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Fast Food

Crime

Think Debtors Prisons Are a Thing of the Past? Not in Mississippi.

How the state’s “restitution program” forces poor people to work off small debts.

Anna Wolfe, Michelle Liu The Marshall Project, Mississippi Today Jan 2020 15min Permalink

Best Article Crime

How an Ex-Cop Rigged McDonald’s Monopoly Game and Stole Millions

Jerome Jacobson and his network of mobsters, psychics, strip club owners, and drug traffickers won almost every prize for 12 years, until the FBI launched Operation ‘Final Answer.’

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Jeff Maysh Daily Beast Jul 2018 35min Permalink

Food

He Could’ve Been a Colonel

The hamburgers at Ollie’s Trolley are among the best in the world. With all that flavor, why aren’t there Trolleys all over the South—all over the nation, even? Maybe the world wasn’t ready for a guy like Ollie Gleichenhaus.

Keith Pandolfi Bitter Southerner Jun 2018 15min Permalink

Food

Cooking Lessons

Disillusioned with fine dining, one of the world’s great chefs took on fast food. It has been harder than he ever imagined.

Daniel Duane California Sunday Mar 2017 20min Permalink

Business Food

Chipotle Eats Itself

Chipotle once fed the equivalent of the population of Philadelphia every day. Then the E. coli outbreak happened.

Austin Carr Fast Company Oct 2016 1h5min Permalink

Food

The People’s Cheeseburger

“The most important fast food restaurant in America is a radical burger joint in Watts.”

Willy Blackmore Eater Sep 2016 20min Permalink

Food

One Day at Panda Express

How a fast-food restaurant does business.

Eater Oct 2015 15min Permalink

Business

For Hardee’s Workers, It’s Not a Parable, It’s a Job

Fast food used to be a transitional, temporary work. In Creston, Iowa, it has become a career.

Anne Hull Washington Post Mar 2015 10min Permalink

Arts Business Food

The Company Man

The rise and fall of former McDonald’s CEO Don Thompson.

Ben Austen Chicago Mar 2015 20min Permalink

Arts Business Food

Fallen Arches

What happened to McDonald’s?

Beth Kowitt Fortune Nov 2014 15min Permalink

Dignity

Inside the fast-food labor protests.

William Finnegan New Yorker Sep 2014 30min Permalink

Arts Business Food

Burger King Is Run by Children

The CEO is 32. The CFO is 28. Their startup is the second-largest burger chain in the country.

Devin Leonard Businessweek Jul 2014 15min Permalink

Business

The Minimum Wage Worker Strikes Back

On the fast food workers of St. Louis.

Sarah Kendzior Medium Apr 2014 20min Permalink

Arts World Food

KFC's Big Game of Chicken

How KFC brought fried chicken to China and Africa as U.S. sales slumped.

Diane Brady Businessweek Mar 2012 10min Permalink

Arts Food

Why McDonald’s Fries Taste So Good

Mysterious, man-made “natural flavor” explains why most fast food—indeed, most of the food Americans eat—tastes the way it does. An early excerpt from Fast Food Nation.

Eric Schlosser The Atlantic Jan 2001 20min Permalink