How McDonald's is spending millions of dollars to regain its crown as...
McDonald's headquarters and franchisees are investing millions of dollars to speed up drive-thru times after six years of increasingly long waits. On Monday, McDonald's announced a new program to...
View ArticleWendy's breakfast rollout will be a brutal billion-dollar battle 'not for the...
Wendy's is rolling out breakfast in 2020, reigniting a brutal war between fast-food rivals. Wendy's will need to capture at least $1 billion in breakfast sales from fast-food competitors to break even,...
View ArticlePlant-based 'meat' is conquering fast food. Here's where you can get meat...
Plant-based meat alternatives are making inroads into the fast-food and casual-dining markets.Impossible Foods announced in May it had raised $300 million in a new funding round. Earlier that month,...
View ArticleThese chains offer the best value in fast food, according to customers
Business Insider surveyed more than 3,000 readers to determine which fast-food chain offers the best value.Rankings were determined by the percentage of visitors to a chain said that that chain had the...
View ArticleChick-fil-A is teens' favorite restaurant chain in America
Chick-fil-A is teens' favorite restaurant chain in the US, according to Piper Jaffray's biannual survey of teenagers. The chicken chain has dominated Piper Jaffray's ranking of teenagers' favorite...
View ArticleWhat the menu looked like at 10 fast-food restaurants when they first opened
Many popular fast-food restaurants started with simple menus that gave customers just a few items to choose from.Taco Bell's 1960s menu had five food options for 19 cents each, while Arby's only sold...
View ArticleI compared McDonald's cheapest burger with its most expensive, and the...
Value is one of the biggest reasons people often eat at McDonald's.However, McDonald's recently did away with its value menu, replacing it with frequent deals. The chain has also made changes to appeal...
View ArticleMcDonald's is the king of fast-food breakfast, according to customers
Business Insider surveyed more than 3,000 readers to determine which fast-food chain's breakfast fans love the most.Rankings were determined by the percentage of visitors to a chain who said that that...
View Article26 of the most epic product fails in American history
Launching a new product is no easy feat — even major companies have unexpected flops.Less than 3% of new consumer packaged goods exceed first-year sales of $50 million, according to Joan Schneider and...
View ArticleBurger King follows in McDonald's footsteps with Uber Eats delivery
Burger King has a new partnership with Uber Eats. McDonald's partnered with Uber Eats to roll out delivery starting in early 2017. Earlier this year, McDonald's broke its exclusive deal with Uber Eats...
View ArticleWe asked more than 3,000 people about which fast-food chains have the best...
Business Insider surveyed more than 3,000 readers to determine which fast-food chain has the best coffee.The rankings were determined by the percentage of visitors to a chain who said that that chain...
View ArticleMcDonald's slides as weak US growth leads to earnings miss (MCD)
Shares of McDonald's dipped as much as 4% on Tuesday after the the fast-food chain reported third-quarter sales and profit that fell below Wall Street estimates. The company posted $1.61 billion in...
View ArticleMcDonald's chicken sales took a hit after Popeyes' sandwich launched the...
McDonald's couldn't keep up with the competition in the chicken wars sparked by the debut of Popeyes' chicken sandwich in August. On Tuesday, McDonald's announced US same-store sales grew 4.8% in the...
View ArticleMcDonald's drive-thrus are speeding up after years of longer and longer waits
McDonald's drive-thru times dropped by twenty seconds over the last quarter, according to CEO Steve Easterbrook.This is the second quarter in a row that McDonald's has shortened drive-thru times in the...
View ArticleFive Guys has the best french fries in fast food, according to our survey of...
Who has the best french fries? The answer changes depending on who you ask. As part of a larger survey about fast food, we asked the readers of Business Insider to tell us which chain they thought had...
View ArticleMcDonald's says it gets 10 McDelivery orders per second — and Wall Street...
McDonald's CEO Stephen Easterbook said on the company's most recent earnings call that delivery is the fast food giant's next "big frontier." The company's customers are placing 10 McDelivery orders...
View ArticleKanye West has a new song called 'Closed on Sunday' that heavily references...
Kanye West has a new song called "Closed on Sunday" that references Chick-fil-A. "Closed on Sunday, you my Chick-fil-A," the song begins. Chick-fil-A closes all of its locations on Sunday because of...
View ArticleA high-tech drive-thru renaissance is the future of fast food at chains like...
Chipotle and McDonald's executives highlighted high-tech drive-thrus as a major opportunity during calls with investors this week. Chipotle is opening 60 more locations with mobile ordering...
View ArticleHow Kanye West and Kim Kardashian use their public love of chains like...
Kanye West's Chick-fil-A-inspired song "Closed on Sunday" is just the latest in his and Kim Kardashian West's long relationship with fast-food chains like McDonald's and In-N-Out. Kim Kardashian West...
View ArticleI tried bacon cheeseburgers from the three biggest fast-food burger chains,...
The bacon cheeseburger is close to being universally beloved comfort food.I tried bacon cheeseburgers from McDonald's, Burger King, and Wendy's to see whose was best.While none of the burgers were bad,...
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