris | Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact
Jonathan Daniel Harris

Restaurant owners must lead the way if we are to change the way we raise cattle and serve meat. I'd encourage restaurants to offer the genuine product and then advertise the hell out of it.

Taco Bell Storms India

GlobalPost | Saritha Rai | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

BANGALORE, India -- Praful Desai celebrated his 65th birthday last weekend by doing something special with his family....

Insurance Companies Invest In Fast Food For Easy Profit Despite Public Health Concern

cnn.com | Sarah Klein | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

According to Harvard Medical School researchers, 11 large companies that offer life, disability, or health insurance owned about $1.9 billion in stock...

The KFC Double Down: One Sandwich To Kill You All (PHOTOS, VIDEO)

Mark Morford | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Mark Morford

Behold, the KFC Double Down sandwich. It is, if you really want to know, two slabs of fried chicken intersliced with two pieces of bacon, two slabs of cheese, and the Colonel's "special sauce."

McDonald's to Introduce Sad Meals

Mark C. Miller | Posted 05.25.2011 | Comedy
Mark C. Miller

As an alternative to McDonald's popular Happy Meals for children, the fast-food giant is introducing a new line of Sad Meals, for adults whose lives...

Sour Milkshake Blues: How The Fast Food Industry Is Betraying Us All

Lee Stranahan | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Lee Stranahan

My wife and I have a five month old baby and last night, he decided to cry for a couple of hours right around the time we were going to grill some sal...

Fast Food Culture: Is It Speeding Up Our Minds?

Wray Herbert | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Wray Herbert

New science is now suggesting that fast food may be doubly unhealthy--not only nutritionally damaging but psychologically detrimental as well.

For Capitalists, Obesity is a Sign of Marketing Success

Tina Dupuy | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Tina Dupuy

If capitalism is a virtue, fat people are saintly. The obese are good consumers. So, stop blaming fat people for doing what companies have urged them to do.

America's Lowest-Paying Jobs (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Sara Yin | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

As you may have heard, the U.S. economy is predominantly a "service economy." Which means, for better or worse, a large percentage of Americans have b...

Health Insurance Industry Underwrites Fast Food

J. Wesley Boyd, MD, PhD | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
J. Wesley Boyd, MD, PhD

If the insurance industry actually cares about health and well-being, it ought to stop investing so heavily in the fast food industry.

New Burger King Menu Features Starbucks Coffee, More Breakfast Options

AP | ASHLEY M. HEHER | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

CHICAGO — Burger King plans to launch a massive new coffee line as it tries to overhaul its breakfast menu and boost its slumping business. The...

Michelle Obama Steps Up As Health Champion

Alison Rose Levy | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Alison Rose Levy

I cheered when I learned of First Lady Michelle Obama's new initiative, Let's Move, aimed at the mounting epidemic of childhood obesity. It's a breakthrough for government to address obesity's systemic causes.

The Most Outrageous Fast Foods Ever (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Eve Solomon | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green

Here at HuffPost Green, we think that fast food often embodies what's wrong with how America eats: it's fast, cheap, and easy. Today's concerns about ...

Why Choose Health When You Can Have Dinner in a Bucket?

Christina Pirello | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Christina Pirello

Ninety percent of all the 'lifestyle diseases' (stroke, diabetes, obesity, heart disease, some cancers) that plague us are preventable if we just take a minute and think about what we put in our mouths.

Why It's So Hard Not To Be Fat

Christina Pirello | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Christina Pirello

Fat, sugar and salt; the triple threat to our waistlines... and health. Mere decades ago, the food industry made a conscious choice to seduce the Amer...

You Are What You Eat: Food Inc. Brings Food to the Forefront

Tracy Hepler | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Tracy Hepler

Looking at today's society it seems clear that when it comes to our food and nutrition, our priorities are out of whack. We need a wake up call and Food, Inc. is just that.

Toronto's Great Coffee Cup Debate Heats Up

Graham Hill | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Graham Hill

Toronto has a beloved coffee chain, Tim Hortons. It also has a group of City Council public works committee members working hard to reduce fast-food p...

McDonald's China Expansion: 500 Stores Over Three Years

Reuters | Fang Yan and Hongwei Li | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - McDonald's Corp (MCD.N), the world's largest fast-food chain, is optimistic about business prospects in China and plans to open a...

Every Monday Matters: No Fast Food, The Billion Dollar Killer

Matthew Emerzian and Kelly Bozza | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Matthew Emerzian and Kelly Bozza

With each fast-food feast, you significantly increase you carbohydrate and fat intake, as well as your calorie count. It's time to make your health more important.

LA Bans New Fast Food Outlets In Poor Areas

Los Angeles Times | Molly Hennessy-Fiske and David Zahniser | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

A law that would bar new fast-food restaurants from opening in South Los Angeles for at least a year sailed through the Los Angeles City Council on Tu...

Eating Well is a Revolutionary Act

Dr. Jonny Bowden | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Dr. Jonny Bowden

To really get "serious" in the war on obesity is a revolutionary act. The bad actors are the very folks who hold the GDP in their hot little corporate hands.