Sentences with phrase «own hamburger»

I don't dream of a world with 99 - cent hamburgers available at any roadside fast food place.

Not just because people want better tasting hamburgers, but because it is the right thing to do for shareholders.

The hamburger chain that serves billions and billions around the world announced Wednesday it'll soon boost the minimum wages it pays workers in the U.S. stores it operates directly.

The iconic arches were born from arch-shaped signs on the sides of a franchised «walk - up hamburger stand» in the early 1960s.

«We have to push the envelope and ensure we're not just some some cookie cutter [stadium] offering hamburgers, hotdogs, nachos and pretzels.»

A cynic might wonder if the Brazilian owners of the American hamburger chain that bought Tim Hortons in 2014 are sensitive about retaining their new brand's Canadianness.

Burger King has a new challenge for the bravest fast foodies: It is now selling a Whopper with red hamburger buns.

Every time I'd make a little, I'd start something else, from martini bars to a hamburger restaurant.

Two years ago, Brin revealed that he had shelled out $ 250,000 of his own money to fund the creation of a synthetic hamburger.

Maybe it's time for the biggest burger chain in the world to downplay the hamburger and focus on chicken instead.

So when the company announced in February that it was giving up payday lending in Ontario — by far its largest market — some were understandably confused; this would be like McDonald's giving up not just hamburgers, but food.

It also had the lowest rank in food quality of all rated hamburger chains in the Nation's Restaurant News 2014 Consumer Picks survey.

«There's spit in all the hamburgers!»

Now, imagine if you took all the drama of the early days of a world - changing company and added hamburgers.

But customers were already voicing their discontent with the 60 - year - old hamburger chain because of its plans to relocate its corporate headquarters from Miami to Canada in a deal that could lower its taxes.

Keep in mind that the 85 - year - old also likes to eat hamburgers, steaks, hash browns and root beer floats.

They grew their business to four carts before opening the first Carl's Drive - In Barbecue in 1945 and adding hamburgers to the menu.

If you (a) forego 10 hamburgers to purchase an investment; (b) receive dividends which, after tax, buy two hamburgers; and (c) receive, upon sale of your holdings, after - tax proceeds that will buy eight hamburgers, then (d) you have had no real income from your investment, no matter how much it appreciated in dollars.

Maybe you know the feeling, and that voice in your head whispering, «You're better than this,» as you choke down another bite of desiccated grey hamburger meat.

Lots of websites and apps feature the icon known as the «hamburger,» three parallel horizontal dashes usually at the top corner of an app or website.

Does the idea of biting into a juicy hamburger make your mouth water?

He also has said he is betting against hamburger chain restaurants as the industry condenses, and in September announced a short against Continental Resources.

All you're capable of is opening the Twitter app and typing a singular hamburger emoji.

Americans will fire up the grill, spending $ 388 million on hamburger patties, $ 389 million on barbecue chicken, $ 133 million on buns and $ 37 million just on ketchup — not to mention other provisions on Independence Day.

Thirty years ago, when she was a medical student helping to create in - vitro fertilization babies at Toronto's East General Hospital, and never thought she'd be asked whether or not we should eat hamburgers made in test tubes.

On the food side, McDonald's is putting its focus on improving its core items, like hamburgers.

«But the number one item consumed off premise is a hamburger,» pointing to the particular success that fast - food chains like McDonald's have had in selling their burgers to go.

Or if you've opted to pay for the wage increase by raising your prices, you'll have to explain why your hamburger costs several dollars more than the shop down the block.

For example, the opportunity cost of eating a hamburger is not eating a taco.

The carhop, who was also foreign, brought me a No. 1 hamburger and a large bag of ice instead of my low - ice drink.

In 1955, multi-mixer salesman Ray Kroc saw the future in hamburgers and opened the first McDonald's franchise location in Des Plaines, Ill..

But amid all the fuss about the soaring cost of low - grade hamburger meat, some observers have lost sight of the good news afoot at the premium end of the spectrum.

It goes like this: A long - time restaurant customer ordered his usual hamburger and asked for an extra pickle, which he always got in the past.

But US Department of Agriculture rules don't require hamburger producers to tell customers where the meat in any individual package may have come from.

Last July, 30,000 consumers took part in a Consumer Reports study that ranked McDonald's signature offering — the Big Mac — as America's worst hamburger.

«The hamburger maker is looking for a precise amount of fat content,» Michael Moss, a journalist who wrote a Pulitzer Prize - winning piece on the meat industry, told Tech Insider.

«But that has to be pure, it can not be burger,» Mansour Samadpour, a scientist at IEH Laboratories who tests food products including hamburger meat, told Tech Insider.

To critics who say that small businesses will lose out if people can compare prices online, and that the businesses may be forced to charge prices that are too low just to compete, Mason said: «Even if a business might make a little less on each hamburger, they'll sell enough additional hamburgers to far outweigh the reduced margin.

In order to balance lean and fatty cuts and try to source the cheapest meat, hamburger makers don't just rely on a network of American slaughterhouses, Mansour adds.

With mobile couponing, Mason predicts a world where the price of, for example, a hamburger will depend on the time of day — what the demand is at any given moment, will dictate what coupons local businesses will offer.

A couple of cheap gadgets like a child - safe knife helped her to do just that, and she even set her 9 - year - old the task of grilling his own hamburger (with supervision, of course).

To complete the exercise yourself, you'll need a piece of paper divided into three sections horizontally (hamburger style, not hotdog style).

«It leaves consumers absolutely in the dark about the sourcing of the meat in a hamburger,» Moss said.

Adams also pointed Tech Insider to a blog post from the industry group Beef Checkoff, which confirms that the meat in one hamburger can come from many different sources.

Year it began franchising: 1982 Number of franchises: 546 Startup costs: $ 225,000 to $ 358,000 Overall 2012 Franchise 500 rank: 79 Hungry Howie's got its start nearly four decades ago in a converted hamburger shop in Taylor, Mich..

Khosla, a partner at Khosla Ventures, said that his firm has invested in a company that created a hamburger app that allows users specify exactly how they want their hamburger prepared.

Its most recent foray outside of its traditional menu are Angus burgers, a premium line of hamburgers that were introduced across North America in the past two years.

Jack Cowin made his first fortune on fried chicken and hamburgers, but it's the third part of the American fast - food trifecta that's proving somewhat problematic of late.

Puzder's treatment of women has also been questioned, related in part to widely criticized ads that feature scantily - clad female celebrities eating hamburgers.

This reduces the need for a middle person, such as a cashier, who could potentially introduce error into the process — i.e. give you a Double Double Cheeseburger when all you wanted was a hamburger.