The current design model for fast food restaurants, such as Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, and McDonald’s, is a boxy, nondescript building with a prominent drive-thru and limited seating inside. This is a far ...

For decades, bright, playful and oddly-shaped fast-food restaurants dotted the roadside along America's highways. You'd drive by Howard Johnson's with its orange roofs and then pass Pizza Hut's ...

The 1960s were a formative decade for the fast food industry, with many chains experimenting with drive-thrus, themed restaurants, and signature menu items. Some of these pioneers grew rapidly, while ...

Decades before McDonald's, there was White Castle. Historians credit the hamburger chain with creating the modern fast-food industry as we know it. The legend goes that White Castle founder Walter ...