fast-food restaurant

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Figures from the market-research firm Datassential cited by the Wall Street Journal last year showed that bone-in fried-chicken offerings on U.S. fast-food restaurant menus had fallen 72% over the previous four years.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 16, 2026

When that man brought him to a fast-food restaurant and ordered hamburgers, Ahmad remembered, “I told him, ‘I don’t eat pork.’

From Slate • Apr. 19, 2026

To people across the internet, this was a guy who knew his way around a fast-food restaurant.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 7, 2026

When confronted about the lack of food by a county monitoring team, the indictment alleged, Soofer “ran to a McDonald’s fast-food restaurant and came back with bags of food to give participants for lunch.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 23, 2026

My family and I were going to share our separate processed meals, from a fast-food restaurant at the end of the industrial food chain.

From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan