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Fast Food

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Globalization

You Can Eat Better Than King Henry VIII, Thanks to Globalization and Burger King

Thanks to globalization, we plebes can pay just $6.49 for a whole Whopper meal fit for a 16th-century king.

Lenore Skenazy | 1.23.2023 6:30 AM

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Movies

Review: The Whale

Man overboard.

Kurt Loder | 12.9.2022 7:30 AM

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Food Freedom

U.K.'s New Prime Minister Targets Country's Aggressive Food Nannies

Liz Truss seeks to possibly end ill-advised bans on advertising and special deals on foods experts deem “unhealthy.”

Scott Shackford | 9.14.2022 3:05 PM

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Fast Food

California Bureaucrats Want to Take Over Your Local Fast Food Joint

Where have we heard before about government councils dictating terms to nominally private enterprise?

J.D. Tuccille | 9.2.2022 7:00 AM

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Nanny State

Yet Another Study Blames Food Companies for Parental Choices

Food companies don't determine what parents put in their shopping carts.

Baylen Linnekin | 5.7.2022 8:30 AM

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Nanny State

To Fight Climate Change, Los Angeles Bans Restaurants From Giving Out Unsolicited Ketchup Packets

Businesses that give customers condiments without them first asking for them could receive fines totaling $300.

Christian Britschgi | 11.17.2021 10:00 AM

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Government Spending

Biden's New Spending Framework Promises To Do Everything but Still Cost Nothing. That Doesn't Make Sense.

Plus: Facebook rebrands, McDonald's hikes menu prices, and more...

Eric Boehm | 10.29.2021 9:30 AM

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Food

The Government Is Making Us Fat and Susceptible to Viruses

The vast majority of hospitalized COVID-19 patients are overweight. Why won’t the government stop subsidizing junk food?

Jennifer Simonson | 4.22.2021 8:00 AM

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Minimum Wage

A Higher Minimum Wage Lowers Opportunities for America's Poorest Workers

Minimum wage jobs aren't supposed to be career choices, but stepping stones on the way to other things. Everyone has to start out somewhere.

Steven Greenhut | 1.29.2021 8:00 AM

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Reason Roundup

Anti-Tech Warriors Are Coming for Your Food Delivery Apps

Plus: Good news on COVID-19 immunity, court nixes California ammunition ban, and more...

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 8.17.2020 9:30 AM

Shake Shack

Police Abuse

NYPD Cops Claimed Shake Shack Employees Put Bleach in Their Milkshakes. An NYPD Investigation Found Otherwise.

Cops have a long history of thinking fast food workers are out to get them.

Max Dunat | 6.17.2020 1:45 PM

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Coronavirus

Lockdown Is Ending, Whether Governments Approve or Not

Executive orders may have encouraged the lockdowns, but they always depended on voluntary behavior.

Eric Boehm | 5.4.2020 11:40 AM

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Fast Food

Did Burger King Tell a Whopper About Its Meatless Burger?

No, but that's not stopping a litigious vegan from making his case.

Baylen Linnekin | 12.7.2019 8:30 AM

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Fast Food

Fast-Food Bans Are a Dumb Idea That Won't Die

Food nannies won't let failure stop them from banning everything they can.

Baylen Linnekin | 10.19.2019 8:30 AM

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Food

New Research Shows There's One and Only Way To Combat Obesity

Or maybe not. We probably need more research.

Baylen Linnekin | 8.10.2019 8:30 AM

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Brickbats

Brickbat: Take a Bite Out of Crime

Charles Oliver | 8.2.2019 4:00 AM

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Weed Week

Would You Eat a CBD Burger? Carl's Jr. Wants to Find Out.

The burger chain plans to flout FDA regulations with special 4/20 offering

Eric Boehm | 4.17.2019 3:50 PM

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Restaurants

NYC Bill Would Outlaw Unfair Terminations in the Fast Food Industry

The proposal comes as restaurants struggle with the city's new $15 minimum wage.

Billy Binion | 3.14.2019 11:10 AM

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Reason Roundup

Government May Be Closed, But McDonald's Is Open: Reason Roundup

Trump's fast-food feast at the White House earned jeers, then backlash to the jeers. But who cares? This is comedy gold.

