A new study suggests that passing the Golden Arches on your way to or from work can be destructive to your diet.
The company's plant-based burger is now served at a number of fast food chains.
Burger King is testing the vegetarian addition to its menu in response to rising consumer demand for meat alternatives.
Historian Annelise Orleck traveled to Mexico, Cambodia, and Bangladesh, plus all across America, to interview low-wage workers fighting for better conditions and pay.
Evidence points to a failed attempt at social engineering.
What the company can learn from its recent E. coli outbreak.
The latest entry in a special project in which business and labor leaders, social scientists, technology visionaries, activists, and journalists weigh in on the most consequential changes in the workplace.
Researchers have long documented problems with McDonald's, but it wasn't until they began showing how the restaurants aimed at children and made people overweight that the American public paid attention.
A new study finds that eating fast food after a workout is just as good for you as a PowerBar.
Newer fast food ads all show healthy foods, but the fruits and veggies are drowned out by everything else.
The recent strikes show just how untenable the current makeup of the fast-food labor force really is.
Researchers report exposure to fast-food logos lessens our ability to slow down and savor life’s pleasures.
Will an Obamacare anti-obesity tactic make things worse?
For a company that markets itself by lambasting the industrial food system, Chipotle's offerings are starting to look a lot like many other fast-food chains out there, complete with growth hormones, feedlots, GMOs, and more.
Cheap burgers may be eating into franchisees' bottom lines, a welcome development for the fast-food scolds out there.
A new study links trans fats – already under fire for a variety of dietary ills – with grouchiness.
Researchers argue the much-decried homogenization of America is, in part, a product of our residential mobility.
Does nutrition information help diners make wise decisions in fast-food restaurants? The latest study finds it does with some people — but that’s still a net benefit to society.
The latest look at fast-food menu labeling suggests it's not changing attitudes at the counter, but experts hope it may make a difference earlier in the decision chain.
A new study finds only the middle class — not the rich or the poor — are likely to change their behavior with a soda tax.
Research shows that nutritional information about fast food inspires parents to make healthier choices for their kids.
A new study suggests that no one really looks at the nutritional information that fast-food outlets are being urged to — or forced to — paste on their walls.