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• Lives: Forbidden Nonfruit

  A childhood devoid of junk food breeds certain cravings. Read More... Posted Jan 03 2009, 08:14 PM by NYT > Dining & Wine Filed under: Food, Diet and Nutrition, Children and Youth, Fast Food Industry, Sugar, Snack Foods, Berkeley (Calif)

• TV Ads Contribute to Childhood Obesity, Economists Say

  Children’s weight gain is linked to the frequency of fast food advertisements on television, according to a new study. Read More... Posted Nov 20 2008, 07:15 AM by NYT > Dining & Wine Filed under: Weight, Diet and Nutrition, Children and Youth, Advertising and Marketing, Fast Food Industry, Television, Obesity

• Calories Do Count

  Complex diet regimens are starting to look like exotic mortgages and, just like a reliable savings account, good old calorie counting is coming back into fashion. Read More... Posted Oct 28 2008, 06:22 PM by NYT > Dining & Wine Filed under: Food, Restaurants, Labeling and Labels, Diet and Nutrition, Fast Food Industry, Calories

• $25 and Under: Chicken in Global Attire

  Several shops in Brooklyn serve the sandwiches of fried chicken cutlet on baguette that Israelis, and many Jewish New Yorkers, call schnitzel. Read More... Posted Aug 19 2008, 07:49 PM by NYT > Dining & Wine Filed under: Brooklyn (NYC), Fast Food Industry, Sandwiches, Chicken

• Los Angeles Stages a Fast Food Intervention

  The yearlong moratorium on new fast food restaurants in Los Angeles raises questions about when eating stops being a personal choice and becomes a public health concern. Read More... Posted Aug 12 2008, 08:25 PM by NYT > Dining & Wine Filed under: Restaurants, Weight, Medicine and Health, Fast Food Industry, Los Angeles (Calif), Obesity, Eating Disorders

• Fast-Food Curb Meets With Ambivalence in South Los Angeles

  The impetus for a ban on new fast-food restaurants within a 32-square-mile area was the area’s large number of fast-food chains. Read More... Posted Aug 09 2008, 01:36 AM by NYT > Dining & Wine Filed under: Fast Food Industry, Los Angeles (Calif), Law and Legislation

• Advertising: Tug of War in Food Marketing to Children

  The Federal Trade Commission issued a report detailing the pervasiveness of food marketing to children, and a coalition of food companies responded with its own report arguing they had made progress on the issue. Read More... Posted Jul 29 2008, 07:15 PM by NYT > Dining & Wine Filed under: Food, Children and Youth, Advertising and Marketing, Fast Food Industry, Soft Drinks, Council of Better Business Bureaus, Federal Trade Commission

• Wilber Hardee Dies at 89; Founded Restaurants

  Mr. Hardee was a farm boy turned grill cook who went on to open the first Hardee’s hamburger stand in 1960, starting a chain that now has nearly 2,000 restaurants. Read More... Posted Jun 25 2008, 11:57 PM by NYT > Dining & Wine Filed under: Restaurants, Deaths (Obituaries), Fast Food Industry, Hardee, Wilber, Franchises, Hardee’s, CKE Restaurants Incorporated|CKR|NYSE

• Big Chains Withdraw Tomatoes From Menus

  McDonald’s, Wal-Mart and other chains have halted sales of some tomatoes as health officials work to trace the source of a salmonella food poisoning outbreak. Read More... Posted Jun 09 2008, 06:36 PM by NYT > Dining & Wine Filed under: Food Contamination and Poisoning, Tomatoes, Burger King Corp, Fast Food Industry, McDonald's Corp|MCD|NYSE, Yum Brands Inc, Wal-Mart Stores Inc|WMT|NYSE, Taco Bell Corp, Chipotle Mexican Grill Incorporated|CMG|NYSE, Salmonella (Bacteria)

• Drilling Down: Fast Food’s Portion of Parents’ Dollars

  The average mother of a child under 15 spends more on fast food every year than on books, music, movies and video games combined, according to a new report. Read More... Posted Jun 01 2008, 09:25 PM by NYT > Dining & Wine Filed under: Children and Youth, Families and Family Life, Fast Food Industry, NPD Group

• As Oil Prices Soar, Restaurant Grease Thefts Rise

  The value of processed fryer oil has increased, and there have been reports of thefts in multiple states. Read More... Posted May 30 2008, 05:26 PM by NYT > Dining & Wine Filed under: Fast Food Industry, Waste Materials and Disposal, Biodiesel Fuel, Robberies and Thefts

• Advertising: Which Came First, or Does It Even Matter?

  McDonald’s has just introduced a Southern Style Chicken Sandwich — one that looks suspiciously like the signature sandwich of the Chick-fil-A chain. Read More... Posted May 22 2008, 08:54 AM by NYT > Dining & Wine Filed under: Advertising and Marketing, Fast Food Industry, Sandwiches, Chicken, McDonald's Corp|MCD|NYSE, Chick-fil-A

• The Next Best Things in Sliced Bread

  Seven challengers take on the mighty meatball parm and the elegant B.L.T. to become New York’s next best sandwich. Read More... Posted Apr 29 2008, 09:56 PM by NYT > Dining & Wine Filed under: Cooking and Cookbooks, Food, Restaurants, New York City, Fast Food Industry, Sandwiches

• At Fast-Food Outlets: Premature Sticker Shock for the Weight Conscious

  At some coffee shops and fast-food restaurants, the city awoke to what amounted to an accidental pilot program to post calorie counts. Read More... Posted Apr 21 2008, 11:48 PM by NYT > Dining & Wine Filed under: Restaurants, Fast Food Industry, Calories

• The Feed: Pity the Pizza, in a Land of Nuggets

  The nation’s largest pizza chains are being hammered by sluggish sales and runaway ingredient costs. Read More... Posted Apr 12 2008, 09:15 PM by NYT > Dining & Wine Filed under: Food, Prices (Fares, Fees and Rates), Wheat, Pizza Pies, Fast Food Industry, Consumer Behavior, Sales, Papa John's International Inc|PZZA|NASDAQ, Domino's Pizza Inc|DPZ|NYSE