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Fast-food restaurants appear to have put the worst of the downturn behind them, but new industrywide challenges have emerged for 2011. That got us wondering if there's fast money to be made in fast-food stocks -- or if shares are too hard to swallow at current levels. [Video]

Yum Brands Inc, (YUM) owner of the KFC and Pizza Hut brands, is taking aim at the fast-growing African market for fast food. The company, based in Louisville, Ky, plans to double the number of KFC restaurants in Africa to 1,200 by 2014, The Wall Street Journal said. It hopes to double its revenue...

Corporate buzzwords tend to come in and out of style, their popularity waxing and waning with the rise and fall of new management strategies and boardroom wordsmiths. The latest hot term has moved from the world of gambling to the management suite and beyond.

To advertise its bunless Double Down chicken sandwich, KFC is paying college co-eds $500 to advertise on their buns, a move that should make women's rights advocates cringe but might encourage men to buy the artery-clogging $5.49 sandwich. The red sweatpants have the KFC Double Down logo and a...

The geezer with the goatee that appears on KFC's logo -- real person or a cartoon character? In a new survey of Americans 18-25, more than 60% of respondents didn't know that the geezer, Colonel Harlan Sanders, was a real person and founder of the fried chicken empire. How fleeting is fame. Don't...

For college student Brandy Zapata, Kentucky Fried Chicken means more than finger-lickin' goodness. Winning a KFC scholarship can have more benefits than just paying for school. For Zapata, the Colonel's Scholars program offered her a chance to travel the world on a KFC scholarship. Her journey...

Cash register receipts issued by several major retailers -- Walmart, McDonalds, Safeway, even Whole Foods -- contain the controversial plastic chemical bisphenol A, adding to an increasing number of ways the substance comes in contact with the public, says an environmental advocacy...

As part of a marketing blitz for its new Doublicious chicken sandwich, KFC will offer up to 50,000 free to competitors employees on Tuesday. The deal is the first 10 fast food workers who show up to a KFC wearing their uniform get a Doublicious. Oh, and they can apply for a KFC job as part of...

According to the documentary Super Size Me, Americans spend more than $110 billion on fast food annually. This year, KFC's greatly heralded, "bunless" Double Down chicken sandwich featuring bacon and cheese layered between two fried chicken filets, took a smaller-than-expected bite out of that pie,...

Yum Brands narrowly beat Wall Street's estimates by reporting an adjusted profit of 58 cents a share, four cents more than estimates. International growth, particularly in China, has tempered a downward trend in U.S. sales.