We're bombarded with more messages to eat healthier -- cut back on salt, fat, and sugar -- and more products help us do so. But restaurants, fast food chains and food manufacturers aren't making it easy to eat smarter.

Cheap burgers may be eating into franchisees’ bottom lines, a welcome development for the fast-food scolds out there.

A Dearborn McDonald's falsely advertised its food as prepared according to Islamic law. Islam forbids consumption of pork, and God's name must be invoked before an animal providing meat for consumption is slaughtered.

Mexico's new hardline stance on salt has led to the removal of salt shakers from over 200,000 restaurants, pubs and cafes in the country's capital.

It was a simpler time back then.

I'll jut take it to go then, losers.

MORRIS, Man. - When Dave Claringbould and his partner opened a restaurant in rural Manitoba, they knew some people might have a problem with them being gay.But they didn't expect to face blatant ignorance and insults."We were asked if somebody was going to catch something off of the plate because we had prepared the food on it," Claringbould recalled Tuesday.

Said no kid EVER.

It seems that in at least one part of the world, the golden arches have lost a little luster.

A comic about people who wait tables...

I gotta admit it: I have a secret love for McDonald's breakfast sandwiches. On the morning after a rough night out, I wake up with a deep hole in the pit of my stomach.

Almost 10 percent of the U.S. workforce is in the restaurant industry. Why is it legal to treat them so poorly?

Horse meat continues to turn up in beef products all over Europe. On Monday, Swedish furniture-maker Ikea announced that it was withdrawing its famous meatballs from 14 European locations after trace amounts of equine were discovered within them.

Other fast food stocks down as well.

With the collapse of the USSR and the penetration of Western capital into Russia, employers discovered a workforce that adapted only reluctantly to the norms of capitalist work discipline.

If you order a Big Mac, Grand Angus or Chicken Deluxe meal at the McDonald’s in Warilla, Australia between 5pm – 8pm on a Monday or Tuesday, you’ll have the option of having your food served to you on china. We’re talking actual forks and knives accompanying your Mickey D’s burger and fries.

Old restaurant menus are often beautiful works of epicurean art, created as part of the complete sensory dining experience to entertain and awe guests. Reading these menus today is both a form of mini-time travel and a horrifying glance at the food habits of yesteryear.

Steve Palumbi has a few rules when it comes to sushi. If something is labeled tuna, then it probably is, but stay away from the salmon, because it probably isn’t. More likely, it’s steelhead trout—a close relative of salmon.

Rude customers, deluxe espressos and the perfect cup of coffee - all in a day's work for your barista. How do they do it? Here are their best-kept secrets.

Subway customers are whipping out their measuring tapes after Internet postings that claim a short-shrifting of the worldwide chain’s famous footlong sub.