Ever wonder where your favorite fast food chain first popped up? Look no further.

Mobile innovations continue to grow at a staggering pace and to win the game, your brand's mobile app is going to need more than just a menu, nutritional information and restaurant locations.

Fourthmeal is going mobile. Later this year, Taco Bell will start accepting orders via smartphone, according to trade publication Nation's Restaurant News. Rather than turn elsewhere for an existing mobile ordering solution, the fast food chain has reportedly spent more than two years perfecting its own system. "Living Más is all about doing things differently," mobile lead Jeff Jenkins told Nation's Restaurant News. "One brand will be extraordinary, while everyone else is ordinary."

Chick-fil-A Inc. announced plans Tuesday to use chicken raised without antibiotics in all of its restaurants within five years.

Slices aren't an option at Whitney Aycock's Rockaway Beach pizza shop, as he will happily explain to anyone who orders one: “If you want a slice, go to Elegante’s. I don’t give a fuck,” he told one customer late on a recent Friday night. Next in line was a pair of teenagers. One was eager to sample Aycock's handcrafted creations. The other was scared to try something new.

Subway says it's in the process of removing a chemical from its bread as part of an ongoing effort to improve its recipes. The announcement comes after a popular food blogger launched a petition this week asking the sandwich chain to stop using the ingredient, called azodicarbonamide. A representative for Subway says the change was underway before the petition was launched, but did not immediately provide details on when it started or when it would be complete.

McDonald's is relying on its McCafe business to revive sluggish sales. Last week, company executives said that expanding its coffee offerings would be a priority going forward. The fast food chain already offers about 15 McCafe items. But McDonald's vow to become the "envy" of Starbucks is hurting business, reports Leslie Patton at Bloomberg News.

Two customers walk into a Cracker Barrel in Lincoln, Neb., and ask to be seated in the section with the grumpiest server so that they can make him or her laugh. That's not a set-up to a joke, but the beginning to a story that shows how having a good attitude can really pay off. The pair were told that the restaurant didn't have any grumpy servers, so they were seated with the happiest: 18-year-old Abigail Sailors.

I learned that even Obama knows young people don't use Facebook anymore.

Shortly after New Year’s Day, Man Hyung Lee, 77, was nursing a coffee in his usual seat in a narrow booth at a McDonald’s in Flushing, Queens, when two police officers stepped into the fluorescent light of the restaurant.

On New Year's Day in Luxembourg, when most local restaurants were closed, I ate a late lunch in one of the six Pizza Huts in the tiny and extremely wealthy country. The meal was surprisingly fancy, costing more than $100 for an appetizer, two large pizzas, and soft drinks.

I’m on the record as not enjoying the company of children when dining out. It’s one of the reasons I generally ask to be seated in or at the bar. I try to keep my eye rolling in check when a youngs...

Ziferblat (meaning ‘clockface’) is a Russian café franchise where you pay by the minute, rather than by item. And it’s just opened in London.

A great sushi chef in another state once complained to me about a health code violation he'd received for making sushi without gloves. "Making sushi with gloves is like making love with a condom," he said. "It just isn't the same." Well, as of Jan. 1, California's law has changed so that there can no longer be any bare-handed contact with foods that won't be cooked. That means baked goods, salads - and yes, even sushi.

The owner of an IHOP in West Springfield, Mass., will pay $100,000 to settle charges of abusing labor law, including billing waitstaff for breaks they didn’t take and meals they didn’t eat, and forcing them to pay for the meals of diners who skipped out on the check.

Tim Harris, owner of Tim's Place, is the country's only restaurant owner with Down's Syndrome, and the joy he gets from serving people good food carries over into his diner's most famous export: hugs! Tim's restaurant is located in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and is open 7 days a week.

Ten years ago, you were lucky if you had more than two wine-by-the-glass options at most restaurants. Today, better eateries distinguish themselves with impeccably curated wine lists. Below, a quick analysis of what’s changed in the wine-pouring world - and why - so you’ll know what to ask for at the sexy new wine bar near you.

We rounded up a list of 50 top Tex-Mex chain restaurants around the country and asked you to determine which one is the best based on several criteria: the variety of menu options offered, the best rice and beans, the use of fresh ingredients, the most authentic/unique dishes, the best chips, salsa, and guacamole, and the most flavorful cuisine overall. Now, we have narrowed it down to the top 15 based on your votes.

When LZ Granderson was young, a trip to Red Lobster was a rare treat. Now that fewer families can afford to eat out, he says, the restaurant is in trouble.

A look at how the largest fast casual restaurants in the U.S. stack up on social media.