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
The fast-food restaurant owner on Wednesday posted a profit of $432 million, or $1.55 a share, in the quarter ended March 31, compared with $253 million, or 90 cents a share, a year earlier.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 29, 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
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
When the new Jack’s fast-food restaurant opened near our home, we begged to go there to buy French fries.
From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry
