Robots that grill meat, slice tomatoes, stir-fry vegetables and stretch pizza dough are making fast food even faster, but can you trust a chef who's never tasted the food it creates? There is a distinct lack of chopping, smoke, sweating or swearing in the kitchen at Creator, a new burger restaurant in San Francisco. Instead, there is faint whirring and, if you really listen, the muffled sound of grinding and distant sizzling. It’s because the chefs here are not human.

Lucy Brady, senior vice president of corporate strategy at McDonald’s, spoke about the chain’s upcoming business strategies this week at Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Next Gen Summit in California. Brady explained that McDonald’s is exploring various consumer trends, such as shifting consumer demand towards plant-based foods and opting to cook meals at home.

Golden Corral is about to have a very terrible week after a video exposing its unsanitary health-inspection measures surfaced online.

A UN report says Mexicans are the heaviest of the world's larger nations, even as they battle hunger and malnutrition. How did it come to this?

McDonald's kicked off its annual Monopoly sweepstakes today, so of course we are thrilled to devour the stats.

f you’re Banksy you have a very dim view of advertising in general, but sometimes ads really can have the power to entertain, impress and truly command your attention. But then there’s the worst kind, not the ones pushing dodgy products that you know don’t work or will fall apart 2 hours after buying them, we’re talking about those advertisement that are smug enough to lie to your face and hope you believe them.

It's funny because it's true.

McDonald's breakfast notoriously ends at 10:30 a.m. at most locations. After years of public outcry, the brand has started offering some items after midnight. CEO Don Thompson also said that the fast food giant was flirting with the idea of all-day breakfast.

If you are one of those people who just crave for fast food meals, you should not feel bad for yourself. There is nothing bad in eating fast food meals occasionally. However, it is pretty bad if you don’t leave out certain meals which may badly affect your overall health.

IN-N-OUT Burger Please..... and which one do you visit ?

Low-wage workers at fast food restaurants like McDonald’s and retailers such as Macy’s are gearing up for a nationwide strike just before Labor Day weekend.

A Toledo woman, Melodi Dushane, loves McNuggets. According to a Toledo police report, she loves them so much that when she found out a local McDonald's was not serving them at 6:30 AM that's breakfast menu time, sister, she became outraged and punched the drive-thru attendant.

Kentucky Fried Chicken Japan is currently offering fried soup, a strange limited-time concoction that makes deep-fried fritters out of balls of creamy corn potage soup. RocketNews24 reports that corn potage soup is currently very trendy in Japan and that KFC was inspired to create the fried soup from a recipe for potato bacon fritters discovered in founder Colonel Sanders‘ autobiography.

The fast food giant is testing a mobile payment application in Salt Lake City, Utah, and Austin, Texas, according to Bloomberg. With the app, you can order ahead and pick up your food at drive-thru windows, curbside or in the restaurant.

Dennis Rosenlof has been eating 10 Big Macs a week for 30 years.

If you’re like me and watch far too much television, this summer’s pretzel roll ads felt like salty lasers incessantly burning their promotions into your hungry heart. No fewer than five large American restaurant chains peddled an offering encased in a pretzel-like bread.

Hold the fries, pass the salad. McDonald's Corp on Thursday said it would offer healthy options as part of its popular value meals, letting customers choose a side salad, fruit or vegetables instead of french fries.

Researchers tried to find out what was in chicken nuggets from two fast food chains, with disconcerting results.

Claiming that this drink is "pumpkin spiced" is misleading.

McDonald's is revamping its Dollar Menu and renaming it Dollar Menu & More - a move that will add pricier items to its value offering. The company's CEO Don Thompson said on its third-quarter earnings call Monday morning that the menu will be rolled out nationally and supported by national advertising dollars.

McDonald’s said Friday it was dropping ketchup king Heinz as a supplier of the key hamburger condiment, citing management changes at Heinz that put the company closer to rival Burger King. McDonald?s said it was ending a relationship of over 40 years as it axed Heinz from its supplier list.

This easy leftover pumpkin recipe is a great way to round off your Halloween week. It's from Jamie Oliver's Fifteen Minute meals book so can be knocked up in no time at all. Just make sure you do it with the lights on.....

A world where we could eat takeout every single night, without the consequences of cost or calories, would be a wonderful world. Alas it is not the world we live in, but Zesty is working to make takeout food less terrible for you.

McDonalds is considering installing 3D printers in its stores to produce the pocket-sized toys which are a key part of their Happy Meals.

Heart-clogging trans fats have been slowly disappearing from grocery aisles and restaurant menus in the last decade. Now, the Food and Drug Administration is finishing the job.

Wedging White Castle burgers into his mouth has admittedly never been a problem for a 290-pound stockbroker from New York. Trying to wedge himself into a seat at his local White Castle, however, has him mad enough to sue.

After being fired for refusing to open his restaurant on Thanksgiving, a Pizza Hut manager has his job back. Tony Rohr, who worked his way up from cook to general manager at the company, was told it was mandatory to keep his Elkhart, Ind., store open on the holiday.

This Thursday, fast-food workers in more than 100 cities are planning a one-day strike to demand a "livable" wage of $15 an hour. They have a point: The lowest-paid Americans are struggling to keep up with the cost of living—and they have seen none of the gains experienced by the country's top earners. While average incomes of the top 1 percent grew more than 270 percent since 1960, those of the bottom 90 percent grew 22 percent.

In a post on its employee website, McDonald’s gave some particularly tone-deaf holiday tipping advice to its employees, suggesting what they might give to an au pair or a pool cleaner as a holiday bonus.

McDonald's, Burger King, Wendy's, Taco Bell -- which one are you craving today? It's pretty likely that you have a favorite fast food chain and that you love many of the tasty options offered at these restaurants.

The recent strikes show just how untenable the current makeup of the fast-food labor force really is.

This fall, McDonald's introduced Mighty Wings, those seasoning sticks vaguely flavored like chicken. Remember those commercials with Joe Flacco and Colin Kaepernick? They threw footballs for wings! What a world! Anyway, the promotion started with an inventory of 50 million pounds of wings, and there are still 10 million left in frozen storage.

It seems that McDonald's has finally realized how tone-deaf its internal employee resource website was. It has shut it down. The final straw? A tip on the site to employees to avoid McDonald's fare. A graphic on the site shows a meal with a cheeseburger, fries and drink under the caption "Unhealthy choice." Next to it is a picture of a sub, a salad and water under the caption "Healthier choice."

Science teacher goes on McDonald's-only diet to prove it's not where you eat, but what you eat (and how much you exercise) that matters.

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.