Food & Services

In a former center of steelmaking and textiles in Pennsylvania, Donald Trump’s promise of tighter borders resonates. But hundreds of jobs have been preserved or expanded in the region due to an unlikely source: Mexico.

A fast-food fight is pitting McDonald’s against Florence officials, who are trying to keep the chain from opening a new outlet in the shadow of the Italian city’s centuries-old Duomo.

McDonald’s Corp. beat expectations for global sales growth in the third quarter, but the burger giant’s key U.S. market, fanning speculating that big menu changes could follow.

British American Tobacco PLC’s $47 billion offer for Reynolds American Inc. shows the rising value the U.S. holds for the shrinking global tobacco industry.

Metropoulos & Co., which brought Hostess Brands out of liquidation three years ago, is the first outside investor in Utz Quality Foods, which makes potato chips, pretzels and cheese snacks under several brands.

Kellogg is buying a maker of Latin American snacks for $429 million, as it continues to expand into emerging markets.

Regulators in Shanghai slapped U.S. meat supplier OSI Group and a local subsidiary with more than $3.6 million in fines, after a bid by the company to fight back against allegations of selling expired meat to fast-food chains ended in failure.

New York City has convened a group of restaurant leaders, called the NYC Food & Beverage Hospitality Council, in the hope that they can help it weather some of the most pressing issues facing the industry.

Chefs and home cooks are shaking their heads over federal recommendations to reduce sodium intake to the equivalent of one teaspoon of table salt a day.

Tyson Foods Inc. is voluntarily pulling chicken nuggets off the market because they might contain pieces of hard plastic.