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Rooftop solar power is the next item on the menu for Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG). The popular burrito chain announced today it had plans to install solar panels atop 75 restaurants during the next 12 months. Collectively, the panels will produce 500 kilowatt hours of electricity. That will make...

Conventional wisdom holds that, when it comes to fast food in a recession, less is decidedly more. In this perspective, desperate consumers, prioritizing price above pleasure, rush into feed stations, fill up on the calories that they need to get through the day, and rush out again. Ingredients and...

As a committed sustainable food nut, I regularly gorge myself on food media. Everything Michael Pollan or Alice Waters writes, into the maw it goes. I've watched so many food documentaries that I know all the local food celebrities by sight and, when I spot them shopping at the farmer's market,...

Over the past few weeks, as a meat crisis has seemed more and more likely, fast food restaurants have begun increasing their prices. McDonald's is reconsidering the items on its dollar menu, Hardee's has changed the options in its 2-for-$3 promotion from burgers to hot dogs, and even upscale...

I know that some of my fellow bloggers over on BloggingStocks love Chipotle as a stock, salivating at its growth potentional. However, here I'm writing about the food and presentation and ambience of the Chipotle experience, and frankly, I think it's very overrated. I'll start with the ambience....

It's funny how the notion of "eating well" seems to constantly change. When I was a kid, it meant only eating out at McDonald's once or twice a month, only adding two or three packets of sugar to a glass of Coke, and trying to limit our fish stick consumption to three meals per week. Three years...