But the darkest question, raised by the poisonings of the past month, concerns the hamburger's standing in America.
The uptick is especially notable when compared to the world's biggest hamburger maker, McDonald's (nyse: MCD - news - people ), whose same-store sales are flat, according to Morgan Stanley analyst Michael Sherrick.
There was the city's first hamburger shop, which the locals refer to as McDonald's.
Shares in the Wendy's hamburger chain rose slightly after it posted a bump in net income for the fourth quarter and stood by its outlook for the year.
The account tweeted that the company had been sold to rival hamburger chain McDonald's.
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The standard-bearer of the hamburger, McDonald's, is bowing to local demand and is opening a meat-free restaurant in India.
Customers had to sign a waiver before they could tuck into the bar's signature habanero hamburger.
One of the best known franchises is the McDonald's chain of hamburger restaurants.
McDonald's, a hamburger chain, said it might be forced to drop its (already meagre) health-insurance coverage because of onerous provisions in the new health laws.
In 1986 London Greenpeace, a bunch of environmental activists (unconnected with the better-known Greenpeace), published a leaflet denouncing McDonald's, the hamburger chain, as a hazard to human health, a killer of animals, a destroyer of the environment and a mean employer.
The Jamaat-i-Islami, which won 16 seats, may have firm views about the role of women and be opposed to American-style hamburger bars in Dhaka's city centre, but it does not indulge in the same level of anti-western talk as its counterparts in Pakistan.
So did Ramon's, an upscale hamburger place Kroc opened in Chicago and Beverly Hills.
Just like Brits embraced the hamburger, they want a U.S.-style automatic disclosure by foreign banks and tax authorities on U.K. citizens.
Anybody in Britain old enough to remember the hideous Wimpy, a travesty of a hamburger, must recall the arrival of McDonald's with gratitude.
He took a degree in Texas, in economics and politics, and had his first taste of (the hamburger) business as a trainee at McDonald's.
In the past year, 36 baseball clubs used Beanies in successful attendance campaigns, as did McDonald's in one of its most profitable hamburger campaigns ever.
The hamburger has become the latest oddity to surface from Myhrvold's quixotic venture.
But I like to think I had the last laugh: When the place was threatened with destruction in 2004 to make way for a Peet's Coffee Shop, community outrage was so great it's one of the last iconic post-war hamburger stands on the old Route 66 that the city fathers decided to declare it a local landmark.
Mr. BROWN: I don't think that's a federal government responsibility to provide ice to keep my hamburger meat in my freezer or refrigerator fresh.
Officials on Spain's Canary Islands said they had seized one metric ton of hamburger patties with varying levels of horse meat ranging from 5 percent to 40 percent per patty.
Although the safety of food served in restaurants falls outside the HSE's remit, the case of an establishment which refused to serve a hamburger rare was cited by the HSE as one of a number of "crackpot cases".
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Jason isn't old enough to fully understand black and white, why his grandmother was sent to jail for ordering a hamburger at a Woolworth lunch counter in 1960, or how an ill-used child's soul might never find its way back home.
Such is the intent, under the guise of convenience, of such foods as Ore Ida's blue French fries, Eastern Foods' purple pizzas, and ConAgra's Kid Cuisine, which features TV dinners like the Sandwich Builder a hamburger meal with a patty shaped like a house and cookies that look like bricks.
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