fast-food restaurant

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The fast-food restaurant owner on Wednesday posted a profit of $432 million, or $1.55 a share, in the quarter ended March 31, compared with $253 million, or 90 cents a share, a year earlier.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 29, 2026

When that man brought him to a fast-food restaurant and ordered hamburgers, Ahmad remembered, “I told him, ‘I don’t eat pork.’

From Slate • Apr. 19, 2026

When confronted about the lack of food by a county monitoring team, the indictment alleged, Soofer “ran to a McDonald’s fast-food restaurant and came back with bags of food to give participants for lunch.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 23, 2026

The trend of cautious spending has affected the fast-food restaurant industry as a whole in recent months.

From BBC • Nov. 4, 2025

She worked at a fast-food restaurant, rising to assistant manager but never making much more than minimum wage.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times