I think I’ve had Arby’s no more than twice in my life. Part of the reason is because I have never lived near one. Also I’ve just never thought, ‘Wow, that [insert Arby's menu item] sounds fantastic and I need to drive out of my way to have it.’ The only time I ever hear [...]

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  If you thought the food offered at many fast food joints couldn’t get any worse, just wait. As I read in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal, McDonald’s, Wendy’s, and other prominent chains are in a bidding war to hit the lowest rung on the pricing ladder. Apparently, ordering from the dollar menu has gotten a little too [...]

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If I’m going to get up in time for Carl’s Jr. breakfast, I need to get to sleep 2 hours ago, I thought to myself sometime in the dark hours of Thursday morning. I had just finished knocking a few of last week’s shows off the DVR (I’m way behind after a fantastic vacation in [...]

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Sometimes it only takes one badly executed ad campaign to derail any momentum a business is enjoying. In some cases, they never manage to recover. Case in point: Soulvaki Hut in Australia.  Founded in 2005, it was the darling of top franchise lists down under for many years until this television commercial surfaced. Since then, the [...]

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We take so many things for granted in the US – our freedom, our diversity, and of course, our access to portable french fry holders. Sadly, our comrades in Japan have never had the luxury of possessing a device customized for holding the best genetically modified food for salt, fat and sugar delivery. That is, [...]

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On Friday, friend of So Good, Serious Eats dropped a little bit of knowledge about the breakfast experience at McDonald’s. The info was that customers can ask to swap out the folded egg-type-thing for an actual egg, on muffins, biscuits, etc., at no cost. While an interesting tip, I started thinking about the larger issue [...]

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Last year when Taco Bell unleashed the Nacho Cheese Doritos Locos Taco on us, we were helpless, awe-struck by its cheesy, crunchy goodness. Two of our guiltiest pleasures, Taco Bell and Doritos, collided, creating a fast food sensation unlike any we’ve ever seen. The idea was so brilliant, yet so simple. On paper, it’s really [...]

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A few years ago, a Sonic opened about 5 minutes from my house. I had only been to a Sonic once in my life, and all I had was a delicious Lemon Berry Slush. I was excited to have yet another fast food option nearby. So was the rest of the neighborhood, because for at [...]

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Fast food titan Wendy’s, who recently passed Burger King to become second in the country in total fast food sales, is rolling out a new logo starting in March. The logo ditches the yellow seen in the last two iterations, switches to a distinctly different font and appears to emphasize Wendy’s freckles a tad more [...]

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In case you missed it, since Twitter has now suspended the account, perhaps until social media managers get back from their long weekend, Burger King’s account got royally robbled today via hackers. The cyber pranksters  changed Bk’s avatar and name to “McDonalds” and went on to send out a deluge of saucy, profanity laced tweets [...]

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