fast food restaurants

Fighting back against disruptive protests outside its corporate headquarters and strong criticism inside, McDonald's (NYSE: MCD) CEO Don Thompson defended his company's wage scale, as well as its marketing practices, during the company's annual shareholders' meeting. Disgruntled McDonald's...

Things are heating up in the already competitive fast-food sector. Along with the recent Taco Bell (NYSE: YUM) breakfast menu campaign – that takes direct aim at industry giant McDonalds (NYSE: MCD) – and Mickey-D's counter-offensive, there have been other developments all along the fast food...

Breakfast may be a person's most important meal of the day, but it's also a hugely competitive market for fast-food restaurants. According to the food industry web site Technomic, about 28 percent of the top fast-casual chain restaurants currently offer breakfast, up 8.8 percent from the third...

Another fast-food chain finds itself on the ropes. For the second time in less than three years, Sbarro filed for bankruptcy protection on Monday. Last month, the pizza chain said it will close 155 of its estimated 400 restaurants in North America, in a cost-cutting move. Bankruptcy court...

It’s tough for any business to survive if it isn’t relevant to its customers. According to McDonald’s (NYSE: MCD) CEO, Don Thompson, his company has that problem -– at least, to some extent. Thursday, during a call to analysts, Thompson said “We’ve lost some of our customer relevance.”...

Wendy's (NASDAQ: WEN) may describe itself as “the world's third-largest quick-service hamburger company,” but the Dublin, Ohio-based company has been growing and nibbling away at the market share of fast-food giant McDonald's (NYSE: MCD). According to the restaurant industry web site QSR, 2013...

McDonald's (NYSE: MCD) is coming under fire for suggestions it reportedly offered its employees on an in-house, employees-only McResource Line web site, on how to cope with issues like the upcoming holiday financial crunch. According to screen grabs complied by the activist group Low Pay Is Not...

For some time now, fast food stocks havebeen a relatively safe stock bet for investors.  But we've recently seen many of the top fast food brands overhauling their images in a number of ways, not the least of which has been revamping their menus from top to bottom. Some have even taken the...