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· Editorial Staff
How Two Chinese Immigrants Built a Billion-Dollar Fast-Food Empire More Successful Than In-N-Out
Panda Express, the beloved fast-casual dining restaurant, was founded by Chinese immigrants who believe treating their employees right is the key to building their now billion dollar empire. The Chinese-American fast food chain made $2 billion in sales in 2015 — three times that…
· Ryan General
Trader Joe’s Ex-President Launches Grocery Store That Sells Healthy Food at Fast-Food Prices
It looks like your common boutique supermarket, and with its aisles brimming with fresh produce and friendly staff assisting customers, it has nearly everything you would find in your typical suburban food store. But under the Whole Foods facade of carrot crates and egg carton…
· Ryan General
Teen Chick-fil-A Employee Shares His Incredible Reason To Keep Working Despite Injury
When a customer at a fast-food outlet in Indianapolis saw one of the restaurant’s staff working behind its cash register wearing a neck brace and arm sling, he decided to take the worker’s photo and his story and share them on Facebook. It turns out, the 18-year-old Chick-fil-A…
· Ryan General
Filipino Woman Becomes an Instant Celebrity For Looking Exactly Like Chloë Grace Moretz
A Filipino fast-food attendant became an instant internet darling after people noticed her uncanny resemblance with Hollywood actress Chloë Grace Moretz. It all started when her candid photo was secretly taken by a Jollibee customer who later uploaded it on Facebook with the…
· Laura Dang
Meet the Vietnamese Immigrants Who Created a Multi-Million Dollar Banh Mi Sandwich Empire
Lee’s Sandwiches, the multi-million dollar Vietnamese banh mi sandwich empire, began as a modest food truck run by a family that arrived in America with little to nothing. Chieu Le, the founder of Lee’s Sandwiches and the eldest of nine children, was in his second year of law…
· Ryan General
Old Chinese Couple Goes on an Epic 19-Day Road Trip Across The U.S. — Becomes Internet Famous
A Chinese couple, who recently completed an epic 19-day, 4,850-mile driving adventure across the United States, warmed hearts online and became media darlings upon their return home to China. Retirees Chen Aiwu, 64, and her husband, Wang Dongsheng, 66, spent several months of…
· Editorial Staff
Why Indian People Absolutely Love Taco Bell
Owing to religious constraints of Hinduism, most Indians consume vegetarian or poultry-based diet. This is why some find it weird that the group, in fact, loves Taco Bell. To shed light over the matter, Indian-American Gaurav Majmudar revealed that their affinity for the fast…
· Editorial Staff
Asian-Americans Have Genes That Make Them Crave Carbs and Fast Food, Study Finds
A study has found that some Asian-Americans crave unhealthy food more often than other Asian-Americans. This unhealthy preference is linked to a gene called DRD2 A1. The said gene is a variation of DRD2 (dopamine receptor D2), a type associated with various forms of addiction.…
· Editorial Staff
The Organic Coup: First All-Organic Fast Food Chain Founded by Costco Execs Raises $7 Million in Funding
A fast-food chain founded by two former Costco executives just raised $7 million in a round of funding that was led by Costco’s founder. The organic chain currently has two restaurants in San Francisco and Pleasanton, California, and is preparing to expand to at least 24 new…
· Editorial Staff
Pranksters Convince Minnesota Burger King Workers to Smash Their Own Store Windows
There’s a new prank that is as much genius as it is evil and destructive — convincing fast food employees to smash their own restaurant windows. It turns out, it’s not all that hard. Last Friday, a man called the Burger King in Coon Rapids, Minn. and told the store manager that…
· Editorial Staff
Someone is Posing as ‘Chipolte’ Customer Service on Facebook and the Results are Hilarious
Chipotle is known for many things from their excellent chicken burrito bowls, speedy lines to their generous portions. However, the casual fast-food chain has been getting a bad rap online as of late after a Facebook account, “Chipolte Mexican Grill”, posed as the company and…
· Laura Dang
Disgusting Video Shows McDonald’s Worker Teasing a Homeless Man With Food
This cruel video of a McDonald’s employee teasing a homeless man with food and throwing cold water in his face will make you downright angry. The heartless prank was caught on video by a customer at the fast-food restaurant in Detroit, Michigan, and was uploaded to LiveLeak on…
· Melly Lee
Inside the Most Popular Chinese Restaurant Amongst Silicon Valley’s Elite
Silicon Valley is known for a multitude of landmarks, including the garages Apple and Google were started in, the Facebook campus, and the IBM Almaden Research Lab. The one landmark, however, that perhaps garners the most universal praise from the best and the brightest of the…
· Jacob Wagner
Chick-fil-A Owner Who Had to Shut Down Restaurant For Five Months Still Paid His Workers
A Chick-fil-A owner recently had to shut down his restaurant for five months due to renovations, but what he announced to his employees beforehand is what shocked them most of all. Jeff Glover is the owner of a Chick-fil-A store in Austin, Texas that employs 50 employees.…
· Jacob Wagner
Dunkin’ Donuts CEO Says $15 Minimum Wage is ‘Absolutely Outrageous’
Dunkin’ Donuts CEO Nigel Travis is not a fan of increasing the minimum wage to something more livable. He told CNN’s Poppy Harlow yesterday that increasing the minimum wage for workers in New York is “absolutely outrageous.”
· Sebastian Dillon
Japanese McDonald’s Founder Explains Why Japanese People are ‘Short and Yellow’
Every now and then, we revisit a part of history that some companies would rather be kept swept under the rug. This story comes from the Japanese entrepreneur and self-made billionaire that brought the first McDonald’s to Japan, Den Fujita. Fujita fell in love with McDonald’s…
· Max Chang
Here’s Why Chipotle’s Tortillas Are Getting More Expensive
When it comes to Chipotle, there are only two facts we know to be constant in the universe: The guac always costs extra, and the price of their burritos is slowly increasing. About a year ago, we saw their first price increase in three years. Now another menu item, their…
· Benny Luo
We Tried McDonald’s New ‘Build Your Burger’ Concept and…
Earlier this month, McDonald’s posted their worst sales decline in a decade. A large part of the decline can be attributed to the fact that the fast food chain has continued to fail at appealing to millennial customers. This has resulted in the fast food company losing most of…
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