Fast-food employees are struggling to afford necessities and a recent report shows they must work more than twice as many hours as the average worker just to afford the meals they serve. It ...

The Los Angeles City Council voted Wednesday to look into how it could expand rights on the job for fast food workers and establish a "Know Your Rights" training program for the industry. In 2022, the ...

A mother and daughter who said they were fired from a fast food restaurant in San José for protesting working conditions rallied Wednesday alongside community members, officials and union ...

Edgar Recinos no longer has to choose between paying rent and buying groceries. As a cook at a Wingstop restaurant in Los Angeles, Recinos got a significant wage bump last year — one of half a million ...

Food safety is a high priority when it comes to eating out, so it's no surprise that some diners are put off by watching fast food workers preparing meals without wearing gloves. According to the CDC, ...

Fast food restaurants around the U.S. have dived headfirst into artificial intelligence, looking to automation to solve everything from rising labor costs to speeding up drive-thrus and improving the ...

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