Stanley's last shift at his fast food job takes an unexpected turn.

"Engaging images accompany information about the McDonald's Corporation. The combination of high-interest subject matter and narrative text is intended for students in grades 3 through 7"-- Provided by publisher.

Most any honest person can own up to harboring at least one fast-food guilty pleasure. In Drive-Thru Dreams, Adam Chandler explores the inseparable link between fast food and American life for the past century. The dark underbelly of the industry's largest players has long been scrutinized and gutted, characterized as impersonal, greedy, corporate, and worse. But, in unexpected ways, fast food is also deeply personal and emblematic of a larger than...

Kevin Spoon and Mason Mintz walk six miles to attend the opening of a new Spaceburger restaurant.

Calling all dudes to buckle up, because the dynamic fast-food duo is coming back in Good Burger 2! Join Dexter Reed and the OG cashier Ed as they reunite at the present-day Good Burger with a hilarious new crew of employees. The laughs are bigger, the antics are crazier, and this time, Ed and Dex are on a mission to save the entire fast-food industry! Brace yourselves for cameo appearances from the original Good Burger and new faces! This extra-crispy...

In the fifteen years, the fast-food industry has undergone a makeover. Today, chain restaurants tout food that's healthy, organic, and natural. Filmmaker Morgan Spurlock explores this new reality with an approach even more immersive and subversive than that used for his first film: he sets out to open his own chicken franchise. We follow him every step of the way, from raising poultry and conjuring recipes to designing the brand and scouting a location....

"Part travelogue, part culinary history, all capitalist critique-comedian Jamie Loftus's debut, Raw Dog, will take you on a cross-country road trip in the summer of 2021, and reveal what the creation, culture, and class influence of hot dogs says about America now. Hot dogs. Poor people created them. Rich people found a way to charge fifteen dollars for them. They're high culture, they're low culture, they're sports food, they're kids' food, they're...

"One Big Mac and a side of fries, please! This title is packed with the history of McDonald's through narrative nonfiction, informative sidebars, Fun Facts, and more."

This title unwraps the life of Panda Express founder Peggy Cherng! Readers will follow Cherng's journey from her early work as an electrical engineer to establishing a nation-wide chain of restaurants with her husband Andrew. A timeline, fast facts, infographics, a glossary, an index and color photos supplement easy-to-read text. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Checkerboard Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing,...

"Beginning with just five feet of counter space on Coney Island in 1916, Nathan's Famous - based on the basic principles of quality ingredients, hard work and a price everyone could afford -soon stretched across the globe, launching the hotdog as an American food staple and Nathan Handwerker to national fame. But the story behind the dog is even tastier. Fleeing Eastern Europe as the shadow of WWI looms large with nothing but twenty dollars in his...