COFFEE

McDonald's was the most-visited fast-food restaurant in America in April 2013.

A Starbucks in Hong Kong was caught using water from a bathroom to brew coffee for its customers.

New York's top court will give its two cents on the brewing controversy over Starbucks baristas' tip jars.

India’s tea and coffee manufacturers have staged a bitter rivalry over which liquid is the national drink.

Wrigley said it would take Alert Energy, its caffeine-laced gum, off store shelves due to pressure from the FDA.

San Francisco Attorney Dennis Herrera is suing the energy-drink company, citing ingredients that are unsafe for young consumers.

Starbucks will slash the price of its bagged coffee by one-tenth to be competitive with other top bagged-coffee brands.

A Hermes T-shirt priced at more than $90,000 and seven other items with ridiculous price tags.

A New York coffee shop is boasting that it has the “world’s strongest coffee” called “Death Wish,” with 200 percent more caffeine than the average cup of joe. But many are wondering, is it safe to consume?

Starbucks plans to open at least 3,000 stores over the next five years in the Americas, half in the U.S.

The New York Times has struck a new deal with Starbucks to offer coffee drinkers limited access to the paper's stories.

Big food brands such as Smucker, Jif and Folgers are thinking outside the box to keep 2013 sales rising.

Mountain Dew is bringing soda to breakfast. The soda company hopes that the breakfast beverage will be a staple of the morning much like coffee, tea, eggs and toast. Kickstart will be “refreshing and energizing take on your morning routine” according to PepsiCo.

Seattle coffee giant Starbucks is expected to report a 14 percent gain in earnings per share on an 11 percent sales increase.

Dunkin’ Donuts may have over 10,000 different locations across the globe but one place that features zero Dunkin’ Donuts locations is California. That will soon change as Dunkin’ Donuts announced it will open 150 locations in Southern California in 2015.

There are 52 Starbucks locations in France, with 39 in Paris itself. To say that some Parisians are not impressed would be an understatement.

A study from the American Academy of Neurology indicates that diet soda and other sweetened drinks were linked to an increased risk of depression. Coffee, on the other hand, was associated with lowering the risk of depression slightly.

One customer's random act of kindness inspired 227 other Tim Hortons patrons to pay for the order of the person behind them in the drive-thru line at a Winnipeg location.

Starbucks' new Costa Rica Finca Palmilera coffee costs $7 per cup and $40 per half-pound.

Dunkin' Donuts made a claim declaring its coffee the "Best in America,," but was denied by the patent and trademark office.

Living Essentials 5-Hour Energy drinks have been cited in the deaths of 13 people in the past four years, according to reports received by the Food and Drug Administration.