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OPINION

'Healthy' Fast Food Eaters
Mull the Salad, Buy the Fried

Companies like KFC know how to play to customers' cravings

May 17, 09 9:20 AM CDT
(Newser) - KFC's grilled chicken giveaway may have been a bust, but the company actually got what it wanted—luring health-conscious eaters back to the franchise, argues Steve Almond in the Washington Post. The chicken chain's CEO appeared on Oprah to apologize for pulling the plug on the offer, yet "... More »

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McDonald's • fast food • Oprah Winfrey • psychology • fast food industry • KFC • fried food • Kentucky Fried Chicken

McDonald's Doesn't Own 'Mc' Prefix: Malaysian Judge

Court reverses decision against McCurry's restaurant

Apr 29, 09 4:58 PM CDT
(Newser) - A Malaysian court ruled that McDonald’s does not control the rights to every word with the “Mc” prefix, the AP reports. The appellate court overturned a 2006 decision that forced a Malaysian restaurant named “McCurry’s” to pay damages to McDonald’s for using the name to... More »

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McDonald's • fast food • restaurant • copyright • judge • Malaysia • appellate court • curry • McCurry's

(Newser) - One minimum-wage worker farts on a salami sandwich, and suddenly the president of Domino's is issuing a public apology? “This is the world turned upside down,” writes Garrison Keillor in the Chicago Tribune. In the actual world, the salami fart is nothing. “The night manager just says,... More »

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YouTube • brands • fast food • humor • Domino's Pizza • pizza • Garrison Keillor

Domino's Workers Fired for Gross-Out Video

Employees filmed doing worse than anything than the Noid ever dreamt up

Apr 15, 09 2:12 AM CDT
(Newser) - Domino's Pizza is struggling to contain the damage after a video of disgusting antics in one of its kitchens surfaced on YouTube, Advertising Age reports. A male employee is filmed wiping his bare butt with a sponge he then uses to wipe a pizza pan, farting on pepperoni, and stuffing... More »

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YouTube • brands • fast food • food safety • Domino's Pizza • pizza

Student Obesity Jumps in Schools Near Fast-Food Joints

Rate 5% higher when kids can walk to outlet

Mar 23, 09 12:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - Students are more likely to be obese when their schools are located within a tenth of a mile of fast-food restaurants, researchers found. In a study of more than a million California ninth-graders over 8 years, they found that the incidence of obesity at schools near the restaurants was 5.... More »

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obesity • high school • childhood obesity • fast food • fast food industry • school lunches

Aussie Critics Rip Micky D's McMath Tutoring

Program is sneaky marketing push, charge educators

Mar 20, 09 7:47 AM CDT
(Newser) - Nutritionists and educators are having trouble swallowing McDonald's sponsorship of an online math program, the Guardian reports. The tutoring program, available free to schools and students across Australia, features the golden arches logo on its front page. Australia's government commended McDonald's for providing the resource, but critics see it as... More »

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education • Australia • McDonald's • fast food • online learning • mathematics

Col. Sanders Gives Hope to Baseball Fans

Recovery of statue from river may lift 'curse' on Japanese team

Mar 11, 09 2:14 PM CDT
(Newser) - A statue of KFC founder Colonel Sanders tossed into a river in Osaka, Japan, over 2 decades ago has been recovered, possibly ending the "curse" that's widely believed to be shadowing the Hanshin Tigers baseball team, the Mainichi Daily News reports. Jubilant fans tore the mascot from... More »

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sports • Japan • fast food • curse • KFC • baseball • Osaka, Japan • Kentucky Fried Chicken • Colonel Sanders

Woman Who Called 911 Over McNuggets
Gets Refund

McDonald's aims to please crazy customer

Mar 4, 09 1:52 PM CST
(Newser) - Latreasa Goodman will at long last get her refund, McDonald's announced today. The 27-year-old called 911 three times last week, enraged because McDonald's was out of the Chicken McNuggets she had ordered and paid for, but wouldn’t give her a refund. “This is an emergency!” she told... More »

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McDonald's • fast food • 911 call • 911

 China Loses Taste for Fast Food 

Chinese revert to cheaper, healthier options amid recession

Feb 12, 09 4:25 PM CST
(Newser) - The dollar menu thrives when times are tough in the US, but in China—where Western fast food is no bargain—the American chains are facing tough competition. Price is the main sticking point, but not the only one. "It's fast food," one diner in Shanghai told... More »

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China • health • McDonald's • Pizza Hut • fast food • recession • KFC • Globalization

Booming Mickey D's
Plans European Surge

Global downturn? They're lovin' it

Jan 24, 09 5:55 PM CST
(Newser) - A rare beneficiary of the financial crisis, McDonald’s says it will build 240 new European locations and create 12,000 jobs, the Financial Times reports. The firm’s biggest expansion in 5 years will extend mainly to Spain, France, Italy, Russia, and Poland. “We’re certainly not slowing... More »

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McDonald's • Europe • fast food • restaurant • fast food industry • expansion • job • downturn • financial crisis

