A typical weeknight for an American family can be hectic for both parents and children after a long day at work and school, plus after-school sports practices, art classes, homework and more. No ...

Inflation has affected nearly every consumer item, with everything from food and clothing to rent and health care more costly than ever. Even one of life's cheapest little pleasures, fast food, has ...

Surrounded by fast-food workers in September, Gov. Gavin Newsom signs the bill raising the minimum wage in the industry to $20 an hour from $16. (Damian Dovarganes / Associated Press) The fast-food ...

California’s dominant corporate fast food chains and their scare partners were sure about one thing: The state’s new $20 per hour minimum wage for most workers in that sector was going to lead to ...

Fast food is a fixture of American life, with nearly a third of adults eating at least one on-the-go meal every day, according to the National Center for Health Statistics. For decades, convenience ...

Fast-food employees are struggling to afford necessities and a recent report shows they must work more than twice as many hours as the average worker just to afford the meals they serve. It ...

Millions of American families are hitting the road to start summer vacation, and ordering food on the run tends to be par for the course. It couldn’t come at a better time. Fast food joints are in the ...

For several years, I was commuting nearly daily from Louisville to Lexington, Kentucky, and always tended to plan a pit stop at the McDonald’s closest to the midway point, largely because it had both ...

An In-N-Out Burger located on Rte. 66. in Azusa, CA.. Photo: Getty Images Higher menu prices would be another inevitable consequence, they cautioned. That, fast-food owners and operators cautioned, ...

What to know about the Fast Food Council and the statewide industry wages. More than 500,000 fast-food workers in California will soon earn at least $20 an hour as a result of a new bill signed into ...

McDonald’s and other fast food chains are charging more. So much so that you may want to consider going for a slightly slower burger. Or at least, that’s what Applebee’s wants you to think about. “You ...

The fast-food industry has been wringing its hands over the devastating impact on its business from California's new minimum wage law for its workers. Their raw figures certainly seems to bear that ...