Gen Z eats fast food like no other generation. From a love for spicy food to constant snacking, these are 8 traits that define their dining habits.

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Take a look inside Wendy's tech-focused new-look restaurants. To collect a mobile order you park in a dedicated spot and collect your food from a pickup shelf.

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Wendy's now competes with Cheerios for breakfast customers as much as it competes with other chain restaurants, its CMO says

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Breakfast promotion.

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A manager at a Pennsylvania Wendy's invented a fake employee and pocketed wages of $20,000, police say

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The woman worked at a Wendy's in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

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Wendy's customers could soon order from an AI chatbot at its drive-thru that's been trained to recognize customer lingo like 'biggie bags' and 'JBC'

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Wendy's is introducing a new AI chatbot to take customer's orders at one of its restaurants.

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Snack wraps are coming back — just not to McDonald's

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Wendy's spring menu, including a new Grilled Chicken Ranch Wrap

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Dunkin' rolls out breakfast tacos as competition heats up for fast food morning grub

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  • Dunkin' added breakfast tacos to its menu on March 22.
  • The move comes as McDonald's expanded its test of serving Krispy Kreme doughnuts in Kentucky. 
  • Taco Bell and Wendy's are also leaning into breakfast. 

Fast-food breakfast wars are heating up again.

Wendy's is once again slashing plans for ghost kitchen locations — delivering a blow to struggling Reef Technology

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Ghost kitchen Reef prepares Wendy's fast food menu through a licensing partnership. Wendy's said it no longer plans to grow rapidly through delivery-only models.

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