Advice for fast food servers: Don't mess with someone's BBQ Bacon Double Jr Cheeseburger Deluxe, or you might regret it. Just ask the Michigan Wendy's drive-thru employee who fought back against obnoxious customers, and set off a huge brawl.

Subway is gross, but just in case you live in Illinois and want to "take a bite out of summer," perhaps you should think twice—60 people who have eaten there are reported to have Salmonella poisoning. [FPJ]

KFC knows how to do three things: 1. Get lots of PR for its terrifying chicken-byproduct products; 2. Lose money; and 3. Make comical "branding" statements, while doing items one and two. Wait'll you catch the new tagline!

"Where's the beef?" That will likely be exclaimed when you learn that our nation's fast food industry is facing a new crisis: beef is not so cheap these days. Not to worry! Fast food chains have many other "delicious" options.

True story: just last week, we wished upon a star that Meme Roth, terribly entertaining psycho anti-fat Food Nazi Mom, would do something new, just so we could resurrect her here. Last night she was on teevee, angry about food!

Did you know that traders at the troubled investment bank are legendary health nuts? It's true! So could a fastfood eating contest between 10 mortgage traders at the firm have lead to the housing market collapse of 2007?

Earlier this week, many of you were angry to learn that a Double Down sandwich is healthier for you than a salad. Now the philanthropic Colonel Sanders is going to wipe out breast cancer, by selling you fried chicken!

You might as well throw that Wendy's salad away and go for what you're really craving. Consumerist has a list of 10 fast food items that have higher calorie and fat counts than KFC's new artery-busting sandwich. Three are "salads."

KFC's nasty Double Down sandwich was the buzziest product rollout since KFC's Oprah-sponsored Grilled Chicken fiasco last year—which helped KFC lose $4.9 billion in sales and 1.7 market share points in 2009. This time is different, though. [AdAge]

According to a new study, health insurance companies invest $1.9 billion in the largest fast food chains. Last year, a study found they invested $4.5 billion in tobacco. Why don't they just pay cabbies to run people over, too? [CNN]

Here in America, Starbucks has already transformed itself from a safe haven for aspirational faux-yuppies into a place for hobos to hang out. But abroad, Starbucks' slate is still clean. China and India: Starbucks is coming for your culture money.

The "Double Down," a new menu option from KFC, is your standard grilled-cheese-and-bacon sandwich, except they've replaced the bread. With two hunks of fried chicken. What else can be replaced by fried chicken? We explore the wondrous possibilities.

An enraged customer crawled through the drive-thru window of a South Brunswick McDonald's because his Fish-O-Filet sandwich was taking too long. Inside the restaurant he assaulted an employee, shouted threats, then absconded with his food.

Rappers C-Stone and Paul Wall witnessed a brawl over a cheeseburger at a Texas Whataburger, and kindly videotaped the event, which includes a rotund man yelling "Fuck you and your cheeseburger!" and losing his gym shorts during a tackle.

Health food manufacturer and exponentially dimensionalized fulcrum of universal gravity PepsiCo is investing hundreds of millions of dollars in an effort to make America healthier, with things like "designer" salt crystals for Lay's potato chips. What else could they do?

Woman leaves McDonald's Happy Meal sitting out for an entire year, food barely decomposes.

Four times, Texas pastor Jesse Martin has traveled to grand openings of Chik-fil-A restaurants—even camping overnight—to win a free year's supply of Chik-fil-A food. His passion for chicken burns so bright it seems to discomfit even Chik-fil-A itself.

White Castle is, without a doubt, the most depressing fast food chain out there. Lifeless white walls, sad, grayish burgers, and unhappy employees. Everything about it just screams depressing dining experience. Last night's Undercover Boss confirmed this.

If you order a Big Mac, does the cook start flinging buns around with fervor and enthusiasm? No, you just hope it comes without spit. Well in India they do fast food the way it's meant to be done.

A short history: Starbucks owned upscale consumers. Then the recession hit. Upscale consumers disappeared. Starbucks weakened. McDonald's moved in to steal former Starbucks customers. Starbucks responded by going downscale. That seemed to work. Now: Starbucks plunges even further into hobodom.