Amy McCarthy is a former reporter at Eater, focusing on pop culture, policy and labor, and only the weirdest online trends. When you pull up to the speaker box in the drive-thru at chains like Wendy’s ...

FIRST ON FOX: U.S. taxpayers are footing nearly $250 million a year in SNAP benefits spent on fast-food meals across just nine states, most of which are blue states, according to Republican Iowa Sen.

Like Subway's $5 footlong, affordable fast food may soon be a thing of the past. The average price of fast food in larger U.S. cities is now in the double digits, with the typical meal costing $11.56, ...

Five days a week, up to two dozen kids commute to the Irving Park YMCA after school to learn how to live and eat for good health. The Fit Fast Food program allows them to exercise for an extra hour, ...

Decades before McDonald's, there was White Castle. Historians credit the hamburger chain with creating the modern fast-food industry as we know it. The legend goes that White Castle founder Walter ...