Think Debtors Prisons Are a Thing of the Past? Not in Mississippi.
How the state’s “restitution program” forces poor people to work off small debts.
Fast Food
How an Ex-Cop Rigged McDonald’s Monopoly Game and Stole Millions
Jerome Jacobson and his network of mobsters, psychics, strip club owners, and drug traffickers won almost every prize for 12 years, until the FBI launched Operation ‘Final Answer.’
He Could’ve Been a Colonel
The hamburgers at Ollie’s Trolley are among the best in the world. With all that flavor, why aren’t there Trolleys all over the South—all over the nation, even? Maybe the world wasn’t ready for a guy like Ollie Gleichenhaus.
Cooking Lessons
Disillusioned with fine dining, one of the world’s great chefs took on fast food. It has been harder than he ever imagined.
Chipotle Eats Itself
Chipotle once fed the equivalent of the population of Philadelphia every day. Then the E. coli outbreak happened.
The People’s Cheeseburger
“The most important fast food restaurant in America is a radical burger joint in Watts.”
One Day at Panda Express
How a fast-food restaurant does business.
For Hardee’s Workers, It’s Not a Parable, It’s a Job
Fast food used to be a transitional, temporary work. In Creston, Iowa, it has become a career.
The Company Man
The rise and fall of former McDonald’s CEO Don Thompson.
Fallen Arches
What happened to McDonald’s?
Dignity
Inside the fast-food labor protests.
Burger King Is Run by Children
The CEO is 32. The CFO is 28. Their startup is the second-largest burger chain in the country.
The Minimum Wage Worker Strikes Back
On the fast food workers of St. Louis.
KFC's Big Game of Chicken
How KFC brought fried chicken to China and Africa as U.S. sales slumped.
Why McDonald’s Fries Taste So Good
Mysterious, man-made “natural flavor” explains why most fast food—indeed, most of the food Americans eat—tastes the way it does. An early excerpt from Fast Food Nation.
