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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — White Castle, a 90-year-old hamburger chain known for its square "slider" burgers, is sipping on the idea of offering alcoholic beverages as it tests beer and wine sales at a restaurant in Indiana. The food famously craved by stoners in the 2004 movie "Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle" can be had with a glass of wine or a domestic or seasonal beer at a Lafayette, Ind., restaurant that fuses a conventional White Castle with a new concept for the company called Blaze Modern BBQ. Wine costs $4.50 and beers start at $3.

SO, after much anticipation, I finally had the chance to try Five Guys Burgers and Fries. And after hearing and reading all the hype, I was definetly...What would be the correct word?...UNIMPRESSED!!!

The king is dead: Burger King creepy mascot dethroned in image makeover for struggling chain By DAILY MAIL REPORTER Last updated at 8:31 PM on 19th August 2011 Comments (-) Add to My Stories Share The king is dead, long live the king. Not words your likely to hear at Burger King however who are losing its long-time mascot so it can refocus its marketing to reach new customers. The spooky Burger King 'King' is retiring after many years of service along with a makeover of the struggling food chain as it joins what seems to be a growing trend...

Chefs at the Alameda County Fair will attempt to grill a 625 pound hamburger on July 2. They'll cook up the gigantic ground beef patty on the world's largest barbeque. It will contain a whopping 1,375,000 calories and will be served up in 99 cent bites.

First Lady Michelle Obama hopes to curb childhood obesity by teaching children about nutrition and exercise. “There’s no expert on this planet who says that the government telling people what to do actually does any good with this issue,” she says.But local government officials around the country have already adopted a more forceful tact, whether it’s New York’s salt assault, San Francisco’s frown at Happy Meals or, most recently, South LA’s all-out ban on new fast-food restaurants.Reason.tv spoke with Los Angeles City Councilman Bernard Parks, one of the architects behind the ban, who argues that “in order to force choice into the market, we have...

There may be no food more American than the burger. And according to meat lovers, there may be no health code regulation less American than North Carolina's rare and medium rare burger ban. From Winston-Salem to Nags Head, meat eaters are unable to order their burgers rare or even medium rare thanks to a state restriction that requires restaurants to cook ground beef to an internal temperature of 155 degrees Fahrenheit. That's enough heat to sufficiently kill dangerous bacteria like E. coli, according to state health officials. But it's also enough heat to kill all of the flavor, according to...

  If you know anyone from Southern California, you've probably heard them wax poetic about In-N-Out Burger. The legendary family-run chain is now winning over legions of new fans, but farther east than ever before as two new restaurants open in the north Texas towns of Frisco and Allen. Cars lined up as far as two miles for the drive-thrus, and fans spent the night in the parking lot, for the chance to get a bite of the first In-N-Out burgers east of Arizona. Danielle DeInnocentes of The Colony, Texas, broke into tears after she bit into a Double-Double, a famous...

KANSAS CITY, MO— McDonald's, the largest fast food chain in the world, will hire 50,000 people in upcoming days. The quest to hire new employees started April 19, which is National Hiring Day. McDonald's will be hiring 500 new employees in the Kansas City

5 guys just moved into town which is better In-N-Out Burgers or Five Guys? From what I hear 5 Guys is better but for fries, shakes, burger taste and prices. What say you all.

Burger King Corp. is eliminating 413 corporate and field staff positions, or less than 2 percent of its work force, the restaurant chain said Monday.

Obama Burgers Come to BishkekNovember 1, 2010 - 8:52am, by Natasha Yefimov Kebabistan Eating in Kyrgyzstan US President Barack Obama has come to be known for his salt-of-the-earth taste in food and drink: coconut custard pie in small-town Ohio, Kumbaya beers on the White House porch, down-home "hell burgers" with Russian President Dmitri Medvedev. Now, if the president deigns to visit the capital of Kyrgyzstan, he'll have a chance to sample the local version of real American bar food -- surrounded by endless portraits of himself. The Obama Bar & Grill opened in Bishkek last month to accolades from expats...

D.C. Superior Court Judge John M. Mott ruled Tuesday afternoon that the fumes from Rogue States’ burger grills were a nuisance to the nearby law firm Steptoe & Johnson and must be abated immediately. It’s now up to Rogue States owner Raynold Mendizabal and the property landlord, TRT, to resolve the situation. In April, Rogue installed a system to cut down on fumes in response to the law firm’s suit. Although an improvement, the nuisance conditions remained and as reported by Tim Carman of the Washington City Paper, the judge explained that “the nuisance is [still] well beyond what is...

It's a classic David and Goliath story: A white-shoe law firm staffed with hundreds of D.C.'s most-powerful lawyers has moved to shutter a hamburger eatery on the grounds that the lawyers didn't like the aroma of cooking meat wafting into their offices. So far, Goliath is winning.

I’ve been planning a stop for some time, but my friend’s recent trip from O.C. to D.C. convinced me that it was time get to Five Guys. Let the comparisons begin.

ST. LOUIS, Jul 13, 2009 (BUSINESS WIRE) ----Summer gets saucy this year with Hardee's(R) introduction of the new French Dip Thickburger(R). A perfect "pas de deux" of beef, the French Dip Thickburger is available at participating Hardee's beginning today and is a meaty combination of a 100% Black Angus Beef Thickburger patty topped with thinly sliced roast beef and melting Swiss cheese served with a cup of au jus for dipping. To celebrate this delicious new meat-on-meat creation, Hardee's is sending four gorgeous French Maids (Sophie, Antoinette, Gabrielle and Isabelle) to cruise the country on segways. These beauties may not...

The Triple and Quadruple Bypass Burgers are advertised at Heart Attack Grill in Chandler, Arizona June 17, 2009. The restaurant is known for their hospital theme and enormous burgers.

Just for entertainment: I saw this on Friday but forgot to post it. The blog "A Hamburger Today" has been running these insane burger creations for a couple years, and The Big McFatty Melt is just a new one on that theme. http://aht.seriouseats.com/archives/2009/05/the-big-mcfatty-melt.htmlhttp://aht.seriouseats.com/archives/2009/05/the-big-mcfatty-melt.html

It's like this: When you want a burger, you have to have a burger. In this state of mind, President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden took a short - but wholly noticeable - motorcade ride from the White House to Virginia and pulled into a small, independent burger joint called Ray's Hell Burger. SNIP Each fetched cash from his pocket and paid, and then the pair stood like the rest and waited for their number to be called before going to a table. SNIP

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. – Well, at least the salsa is low-cal. The West Michigan Whitecaps, a minor league baseball team, will be offering up major league cholesterol, carbohydrates and calories in an enormous hamburger being added to the menu this year at the Fifth Third Ballpark. The 4-pound, $20 burger features five beef patties, five slices of cheese, nearly a cup of chili and liberal doses of salsa and corn chips, all on an 8-inch sesame-seed bun. That's a lot of dough!

Beer and burgers hold up trafficPublished: Feb. 17, 2009 at 4:45 PM SALT LAKE CITY, Feb. 17 (UPI) -- The Utah Highway Patrol said a truck lost its load of hamburgers on Interstate 15 Tuesday and another truck dumped beer on Interstate 84. Trooper Cameron Roden said the driver of the semi-tractor trailer rig carrying the hamburgers fell asleep behind the wheel on his way out of the Salt Lake City area just after 5 a.m. Tuesday and struck a wall and an overhead sign. The hamburger patties in the back of the trailer spilled out onto the north and...