Fast Food Giants Gorge on Subsidies

Fast Food Giants Gorge on Subsidies

The fast food industry is notorious for handing out lean paychecks to their burger flippers and fat ones to their CEOs. What’s less well-known is that taxpayers are actually subsidizing fast food incomes at both the bottom — and top — of the industry. Take, for...
Waiting for Wendy’s

Waiting for Wendy’s

Don’t eat at Wendy’s this week. Across the country, people are picketing restaurants, calling corporate offices, and signing petitions against the fast food chain through August 11. What’s this Week of Action against Wendy’s about? For years,...
Wendy’s ‘Improved’ Burger

Wendy’s ‘Improved’ Burger

At first blush, you might think that “Dave’s Hot ‘N Juicy” is the title of a pornographic movie. Actually, it’s only a hamburger. Well, not just any old hamburger. The Hot ‘N Juicy is fast food giant Wendy’s reinvented burger....