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Frustrated fast-food customers are apparently heading to Walmart

 By Jonathan Maze on May 17, 2024

The retail giant suggested its value is pulling customers away from restaurants, where menu prices continue to increase.

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How Popeyes changed the chicken business

 By Jonathan Maze on May 17, 2024

How did a once-struggling, regional bone-in chicken chain overtake KFC, the formerly dominant player in the U.S. market? With a fixation on sandwiches and many more new restaurants.

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Get ready for a summertime value war

By Jonathan Maze on May 17, 2024

The Bottom Line: With more customers opting to eat at home, rather than at restaurants, more fast-food chains will start pushing value this summer.

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Burger King is now its own biggest operator, for now

By Jonathan Maze on May 17, 2024

The fast-food chain has completed its acquisition of Carrols Restaurant Group, its largest franchisee. The deal will help the brand speed remodels and change its model of franchisee ownership.

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McDonald’s goes ‘grandmacore’ with its new Grandma McFlurry

By Heather Lalley on May 16, 2024

The limited-time treat celebrates the memories made with grandma at the chain’s restaurants, the burger giant said.

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Fast-food menu price inflation is accelerating as deflation hits grocers

By Jonathan Maze on May 15, 2024

Prices at limited-service restaurants accelerated last month while grocery store prices declined, according to new federal data.

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McDonald's will start selling a $5 value meal next month

By Jonathan Maze on May 15, 2024

Franchisees gave their OK to the national value promotion, potentially setting the stage for a summertime price war as inflation-weary customers turn away from restaurants.

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Here's the big problem with all these $5 meal deals

By Jonathan Maze on May 15, 2024

The Bottom Line: With McDonald’s planning a $5 value meal of its own, more brands are already jumping onto the bandwagon. But not everybody will pay $5.

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Explaining the charges against Fat Brands Chairman Andy Wiederhorn

By Jonathan Maze on May 14, 2024

The creator of the owner of Twin Peaks, Fazoli’s, Fatburger and other chains was charged in a $47 million false loan scheme and sued by the SEC for misusing company funds. Here’s what we know.

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A prominent McDonald's franchisee sues the brand, claiming it wants him out of the system

By Jonathan Maze on May 13, 2024

George Michell, who owns some of the brand’s most successful locations, claims the company is using its new franchising standards to force him to sell his restaurants.

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