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  • A plate of buffalo chicken wingsRetail

    Restaurants scramble to serve enough chicken wings ahead of Super Bowl Sunday

    By Leslie Patton, Michael Hirtzer, and others
  • McDonald's signRetail

    McDonald’s doesn’t want to disclose a racial audit because it faces lawsuits from hundreds of Black franchisees

    By Leslie Patton and Bloomberg
  • KFCRetail

    Beyond Meat shares surge 4% as KFC nears launch of plant-based chicken

    By Leslie Patton, Catherine Larkin, and others
  • Chipotle unveils plant-based chorizoRetail

    Chipotle’s plant-based chorizo will be sold for a limited time in the U.S.

    By Leslie Patton, Deena Shanker, and others
  • Starbucks baristaRetail

    Starbucks tells U.S. employees to get vaccinated by Feb. 9 or face weekly testing

    By Leslie Patton and Bloomberg
  • McDonald's employees at workRetail

    McDonald’s commits to add more Black and female franchisees in the U.S.

    By Leslie Patton and Bloomberg
  • A farmer checks on coffee plants destroyed by frost during extremely low temperatures near Caconde, Sao Paulo state, Brazil, on Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2021. Extreme weather is slamming crops across the globe, bringing with it the threat of further food inflation at a time costs are already hovering near the highest in a decade and hunger is on the rise. Photographer: Jonne Roriz/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesEnvironment

    Fire, frost and drought are ravaging the country that makes breakfast for the world

    By Peter Millard, Fabiana Batista, and others
  • A bucket of fried chicken is arranged for a photograph at a Yum! Brands Inc. Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) restaurant in Norwell, Massachusetts, U.S., on Thursday, July 25, 2019. Yum! Brands is scheduled to release earnings figures on August 1. Photographer: Scott Eisen/BloombergRetail

    KFC believes the future of fried chicken in America is plant-based

    By Leslie Patton and Bloomberg
  • HONG KONG, CHINA – 2020/09/21: American fast food chicken restaurant chain Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) seen in Hong Kong. (Photo by Budrul Chukrut/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)Retail

    KFC is not advertising its ‘finger lickin’ good’ chicken tenders due to supply shortage

    By Leslie Patton and Bloomberg
  • MILTON, PENNSYLVANIA, UNITED STATES – 2021/08/04: A Burger King restaurant seen in Milton. (Photo by Paul Weaver/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)Retail

    Burger King, Popeyes owner says labor shortage is driving up beef costs

    By Leslie Patton and Bloomberg
  • A “Now Hiring” sign is displayed outside a Starbucks coffee shop in Glendale, California, July 7, 2021. – The U.S. Labor Department reported July 7, 2021 that the number of available jobs at the end of May rose to 9.21 million, a record-high number of open jobs for the second straight month as a quickly rebounding economy drives intense demand for workers. (Photo by Robyn Beck / AFP) (Photo by ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images)Finance

    American workers now have the upper hand as employers rush to raise hourly wages

    By Jordyn Holman, Leslie Patton, and others
  • CHICAGO, ILLINOIS – MAY 06: A chicken sandwich from Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen is shown on May 06, 2021 in Chicago, Illinois. Chicken prices have risen sharply this year as suppliers struggle to keep up with demand, fueled in part, by the popularity of new chicken offerings from fast-food restaurants. (Photo Illustration by Scott Olson/Getty Images)Retail

    Hoping to meet the demands of chicken lovers everywhere, Popeyes prepares to debut its own line of nuggets

    By Leslie Patton and Bloomberg
  • Beyond meat plant based products seen at a grocery store in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on June 24, 2021. Canadian families can expect to pay $695 more for food in 2021 as food prices continue to rise across the country. (Photo by Creative Touch Imaging Ltd./NurPhoto)Retail

    Beyond Meat looks to expand with its own line of plant-based chicken tenders

    By Deena Shanker, Leslie Patton, and others
  • KIEV, UKRAINE – 2021/03/06: KFC (Kentucky Fried Chicken) logo of the US fast food restaurant chain seen over the entrance to a KFC restaurant in Kiev. (Photo by Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)Retail

    Fried chicken craze is causing a poultry shortage in the U.S.

    By Leslie Patton, Deena Shanker, and others
  • PoPeyes Fried Chicken Store Opens in ShanghaiInternational

    Can Popeyes threaten KFC’s dominance in China? It’s going to try

    By Leslie Patton and Bloomberg