Sushi place that uses a well laid out conveyor belt system to serve the maximum amount of customers with quality sushi at the cheapest possible cost.

As Chipotle’s multistate E. coli nightmare continues, food safety advocates say the outbreak was destined to happen. By Samantha Allen.

Kristen Bieler on Grape Collective interviews critic Jancis Robinson and talks natural wine, the importance of “points” and the rise of the hipster sommelier.

In Japan, sushi is more than a delicious meal—it’s a revered art form. If your definition of the delicacy is California rolls with soy sauce and "wasabi" (a.k.a. horseradish and food dye), take a look at this visual guide below, from Japanese hotel Swissotel Nankai in Osaka. The helpful infographic was created for guests unfamiliar with the ins-and-outs of Japan’s most iconic cuisine. While U.S. restaurant patrons may be used to drowning their sushi in soy sauce...

Welcome back to Behind Closed Ovens, where we take a look at the best and strangest stories from inside the food industry. This week, we bring you the best BCO submissions of 2015. As always, these are real e-mails from real readers.

"American" Kobe beef is code for "add eight bucks."

The lavishly restored Clifton's Cafeteria downtown features a neon sign that reads "Living History."

Burger King could become the first fast food chain to sell alcohol in its UK restaurants. The popular eatery plans to sell American beers in plastic bottles from this month onwards. The beverages are only to be consumed on restaurant premises. It has applied for drinks licences at just four branches so far, in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Blackpool, Hull and Bury St Edmunds. If granted, Burger King will be able to sell alcohol from 10am to 11pm seven days a week...

Restaurant owners in Paris say they could be put out of business by chefs who are catering for diners in their own homes.

Margaux’s Restaurant in Raleigh, North Carolina has been combining their ever changing menu with impeccable service to create an unforgettable dining experience. http://margauxsrestaurant.com

While the big cities have some excellent restaurants, there are actually some fantastic restaurants in small towns. We are profiling some of the very best.

Hobbit Restaurant in Orange is one of California's Premier Fine Dining Restaurants. The Hobbit Experience includes an entire evening revolving around a fixed menu and superlative service in an elegant, traditional location with one of the largest wine cellars in the United States.

McDonald’s Corp. plans to start selling all-day breakfast across the U.S. on Oct. 6, aiming to reinvigorate sluggish sales by fulfilling a longstanding customer request. The company’s franchisees have voted to approve the plan and it’s being implemented nationwide, according to a statement from McDonald’s spokeswoman Lisa McComb. The move -- the company’s biggest menu change in years -- follows months of testing the idea at various locations.

Those sick and tired of having to deal with their fellow humans all the time have a new respite – a fully automated restaurant in San Francisco. Customers at Eatsa in the Financial District will order from an iPad, sending the order to the kitchen. When the meal is ready, it appears in a small glass compartment. The food is prepared by real people, but the patrons never have to see them.

I must admit that I fully expected to dislike Eatsa, a new restaurant slated to open next week in San Francisco with a sleek, 21st-century take on the famous Horn & Hardart Automat. In the late 1980s, when I was a summer intern in New York, working in the Daily News Building, the last remaining Horn & Hardart Automat was right around the corner. The cafeteria chain that operated in Philadelphia and New York was in its twilight then...

Since New York raised its minimum wage for fast food workers in July, there’s been a lot of talk about how the Fight for 15 would hurt low-income workers by destroying jobs and ruining lives. But in 2015 there’s a new angle to this that’s different than every other wage hike in American history that could be even more ruinous for fast-food workers: The possibility that restaurants can entirely replace them with a robot staff.

The supreme leader of Iran went off about American influence in his country, saying that even with a newly struck nuclear deal, they will "block all attempts of penetration of Iran." Much of the concern seems to revolve around American culture seeping into Iran — like the knockoff fast food restaurants that have popped up in the country.

The dimly lit dining room at Pacific Dining Car is a space out of time. The luminescent skyscrapers of Los Angeles may loom over the restaurant, but once inside, you're in 1946.

Chick-fil-A owner Jeff Glover hugs an employee. A Chick-fil-A owner recently had to shut down his Austin, Texas, restaurant for five months for renovations. Instead of temporarily laying off his 50 workers, Jeff Glover shocked his staff by continuing to pay them during the entire five months the restaurant would be closed. Glover even gave them a $1-per-hour raise for sticking with him.