Hello and welcome to Money Talks, a special extra podcast from Slate Money, where we have

conversations about money with brilliant people. I'm Emily Peck. I'm the co-host of Slate Money

and a national correspondent at Axios, and I'm here today with Heather Haddon. Hi, Heather.

Hey, thanks so much for having me.

I'm so excited to talk to you.

Heather covers restaurants for the Wall Street Journal,

and part of that involves covering the fast food industry,

which is, I realized as I was preparing for this show,

an industry that I am obsessed with.

I don't cover it.

And I hardly ever eat at fast food places, but I am very interested in fast food.

I think it says so much about so much of just everything, America.

So, Heather, I want to talk to you about a lot of what you're covering, just

like the current state of the industry, considering price pressures. I want to talk about

McDonald's and it's like return to the value meal. I want to understand what the hell

Starbucks is up to right now. And I hope we have time to maybe get into the reason we reached out to you in the

first place, which was Chick-fil-A and its intense drive-through strategy. Yes, they have a

crazy drive-thru strategy. Okay. So, yeah, that's all coming up on Slate Money Talks.

Why are businesses like HelloVet choosing Apple products and services?

So we started the business two years ago. We had a few people who were used to PCs and this was their first foray into Macs. But it's been super smooth getting everyone

onto those devices and everyone seems really, really happy. Find out how Mac can help you run and

grow your business at apple.com forward slash hello vet. I don't even know where to start. I guess I'll

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