Fast Food

If we don’t make it apparent enough, The Takeout is really proud of being based in Chicago. We love our local…

The Lenten season requires you to suspend your disbelief. Not sure about a skinny 33-something dude turning down a…

Bagels have been very much on my mind this week after Food & Wine published a list of the best bagels and America…

Chipotle has finally come out with a quesadilla. It’s about damn time, huh? The chain has mastered burritos, burrito…

It has been 562 days since Popeyes fired the first shot in the Chicken Sandwich Wars, and for 561 days, the world…

Next week, after well over a year of crispity-crunchity anticipation, McDonald’s is finally entering the Chicken…

I’ve worked really hard to establish myself as The Takeout’s resident Fast Fish Evangelist. I’m not even a…

A certain wintry chill descends when people argue about dumb stuff on the internet. A phantasmic voice seems to…

Detroit-style pizza was once locked down to the state of Michigan, but recently, thanks to chains like Jet’s, it’s…

The other day we learned that Boston Market is making a comeback and is on pace to open two new locations per week…

On January 4 (which feels like a long time ago), Chipotle announced the release of its new cilantro-lime…

The delicate thing about marketing the debut of a big, splashy fast food item is that you sometimes have to…

It’s nice to get out of the house, isn’t it? This was something I used to take for granted when I was moaning about…

Now that it’s been proven that plant-based meats won’t kill human beings or the fast food business, it seems logical…

McDonald’s new all-day breakfast pastries have finally arrived, just in time to fatten us up for hibernation. The…

We, staff writers Dennis Lee and Lillian Stone, have been on the job for about 4.75 days, which was the perfect…

For years now, McDonald’s has been teasing us with the idea of spicy chicken. Rumors came back from overseas and…

As I’ve grown older I’ve developed a collection of personal philosophical tenets, which I hope to capitalize on…

When Dairy Queen introduced the Blizzard in 1985, it was a big step forward in ice cream shop innovation. Before,…

There was a span of years when, from Monday to Friday, the only thing I had the time to grab for lunch each day was…