fast food chains
| 12:50PM 10/08/2010
Little-known Focus Brands owns chains like Carvel, Cinnabon, Schlotzsky's and Moe's Southwest Grill. It now also owns Auntie Anne's, founded by Annie Beiler (pictured). Her pretzels could help Focus go public at some point.
| 2:30PM 4/13/2010
I won't spend another $5.65 on KFC's new Double Down because the sandwich is naked. So what that it tastes OK. Or that it has enough hunger-slaying protein to train for Mr. Olympia. It isn't worth the price of the bread that it doesn't include. That's the meat of its problem. It's almost all meat....
| 8:00AM 4/02/2010
There's an episode from the last season of King of Queens that I kept thinking about this week. Doug Heffernan, played with impeccable comic timing by Kevin James, is a character who loves his fast food burgers, chips and other assorted junk foods. Well, in this particular episode, he almost hits a...
| 3:00PM 3/24/2010
Sandwich giant Subway announced that it wants to take a bite out of the breakfast market with the nationwide launch of egg and cheese breakfast sandwiches. The company also announced that it will soon start using eggs from cage-free hens.
The sandwiches, scheduled to debut in North America on...
| 6:00AM 12/02/2009
Residents of Oklahoma City, OK, Easton, MD and Aurora, CO should start lining up now if they want to get a free Chick-fil-A meal each week for a year when the fun-loving fast-food chicken restaurant opens in their cities Thursday.
Every time Chick-fil-A opens a restaurant, the first 100 customers...
| 11:30AM 10/01/2009
Anyone who's ever tried to grab lunch in a pinch knows how exasperating it can be, especially if it involves fast food at a drive-through window. But for customers of Chick-fil-A, the experience is routinely a satisfactory one, according to the latest rankings by an industry publication.
The...