A few days ago, Consumerist had a blog post showing an interesting map alleging to show the concentration of fast-food burger joints across the U.S.

The Consumerist post is based off an “Infographic of the Day” post from the magazine Fast Company.  The map above appears to show a far less dominant market position for McDonald’s [...]

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Taco Bell has unveiled a new offering which they are calling the  “NBA $5 Buck Box.”  Someone should explain to Taco Bell that the $ symbol represents the word “dollar” so they don’t need to also include the word “buck” in the name.   Think about it, the proper name of this product when said correctly [...]

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A glowing review of the fast food chain, except for those mean fryer girls:

Thanks to @agencyspy.

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Apparently, fat, drunk and stupid actually is the way to go through life – at least according to Burger King.  BK, the creator of such brilliant concepts as “Singing in the Shower” and “Burger Shots,” today announced that they will start serving beer along with their plethora of food-like products in mid-February at a trial [...]

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Rad Omen. Who are they again? I have no idea either. Their Twitter and MySpace accounts are totally inactive, but apparently they are some sort band/group/music collective.   Regardless of who the hell they are, their latest video, for their song “Rad Anthem”, directed by  Nicholaus Goossen (who was the director of “Grandma’s Boy” and [...]

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This Australian TV commercial for KFC is officially titled “KFC Cricket Survival Guide.” It features a white Australian cricket fan, who, realizing all the fans around him are black and rooting for the opponent, offers up  “a tip when you’re stuck in an awkward situation.” What happens next? He offers the people around him a [...]

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Earlier this month, the United Kingdom division of Burger King put up a new page on its website called “Singing in the Shower”, featuring a “Shower Babe” who you could view live each morning singing a song while lathering up and  showering in a bikini.

In case you miss it live, the site lets you replay [...]

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Kim Kardashian is, in fact, naked in her new ad for Carl’s Jr., although you don’t get to see anything fun, merely her back as she slides into a bubble bath while eating the new Carl’s Jr Cranberry, Apple & Walnut Grilled Chicken Salad. This continues Carl’s Jr’s strategy to get the most of its [...]

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For those of you who haven’t yet heard about Eating the Road, it’s a fun little food blog that has gotten some attention for their positively awesome flowcharts. If you haven’t seen any of them, lets start by checking out their Fast Food edition. Don’t let it melt your eyes when you first look at [...]

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Burger King has been testing the $1 Double Cheeseburger in various markets for the past 18 months, and as of today, unveiled it nationally. After fighting tooth and nail against it, franchise owners seem to have relented, and BK is talking tough about the superiority of their Double Cheeseburger:
“With more beef and cheese, the $1 [...]

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I always get mildly depressed by ideas that want to seem original, yet are just rehashed garbage. Enter McDonald’s and the product that they’ve been testing in certain markets for the last few months: the Mac Snack Wrap, previously mentioned on So Good here.  This is essentially a Big Mac without the bun, wrapped in [...]

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Before I get into explaining why I didn’t write about this sooner, I want to emphasize something right out of the gate: THIS SHIT IS REAL. Seriously. REAL.  Ladies and gentlemen, the KFC Double Down Sandwich:

Yes, it’s a “sandwich” containing bacon, cheese and Colonel’s sauce, with two fried chicken patties serving as the bread.  Now [...]

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We’ve already covered the Top Ten Fast Food Chains, as well as  #11 – #20, # 21 – #30 and #31 – #40.
These are the final 10 stores on the list of the QSR 50.
Once again, this list is determined by total dollar sales.

41 Jimmy John’s
42 Captain D’s
43 Jason’s Deli
44 Qdoba
45 Jamba Juice
46 Cold [...]

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We’ve already covered the Top Ten Fast Food Chains, as well as  #11 – #20 and # 21 – #30. Today it’s on to #31 – #40 as we get close to rounding out our top 50.
Once again, this list is determined by total dollar sales.

31 Boston Market
32 Culvers
33 El Pollo Loco
34 Bojangles’
35 Papa Murphy’s
36 [...]

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We’ve already covered the Top Ten Fast Food Chains, as well as  Top Fast Food Chains #11 – #20. Today it’s on to #21 – #30.
Once again, this list is determined by total dollar sales.

21 Carl’s Jr.
22 Chipotle
23 Panda Express
24 Whataburger
25 Church’s Chicken
26 Little Caesars
27 Long John Silver’s
28 Steak n Shake
29 Zaxby’s
30 Checkers/Rally’s

Wow. Who knew that Little Caesars still had enough stores open to clock [...]

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Last week my post about the Top Ten Fast Food Chains got a pretty good response, proving the old axiom “people love top ten lists.”  So I thought I’d follow up be delving a little deeper and look at the next 10 restaurants on the list.  The list is according to total $$ sales, just [...]

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Technically these are defined as QSR (Quick Service Restaurants).  The QSR 50, an annual ranking of the top QSR chains just came out this week. The rankings are compiled based on raw sales by dollar amount.  Three changes in the top ten this year, as Subway moved ahead of Burger King to become #2, Starbucks [...]

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Continuing the new 2009 tradition of Presidents visiting popular local burger joints, this past weekend fmr. President Bill Clinton paid a visit to Z Burger (see my review HERE). The irony? He was in town to speak at a conference on obesity prevention and control.

So what did Bill Clinton order? A double hamburger with all [...]

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SilentSketcher has re-imagined fast food chain mascots/owners as mafia members. Pretty awesome.  SilentSketcher says he’s working on a new version to add onto his original five, and may make prints of this available. Do it! I’ll buy one!

Update: Also from the site Deviant Art is this cool imagining of fast food mascots as characters in [...]

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If you’re anything like me, you enjoy an online existence.  Said existence involves not working, reading news, humor websites, screwing with people on 4chan, and trying not to read message boards on political sites.  We are inundated with advertisements and people propping up their causes, whether silly or not.  New memes like Failblog and LOLcats [...]

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