OKLAHOMA CITY, Oct. 28 (UPI) -- Troy Smith, the Oklahoma entrepreneur who built a drive-in in Shawnee to the Sonic fast-food chain, has died at 87.
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Dec. 18 (UPI) -- Fast-food and table-service meals at restaurants are both larger and have more calories than meals prepared at home, U.S. researchers have learned.
SANFORD, Fla., April 30 (UPI) -- Health inspectors said a Sanford, Fla., fast-food restaurant was found to have been storing hamburger buns on the floor of the men's room.
NEW YORK, May 14 (UPI) -- Healthy eating and restaurant hygiene are some of the top concerns of U.S. restaurant and fast-food consumers, according to a Zagat.com poll.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 25 (UPI) -- A U.S. restaurant group said it is concerned about a Super Bowl ad for Nationwide insurance featuring rapper Kevin Federline working in a fast-food restaurant.
PITTSBURGH, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- A survey of U.S. hospitals with pediatric training programs finds that about one-third of them have fast-food restaurants on the premises.
NEW YORK, Feb. 11 (UPI) -- Two New York City restaurants served side dishes of cocaine that amounted to about $250,000 a week, prosecutors said.
RESTON, Va., Jan. 22 (UPI) -- U.S. fast-food restaurant patrons may stereotypically be younger and less affluent, but they favor healthier foods the most, a survey says.
CHICAGO, Aug. 24 (UPI) -- Chicago schools' efforts to eliminate junk food are undermined by 79 fast-food chains clustered around some 1,300 schools, Massachusetts researchers say.
WASHINGTON, June 18 (UPI) -- The popular fast-food restaurant practice of "supersizing" -- increasing portion size for just a few cents more -- tacks on significantly more calories consumers may not be aware of and contributes to the U.S. epidemic of obesity, several consumer advocac