Let Them Eat Fast Food

French restaurateurs open moins cher eateries amid
financial crisis

Jan 18, 09 7:23 PM CST
(Newser) - French cuisine just got a little less haute, the Daily Telegraph reports. As the recession hammers consumers and restaurants alike, some of France’s top chefs are opening fast-food offshoots. Expense-account meals running $450 per head are out and $6 ham sandwiches are in as famed restaurants like l'Auberge du... More »

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food • France • fast food • cuisine • restaurant • recession • financial crisis • restaurant industry

Burger King Markets Meaty Perfume

Fragrance billed as 'scent of seduction'
with a hint of burger

Dec 19, 08 2:22 PM CST
(Newser) - Burger King has unveiled a men's body spray designed to make burger lovers swoon, the BBC reports. The company says the Flame fragrance smells like "the scent of seduction, with a hint of flame-broiled meat." A website for the perfume features various "romantic" images—including the... More »

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fast food • burger • perfume • Burger King

Jack in the Box Boasts
Most Toxic 'Value' Burger

$1 Junior Bacon Cheeseburger tops cancer researchers' unhealthful list

Dec 9, 08 2:30 PM CST
(Newser) - It’s official: Jack in the Box’s Junior Bacon Cheeseburger is the least healthy value offering by a chain restaurant, the Los Angeles Times reports. The Cancer Project, which monitors links between nutrition and the disease, singled out the grilled meat and bacon in the sandwich as carcinogenic and... More »

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McDonald's • Taco Bell • fast food • carcinogens • healthy eating • Burger King • Jack in the Box • Cancer Project

Burger King Slammed for Seducing 'Whopper Virgins'

Campaign to bring burger to newbies leaves bad taste in critics' mouths

Dec 4, 08 8:44 AM CST
(Newser) - Burger King is catching flak for taking the burger wars to places that don't even have a word for burger, Wall Street Journal reports. In a campaign critics are calling crass, the company sought out "Whopper Virgins" in far-flung locations from Greenland to Transylvania who had never eaten a... More »

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advertising • fast food • Hmong • Transylvania • burger • Big Mac • Burger King

Mickey Dee's Looks to Moms for Healthier Image

Gives 6 bloggers a peek at inner workings

Nov 20, 08 5:37 AM CST
(Newser) - McDonald's is trying to harness mom power to help shake its unhealthy image, reports the Washington Post. The burger joint has recruited six mothers to serve as "quality correspondents" and is giving them unprecedented access to the company's operations in the hope they will share their favorable findings about... More »

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nutrition • McDonald's • fast food • mothers • fast food industry • public relations

 Healthiest US City Gets Moving 

Burlington, Vt., tops list due to active citizens; Huntington, W.Va., is unhealthiest

Nov 17, 08 2:27 PM CST
(Newser) - Burlington, Vt., is America's healthiest city, with 92% of residents reporting that they're in good or great health. A number of factors account for the gap between Burlington and Huntington, W.Va., which brought up the rear in the CDC's healthy-city rankings, the AP reports. Burlington's residents are younger on... More »

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obesity • health • diabetes • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention • obesity epidemic • diet • fast food • poverty • Burlington, Vermont • economy • Huntington West Virginia • Lake Champlain • health food

 W.Va. Town 
 Is Nation's 
 Tubbiest 

Economic troubles, lifestyle traditions distract from rampant obesity

Nov 16, 08 2:34 PM CST
(Newser) - Dietary tradition helps make Huntington, W.Va., the nation's most obese and unhealthy city, the AP reports. The five-county area, where poverty rates are high, boasts many pizza and hot dog joints—but Huntington's mayor will not follow the lead of New York City and ban trans fats in restaurants.... More »

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obesity • health • diabetes • obesity epidemic • heart disease • diet • fast food • West Virginia

 Rabid Fans Have Bad Diets 

Sports fanatics less healthy than non-fans, study finds

Nov 14, 08 4:46 PM CST
(Newser) - This just in: Sports fanatics like beer and fatty food. A University of Arkansas study has found that rabid fans are less healthy than people who don't care about sports, the Los Angeles Times reports. And the bigger the fanatic, "the more likely they are to consume more... More »

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diet • fast food • health study • body mass index • sports fans • University of Arkansas


 McDonald's Sees Sales 
 Jump in Oct. 

Recession? Ronald is lovin' it

Nov 10, 08 12:40 PM CST
(AP) - Consumers worldwide who are watching their spending bought more burgers and chicken breakfast biscuits at McDonald's in October, leading to a big rise in sales at established locations. The corporation said today its global same-store sales jumped 8.2% during the month, beating the company's own prediction for a rise... More »

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McDonald's • fast food • fast food industry • same-store sales

 Naked Chef 
 on Obesity: 
 No One Knows 
 How to Cook 




Jamie Oliver, grilled on epidemic, rips lack of cooking skills

Nov 6, 08 4:50 AM CST
(Newser) - Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver, widely known as the "Naked Chef" after his hit TV series, blames the obesity crisis on schools for failing to teach students how to cook. Oliver told a British government panel exploring the growing crisis that the inability to cook has driven families to turn... More »

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obesity • education • diet • fast food • junk food • cooking class • Jamie Oliver • School Food Trust • school lunches

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