Fast food is getting expensive. What used to be a cheap and easy pick-up is starting to break the bank, which may have changed some of your spending habits this year. But just because the typical ...

Fast-food restaurants, once the first stop for Americans looking to get at least one meal in before a long workday, are fighting to win back customers. Breakfast sales across the fast-food sector have ...

Fast-food restaurants used to be a place where you could spend very little money and get a great deal of food in return. These chains get more expensive by the day now, but there are still dishes on ...

Anyone who thinks fast food is now prohibitively expensive isn’t paying enough attention to the deals. Yes, most fast food meals out there will run you close to $15, which we admit is expensive. Why ...

The days of "fast food" being "cheap food" are long gone, and prices seem to always be increasing. We can blame that phenomenon on rising inflation, and while a trip to a McDonald's drive-thru is ...

For decades, fast food functioned as the pressure valve in the American food budget, the place families could turn when ...

According to a report by the USDA’s Economic Research Service, spending on food away from home increased by 89% from 1997 to 2022, while spending on food at home went up by 53% in the same period.

A group of millennials recently took to Reddit to reminisce about how cheap fast food used to be, as well as lament how much the price has risen since their childhoods. On a popular subreddit filled ...

Corin Cesaric is a Flex Editor at CNET. She received her bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Missouri-Columbia. Before joining CNET, she covered crime at People Magazine and ...