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Borrowing a page from the Willy Wonka playbook, Yum! Brands’ (NYSE: YUM) Taco Bell launched a campaign last week in which anyone who found one of 11 special “Everlasting Dollars” would win a lifetime of free Taco Bell. Taco Bell The prize, actually a $10,000 Taco Bell gift...

Most people know fast-food restaurants by their slogans – past and present. For McDonald’s (NYSE: MCD), it's likely, “I’m lovin’ it.” KFC, which used to be called Kentucky Fried Chicken, immediately brings to mind, “Finger lickin’ good....

Despite what many people think, fast food restaurant chains do pay attention to customer requests to bring back old favorites. When they comply, sometimes it’s only for a short while, or in limited locations, or in a “reinvented” form that barely resembles the original. Here...

If you live in (or are visiting) Florida between now and August 29, McDonald’s (NYSE: MCD) would like to see you –- but only briefly. The company is running a promotion during which customers are given a timer when they pay for their order. If it takes more than one minute to...

As if Yum! Brands (NYSE: YUM) Taco Bell trying to muscle in on breakfast wasn’t enough, traditional rival, Burger King (NYSE: BKW) has entered the ring and is stealing customers from McDonald’s (NYSE: MCD) in the U.S. So said Brian Sozzi of Belus Capital Advisors on Jim Cramer's The Street...

For Burger King (NYSE: BKW), imitation (with ever so slight variation) is flattery. McDonald’s (NYSE: MCD) signature Big Mac is the target. Burger King’s answer is, effectively, a bigger Big Mac. It’s not called that, of course. It’s called a bigger Big King. The exact size of the patties...

Panera (NASDAQ: PNRA) is a fast-casual restaurant chain with a problem. It isn’t fast enough. The reasons are many. There are not enough employees. Equipment isn’t adequate to handle the workload, and telephone and fax orders create disruption. According to Bloomberg, after a long wait,...

After a year’s worth of disappointing sales, McDonald’s (NYSE: MCD) has decided to try a little slight of hand. The fast food giant’s Dollar Menu will now be called the “Dollar Menu and More.” As in, “not everything on the menu will cost a dollar.” Some...

Each year, U.S. taxpayers pay out $1.2 billion in public assistance to workers at McDonald’s (NYSE: MCD), according to a study released Tuesday by the National Employment Law Project. The NELP study used data from another one conducted by economists at the University of California-Berkeley and...

Corn hit its lowest price level since October 2010 on Monday, according to Bloomberg. The slide was likely inevitable, given the fact that U.S. farmers planted a record 97.4 million acres this spring, the highest total since 1936, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture in a report...

McDonald's (NYSE: MCD) certainly has a mixed bag of problems to deal with. The company said Wednesday that sales at restaurants open more than a year slipped again in April, according to The New York Times. The company laid blame, in part at least, on declines in Asia, where fears over a new...