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 1.15.2019 9:30 AM

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Minimum Wage

Don't Blame the Minimum Wage for Those Self-Service Kiosks at McDonald's

Government-mandated price hikes do a lot of things. Spurring technological innovation is not one of them.

Christian Britschgi | 6.6.2018 3:55 PM

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Net Neutrality

Having Failed at Making Edible Burgers, Burger King Tries To Explain Net Neutrality

The second-rate fast-food giant gets basic internet protocols wrong.

Nick Gillespie | 1.25.2018 7:30 AM

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NLRB

Federal Labor Board Reverses Bad Decision that Made Corporations Responsible for Franchise Decisions

Union influence (and the pursuit of deep pockets) temporarily overruled economic literacy and common sense.

Scott Shackford | 12.15.2017 2:31 PM

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Menu Labeling

Mandating Menu Labeling is Foolish, Not 'Easy'

Despite claims by supporters, requiring calorie counts is neither easy nor sensible.

Baylen Linnekin | 5.27.2017 8:00 AM

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Brickbats

Brickbat: Eat and Run

Charles Oliver | 5.22.2017 4:00 AM

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Politics

Trump Calls for Starbucks Boycott. For Xmas Sake!

In calling for a boycott of the popular coffee chain, The Donald Scrooges himself all over again.

Todd Krainin | 11.10.2015 4:18 PM

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Policy

Socially Engineering Food Choices Doesn't Work

To say that Los Angeles merely failed would be putting it mildly.

Baylen Linnekin | 3.21.2015 8:00 AM

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Policy

Obesity Rose Most in Areas of L.A. Where Fast Food Openings Were Banned

Magic bullet Fail

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 3.19.2015 11:45 AM

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Minimum Wage

Ronald Bailey Debunks New Minimum Wage Hocus Pocus

Magical thinking that hurts job seekers

Reason Staff | 2.6.2015 1:30 PM

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Economics

Shake Shack vs. McDonald's: Why It's Great News that Better Burgers are Winning the Fast-Food Wars

Peter Suderman | 1.30.2015 4:05 PM

Politics

What We Saw at NYC's Fast Food Strike

Jim Epstein and Naomi Brockwell | 9.14.2014 5:00 PM

Culture

The End of McFood?

Customizable food chains like Chipotle winning out.

Reason Staff | 8.8.2014 12:20 PM

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Politics

Politicians' Minimum Wage Challenge Only Proves Politicians Don't Know Jack About Budgeting

Zenon Evans | 7.31.2014 2:40 PM

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Labor

Will NLRB Ruling on McDonald's Franchises Speed Up Low-Wage Job Automation?

Scott Shackford | 7.30.2014 11:20 AM

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Politics

Why Conservatives Shouldn't Boycott Chipotle

If conservatives want to boycott bad actors, there are plenty around who have committed far more egregious sins against America than asking customers to keep out guns.

David Harsanyi | 5.23.2014 4:30 PM

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Nanny State

Proof Requiring Healthy Fast Food Marketing for Kids Is Pointless

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 4.2.2014 1:25 PM

Culture

Study Suggests Fast Food Not Source of Childhood Obesity Problem

It's just one part of an overall unhealthy diet, something we all already knew.

Reason Staff | 1.17.2014 2:30 PM

Culture

Man Loses More Than 30 Pounds on McDonald's Diet

Cholesterol level also drops

Reason Staff | 1.6.2014 1:50 PM

Politics

Eyewitness to Fast-Food Strikes: Another Reason to Support REASON!

Nick Gillespie | 12.8.2013 2:48 PM

Politics

What We Saw at NYC's Fast Food Strike

Less than 0.1 percent of the industry's workforce participated.

Jim Epstein | 12.6.2013 1:30 PM

Politics

About Minimum Wage and Today's Strikes at Fast-Food Chains

Nick Gillespie | 12.5.2013 1:01 PM

Politics

Big Labor's Misguided Attempt to Double Wages at Fast-Food Chains

Nick Gillespie | 12.4.2013 3:15 PM

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Policy

Austin City Limits Fast Food Restaurants?

A proposal in Austin, Texas, could ban fast food restaurants-and maybe even ensnare the city's beloved food trucks.

Baylen Linnekin | 11.16.2013 8:00 AM

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