Is there anything more comforting than fried chicken?

Over 30 takeaways and restaurants including Eddie Rockets, Subway and Burritos & Blues have signed up to the new service.

Forecourt operator Applegreen said it will "continue to evaluate new opportunities" for growth, as an analyst estimated it may have €50m to spend on new acquisitions.

In the Racing 92 training complex at Plessis-Robinson in Paris, there they were, writes Ronan O’Gara

In 1988 Nike told us to ‘Just Do It’. Thirty years on, that ad campaign remains one of the most successful of all time. From KitKat’s ‘Have a break’ to L’Oreal’s ‘Because you’re worth it’, Suzanne Harrington examines the power of a slogan.

KFC has been forced to close a raft of stores after a new delivery contract with DHL resulted in chicken shortages across the country.

International takeaway ordering website Just Eat has said it plans to work more with branded restaurant chains, knocking its shares despite an upgrade to its full-year revenue forecast.

International fast food giant McDonald’s has posted its biggest jump in global sales at established restaurants in five years, helped by stronger traffic worldwide and US initiatives including drink specials and custom sandwiches.

You know when people say you shouldn’t get a dog because what will you do when you want to go on holiday? Turns out it’s the same for teenagers, except I have yet to find a kennel that would take them, writes Suzanne Harrington.

Next Saturday, Cork will be the vegan capital of Ireland when it hosts Vegfest at the City Hall. Now there’s a sentence I never thought I’d write.

A Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) has shut after a burning car rolled through the driveway and set the building on fire.

A major holder of franchises for the Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) brand in Ireland and the UK has seen its holdings in the Republic plunge into the red, with losses nearing €45m.

Google has taken over from Apple as the world's most valuable brand in an annual ranking amid signs the technology giant has "reached saturation point".

I’m writing this just a few dozen hours before Barack Obama steps down and I’m reminded of how often he and his wife seemed to talk about food.

KFC China has become one of the first fast-food restaurants in the world to use facial recognition technology for serving customers

Trish Dromey meets the Dublin firm making an impact by stopping fraudsters illegally using companies’ logos.

Suzanne Harrington shares her Christmas to do list

Storm’s favourite way to stay fit is to go for a long walk or run outside in the fresh air.

Trump could be a baboon and he would still be in the race, just as long as he was a baboon with a penis, Alison O’Connor.

Muhammad Ali has made his final journey through his home town as thousands of mourners along the route pumped their fists and chanted “Ali! Ali!” for the former heavyweight champion of the world known simply as ‘The Greatest’.

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Fast food chain KFC launched an investigation after a BBC researcher was served ice with bacteria from faeces on it.

Irish Euromillions winner Dolores McNamara is in the running to buy a massive retail park in her native Limerick.

If you were diagnosed with cancer, you were goosed. Gone. Ready to pop your clogs. Not anymore, writes Terry Prone

Cafe goers need to “check nutritional advice” as a report reveals up to 25 teaspoons of sugar in some hot drinks. British campaign group, Action on Sugar, analysed 131 hot drinks sold by big brand coffee shops and revealed one-in-three contain nine teaspoons of sugar or more, making them as sugary as Coca Cola.

Some 35 restaurants across China have been found illegally using opium poppies as seasoning, one of the more unusual practices being investigated by the country’s food regulators.

Official economic numbers are famously rubbery. China’s exports to Hong Kong in December rose 30% from the previous month and overtook shipments to the US and the European Union, according to customs data released earlier this week which economists put down to fake invoicing by mainland businesses trying to evade currency restrictions.

Following years of food scandals, from milk contaminated with an industrial chemical to the use of industrial dyes in eggs, and soya sauce made from hair clippings swept off salon floors, China has finally brought out a range of food safety regulations and legal penalties to clean up its food industry.

Should my kids eat meat or not? As more people choose not to eat meat for moral and environmental reasons, more parents are deciding to rear their children as vegetarians. We hear from two ‘veggie’ mums — one didn’t feed her young children meat and another who decided the choice was theirs

IT’S hard to leave a place where the word for rubbish bin is ‘poubelle’. I mean, come on. Poubelle. Could there be a prettier word for such a utilitarian object? A thing stuffed with fag butts, rotting sandwiches, ice cream sticks, sweet wrappers, old newspapers and far worse — and yet still sounds like something from fairyland. Like Tinkerbell’s French cousin.

Real Madrid star Cristiano Ronaldo has sold his image rights to Singaporean tycoon Peter Lim, owner of Primera Division club Valencia.

Charles remembers ’grandfather I never had’ Mountbatten in Sligo speech; Charity chief and business manager reveal con details; and the DOs and DON’Ts of voting in Friday’s referenda. Just some of the latest and most read stories on irishexaminer.com.

KFC makes really good chicken. You should try it sometime. It's really good. We're not so gone on the new chips though.

A planner with An Bord Pleanála has said the “siting of fast-food outlets is a significant planning issue as it is a significant public health issue”, as plans for a fast-food restaurant near two schools was refused for the second time.

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CHINA: China’s annual Lunar New Year variety show, which mocked unmarried women and suggested female officials provide sexual favours to get promoted, has led to online outrage and some state media to urge more attention to discrimination against women.

A €2.48m tax settlement with the revenue authorities in the UK last year hit profits at Michael Herbert’s KFC franchise business there.

AN iconic building in Foxrock, Co Dublin, which hit the headlines in July over a rent dispute has been bought, in an off-market deal, for over €1.5m as, separately, a UK investor Development Securities also swept up two other Dublin buys, for a combined €16m.